Addy01
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Post by Addy01 on May 31, 2016 2:20:10 GMT
How big are you guys on recycling...?
And my office doesn't really do any recycling, it is too packed to have a bin is (we really need to move to a bigger office)
and I'm in charge of the pantry, keeping the food and drinks in stock - and I'll bring the recyclable home to sort them (plastic bags v everything else).
For 'everything else', Australia's got a bin for recycling, but it's not sorted, you just dump any recyclable there (unlike Japan where they sort anything out) . And for the 'Plastic bagd', there's a bin dedicated for plastic bag recycle at the supermarkets. that's where i bin the bags when i go do my grocery shopping.
Sooo just wondering if anyone is as bat-sh** crazy as me, to be bring their recycles home to sort them out??
...Cause i think i'm the only one who's crazy enough to bother at the moment. -.- (and getting laughed at my colleague in the process)
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Post by ichthyophobia on May 31, 2016 6:50:58 GMT
I do bring my own recycling home, yeah. My work only has paper/cardboard recycling, so if I want to recycle anything else I have to take it home. But I don't do it for the entire office - that would involve a *lot* of dumpster diving, where I work.
A weird rule we have in my neighborhood, though, is that any recycling that used to contain food has to be thoroughly washed before it can be recycled. The recycling company themselves doesn't require it, but the problem is actually bears. Our regular-trash dumpster is bearproof in the extreme, but the one for recycling? Very much not. So anything that still has a food smell to it will attract bears, and they'll actually tear the dumpster apart to get at it. So we have to wash everything. Rules enforced by bear.
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Post by boogum on May 31, 2016 7:30:50 GMT
I only recycle stuff at home. I do all the paper recycling at work, cause it's part of my job, but I'm not going to go fishing in bins for recyclable items.
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Addy01
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Post by Addy01 on May 31, 2016 7:49:53 GMT
Haha just recycling the food wrapping and stuff, since I am in charge of the pantry and have to refill the snack box. I wldnt fish through the bin....dont know what's been through in there. Just that the previous person before me just chuck the biscuit wrappings in the bin. I always feel guilty whenever I did it..
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TinyTantei
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Post by TinyTantei on May 31, 2016 8:07:13 GMT
Recycling (and other eco-friendly practices) is somewhat mandatory in my city; grocery stores don't even have bags, paper or plastic. We have to bring our own canvas bags. Other than that, recycling bins are everywhere here, both on and off campus. Basically, if you don't know what goes where by graduation, you probably shouldn't have graduated.
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Addy01
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Post by Addy01 on May 31, 2016 11:41:42 GMT
That's awesome Tiny! Wish people here are more enthusiastic about recycling...
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Cesela
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Post by Cesela on May 31, 2016 12:30:42 GMT
My mum is a super recycler too. She named both her compost bins. Even cooes over them "Oh, you'll like this steak wont you~~? Grow big and strong". It's creepy as hell.
Growing up with that, it's hard not feeling guilty having to heap everything into one. Thankfully campus have recycling bins everywhere too. Even some for pure glass bottles and batteries.
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Post by dreamingfifi on Jun 1, 2016 4:37:47 GMT
Recycling options in Montana are pretty limited, especially if you live in a rural area. There are no recyclables pick-ups; you have to go to them. They're only available in the big cities. If you live in the countryside, you can't even get trash-trucks to come by. You have to burn it, and every few months take the ashes to the landfill yourself. The food waste just gets thrown in a heap called the "compost pile" and left to rot until it becomes soil, then you spread the soil on your garden. If you have animals, you let your animals pick through the compost too.
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Post by ichthyophobia on Jun 2, 2016 2:39:50 GMT
We can't get compost to work here... If it's not tightly contained, it smells too much like food and attracts bears, and if it's tightly contained enough that bears can't get in, it tends to catch fire - which we are NOT risking, considering how often our state catches fire without any extra encouragement. I'm kind of surprised the wildlife issue isn't a problem up where you are, Dreaming.
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Post by dreamingfifi on Jun 2, 2016 2:56:38 GMT
Bears are a problem in the more mountainous+forested parts of the state, but where I grew up - the biggest predators were foxes and raccoons. They were a bigger problem for our livestock, since we don't actually make much food waste.
Fire is a big problem in the forests in Montana, but much of Montana is too dry for forests, and is just sagebrush and hardy grass.
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