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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 17:23:22 GMT -5
It is no surprise that I buy a lot of alcohol, and now with my job having a full liquor license it gets mixed up with the groceries Anyways, my building have a recycling dumpster and I usually just the glasses/boxes there. But both NY and MA charge a recycling fee on each bottle which is $0.05. I also usually buy a 24 pack of water every time I play basketball (2-3 times/week) for the players and I get charged it then also but again just throw it in the dumpster. I was thinking about it, by not bringing those glasses/bottles back I have been throwing money down the drain. Yet, still not motivating enough for me to put it in my car, drive to my job and put them in the recycle machine. Lazy?
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Post by milee on Mar 6, 2013 17:24:51 GMT -5
It's not lazy to not want to waste $3 in gas and 1/2 hour of your time to get back a few nickles.
We recycle, but there's no charge on either end.
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Post by Malarky on Mar 6, 2013 17:39:30 GMT -5
Water bottles aren't subject to the bottle bill in MA, so no monetary loss there.
I just keep my empties with the rest of my recyclables, and toss them in the back of my vehicle if I'm going to be buying more. I think of it as being a downpayment on my next purchase.
We don't drink soda, if we did, I'd just stockpile them like I do beer bottles.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Mar 6, 2013 17:39:43 GMT -5
We recycle, but we don't have the nickels for dropping them off.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 17:43:49 GMT -5
Water bottles aren't subject to the bottle bill in MA, so no monetary loss there. I thought the same too but not all MA is the same I found out. When I buy water in Clinton or Worcester I get charged the $0.05 per bottle or $1.20 for a 24 packs. In Marlborough or Shrewsbury I don't get charged.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 17:45:00 GMT -5
Once every couple months I load up the car with empties. The net yield is about 8 dollars and a clean garage.
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Post by Malarky on Mar 6, 2013 17:46:19 GMT -5
Water bottles aren't subject to the bottle bill in MA, so no monetary loss there. I thought the same too but not all MA is the same I found out. When I buy water in Clinton or Worcester I get charged the $0.05 per bottle or $1.20 for a 24 packs. In Marlborough or Shrewsbury I don't get charged. That I did not know. I live east of you.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 18:03:50 GMT -5
You're working the time value of money angle. We don't "work" so we would be considered lazy and wasteful We do drag them down to the grocery store every few weeks, wait in line and get our $2.50 voucher. It's only good for 30 days and only valid at that particular market which we don't frequent but once a month. Therefore about half the time they expire before we use them. Today DH turned in a bunch of beer bottles, 2/3rds are from the 4-day stay of his college roommates (including the atty handling our tenant eviction). over $5! That's A LOT of beer bottles! ETA: the drill with the trip to the grocery store is for the CA CRV program. We do have a regular (and agressive) curbside recycling program for glass, paper, plastics with a value of 5 or lower as well as a greenwaste program which includes food scraps (I won't put meat or food contaminated with oil in it ) .
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Mar 6, 2013 18:07:20 GMT -5
Yes, we recycle and get curb service for it on certain days. There is a program to join if you want to get money back but when I heard what had to be done I decided it was too much trouble for just DH and I.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Mar 6, 2013 18:17:04 GMT -5
We recycle. Recycling is free and the recycling station is adjacent to the county . We take our own garbage there once a month and deal with the recycling then. It costs us about $10/mo for the .
Combining that with errands afterwards maximizes the use of the gas.
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Post by mollyanna58 on Mar 6, 2013 18:41:52 GMT -5
Since you would recycle at your job and you're going there anyway, then yes. It's not as if you have drive somewhere out of your way.
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 6, 2013 18:42:03 GMT -5
I recycle everything. We have giant green bins distributed by the city for each household. The bins are picked up every Tuesday. It doesn't cost anything. Soda and beer bottles are brought back to the store for rebates.
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Post by quince on Mar 6, 2013 18:53:20 GMT -5
We recycle. We don't generally drink carbonated or alcoholic beverages, so not so much with the $.10 deposit, although I've had a few in the last couple of weeks. We recycle anyway, curbside. We DO take glass milk jugs in for the credit- I think the deposit is a couple of bucks.
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Post by Abby Normal on Mar 6, 2013 19:24:39 GMT -5
In Oregon there is a 5 cent deposit when you buy any water or soda container. You have to return them to get your deposit back. Supposedly it encourages recycling. But there are so many people that HATE to return them. DS is a scout. Last year he went around our neighborhood with a flyer that said " Do you hate to return your bottles and cans- support a scout" He left a google voice number for people to call. They leave them out side and we just pick them up. He takes them back to the store for the money. Paid for his way to camp last year.- which was over $250.00.
Just about everything else goes into curbside recycling which is included with our garbage service.
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Post by lynnerself on Mar 6, 2013 19:39:54 GMT -5
In Oregon there is a 5 cent deposit when you buy any water or soda container. You have to return them to get your deposit back. Just about everything else goes into curbside recycling which is included with our garbage service. I'm in Oregon too. We have up to three dumpsters to put out on garbage day. Garabage, recylcling and green (garden) waste. The garbage can is actually the smallest of the three. And our city has recently opened up centralized outlets to return all containers with deposits. So now we can take everything there and not back to the grocery store. It's only a few blocks from my house. So every few months we go there. But it's not really the money that motivates us.
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Post by Sharon on Mar 6, 2013 20:28:23 GMT -5
In Oregon there is a 5 cent deposit when you buy any water or soda container. You have to return them to get your deposit back. Just about everything else goes into curbside recycling which is included with our garbage service. I'm in Oregon too. We have up to three dumpsters to put out on garbage day. Garabage, recylcling and green (garden) waste. The garbage can is actually the smallest of the three. And our city has recently opened up centralized outlets to return all containers with deposits. So now we can take everything there and not back to the grocery store. It's only a few blocks from my house. So every few months we go there. But it's not really the money that motivates us. Ditto on the Oregon thing. I actually pay extra for an extra yard debris can so I have four garbage cans. All cans and water bottles are returned to retrieve the deposit. There are so many groups who are collecting cans/bottles that people who aren't interested in feeding them into the machines usually just give them to the various church/little league/band/cheerleaders etc that are collecting. About once a month I get a flyer on my door letting me know when the group will be by or just a knock on the door but my bottle/can money is my mini fun/slush fund.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Mar 6, 2013 20:35:30 GMT -5
We do recycling with our trash service. Paper, cardboard, plastic, metal - but no glass. No deposits on bottles/cans here. We just put out the yellow recycling trash can along with our normal can. I've noticed we easily fill the recycling can each week since I try to really sort our trash well. We usually only have 1-2 bags of actual trash and most of that is diapers.
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Post by tcu2003 on Mar 6, 2013 21:20:56 GMT -5
Recycling is done with our trash service here. And we don't pay deposits for bottles, so everything goes in the recycle bin - glass, paper, plastic, and cardboard. We generally have mroe recycling than trash each week.
And green waste recycling sounds cool - I so wish that service were offered here!
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Post by Happy prose on Mar 6, 2013 21:36:11 GMT -5
We also don't pay a deposit in NJ. I really don't have too much to recycle, or regular garbage either. I hate making garbage. I only drink water (tap) and coffee, so I have about 2 coffee cans per month to recycle.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 6, 2013 21:42:37 GMT -5
I recycle with on my weekly trash day. It's part of what I am paying for.
In my state, we do pay a nickel deposit for bottles and cans. I keep them in the garage and when I get a bunch of them, I take them to the store. I certainly don't make an extra trip to return them.
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Post by swamp on Mar 6, 2013 21:50:44 GMT -5
There are bottle drives here all the time. I donate my returnable bottles. The kids will even pick the bottles up,at my house.
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 6, 2013 22:29:42 GMT -5
We also don't pay a deposit in NJ. I really don't have too much to recycle, or regular garbage either. I hate making garbage. I only drink water (tap) and coffee, so I have about 2 coffee cans per month to recycle. No paper or plastic, as in packaging? No metal, as in tin cans? It's impossible to only have two coffee cans to recycle in a month. ....unless you only go home to sleep and drink coffee. Black.
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Post by Formerly SK on Mar 6, 2013 23:02:25 GMT -5
WA state just announced for the first time ever that more waste was recycled than thrown in a landfill. We recycle and compost most everything. Curbside takes about half of it, the half they don't accept I collect in half a dozen different bins in the garage and when they get full I take them to a recycling facility. We produce 1-2 kitchen bags of garbage a month (family of four). It takes a bit of effort (like the time I collected about ten car seats from friends/family and found a place that would recycle them) but I feel better knowing I'm conserving resources - it's sort of my war support for the troops. When I purge the kids' toys I break them down into raw materials (as much as possible) and send them to the recycler. Anything salvageable from home repairs I take to Habitat for Humanity. I wish there was a market for Styrofoam meat trays. Our garbage at this point seems to be those (we get our meat at Costco) and plastic bags (the kinds that don't stretch like cereal box liners). If I could find an aftermarket recycling depot for those we'd have almost no garbage. We compost all non-animal food scraps as well as things like nose tissues, q-tips, shredded papers, etc.
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 6, 2013 23:35:10 GMT -5
I wish there was a market for Styrofoam meat trays. Our garbage at this point seems to be those (we get our meat at Costco) and plastic bags (the kinds that don't stretch like cereal box liners). If I could find an aftermarket recycling depot for those we'd have almost no garbage. --------------- We can't recycle styrofoam here, either, and it makes me angry. And pro-active. I complain to the manufacturers and stores. I like to think it's made a difference. There are a few places that used to automatically put everything from latkes to fish on a styrofoam tray and wrapping it in plastic before handing it to you. "Did I ASK for a styrofoam tray? You're already putting it in plastic." Now I hear them asking people and most people say no.
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Post by Formerly SK on Mar 6, 2013 23:55:48 GMT -5
We have a place where we can recycle block foam at. I used to take my styrofoam trays there as well and they accepted them. Then one time I went there with about a year's worth of trays and they said they didn't take them anymore (trays are a different kind of plastic than the molded styrofoam for packing). Anyway, I had to throw out ALL those trays I had been washing/stockpiling in my garage. It made me so sad.
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Mar 7, 2013 0:15:55 GMT -5
We're avid recyclers ... paper, plastic, cardboard, cat food cans, plastic bottles, soda cans. We even recycle plastic bags and light bulbs and batteries. We have curbside pickup and a special recycling can for most items. Cans/bottles get donated to the cat rescue .... they ask people to donate their recyclable cans/bottles and they turn then in for the $$.
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Post by bobosensei on Mar 7, 2013 1:20:05 GMT -5
Yes, but living in Germany it is mandatory. We get a teeny trash bin that is picked up twice a month. We have a giant bin for paper and cardboard that gets picked up once a month. We also recycle plastic and metal in yellow bags that get picked up once a month. Some places in germany also require that you compost your food scraps in biodegradable bags. My town does not, and as a result most of our "trash" is actually something that could be composted. I think most of our neighbors compost. I would compost if we had a larger yard. We rent and have a teeny yard and there is no where to compost. We do let our dogs eat a lot of the food scraps though which sometimes saves the smell in the garage and keeps the dogs happy As for glass most products you buy are charged a deposit that you get back at the store for credit on your next bill. It is enough money to make it worth it. For example a crate of beer or water will have a 3-4 euro deposit. Now the crate of water could cost you as few as 2 euro so the deposit is actually higher than the cost of the product. I even have 500 gram yogurt jars that cost 15 euro cents. We save everything up and drop it at the store before shopping. We also often end up with more heavy duty type plastic bottles that get a 15 or 25 cent return. I am a fanatic about it, but DH will sometimes throw them away behind my back. Or if he goes to a store that won't refund the particular brand he leaves the bottle outside the store (people will pick them up to take them somewhere else to collect the money). The only thing that isn't picked up curbside is glass. We recycle mainly wine bottles at one of two spots in town. They separate by color. The German Red Cross also has drop offs for used clothing and shoes at the same place.
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Post by cronewitch on Mar 7, 2013 2:53:37 GMT -5
I have some land so we compost yard waste. We save all metal for recycling for money. The recycling people pick up paper and plastics mixed in a rolling container every other week.
We don't have deposits so smash cans and save them until we have a truck full, ISO sometimes needs money so he sells aluminum and other metals when he needs a few dollars. He hates that I pay to have recycling taken away so won't give them anything valuable.
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Post by marvholly on Mar 7, 2013 5:47:12 GMT -5
I recycle everything. We have giant green bins distributed by the city for each household. The bins are picked up every Tuesday. It doesn't cost anything. Soda and beer bottles are brought back to the store for rebates. I am in the same category in my town in Metro (suburban) Chicago-even to the color of the recycle bin. We do not have a bottle/can deposit fee here so they ALL go into the recycle bin along with meat trays, newspapers, none credit card mail, glass anything, plastic grocery bags, egg cartons, all rinsed food cans....... Our 'trash' bins are brown. Mostly biodegradaable food waste, used kitty litter for me. We also have to put yard waste in special bags & PAY additional for a pickup tag.
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Post by happyscooter on Mar 7, 2013 7:35:57 GMT -5
We recycle everything. Like GG, our recycling station is near the garbage so we take our recyclables when we take off our trash. We have so much that we do not have to pay. We started when our sons had to work on a scout merit badge. We realized there are ALOT of things that can be recycled. Peanut butter jars, dish detergent containers, jelly and mayonnaise and mustard containers, salad dresing bottles, water and beer bottles, coke cans, tuna and bean cans, etc... They have a place for newspaper, cardboard and mixed paper-like phone books. And like Molly, we recycle batteries and plastic bags and use our own bags at the grocery stores. And recently I took some old magazines and books to the local schools for their art projects.
But I have a BIG box of the styrofoam peanuts in my garage that were used when I ordered something on line. I am holding onto those in case I need to give a gift or mail something out of town that is breakable.
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