Nov 20
Recycling Makes A Difference
At least it makes a huge difference in how full our trash can is every week. This last week, we generated enough trash to almost fill 20% of our can vs. 80% before the city distributed recycling cans.
The recycling can (which is unfortunately a bit smaller) was completely full. Part of the reason is that the recycled stuff is bulkier, milk and juice jugs and boxes take up a lot of room in the can. We may have to start taking more care to break down boxes.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm
It sure does, we typically have more recycling than actual garbage though we try to cut down all of it.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
It was a surprise to me as I would have argued that only half the volume of our trash was recylable and I would have been very wrong.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I am the recycling queen! I try to outdo myself weekly, and right now I am down to one small plastic bag of garbage per pick up day. Soon here, they are going to have a ‘green’ recycling bin, which is for all food waste. I am looking forward to that as I don’t have a composter, and it is just not feasable where I live. The only thing I hate is trying to keep all the recyclables looking tidy. The containers/bags are not the nicest looking things,lol, so I am always on the lookout for something a little more ‘blend-in-able’.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Lori, I so understand. Our laundry room and kitchen have way too many cans! One for food for each dog and one for trash. I can’t imagine adding another for recycling. So far, we’ve been taking a large recyclable and filling it with smaller ones. That is very ugly, but it serves the purpose.