Quote Originally Posted by Ziggy View Post
I have totally become the recycle nut, officially.
Not only do I save, crush and return all my aluminum, #1 and #2 plastics(which nets me at least a few hundy each year) but I dismantle everything that I discard for recycling. Toilet and paper towel rolls, all our shred paper.....you name it it goes in the blue bin.
My city takes every plastic from #1 through #7, glass, tin, metal, styrofoam and basically anything paper. Any product we buy that has any of these components goes for recycling, whether or not I have to disassemble it to any degree. Florescent, cfl bulbs I take to either Lowes or HDepot. Plastic bags and shrink wrap shit goes to the boxes at the grocery or hardware stores too.
The biggest difference I have noticed is my 95Gal curbside blue recycle bin is at least 3/4+ full every week whereas my trash bin usually has one kitchen size bag and maybe 3 grocery bag sized other trash. Not long ago I had 3 or 4 33 gal trash cans bulging every week.
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So is anyone else as crazy as I in regards to trying to make a difference? I must say I do feel good about what I'm doing, especially looking back at how we really did abuse our earth in years past. It actually bothers me a little now when I see young kids just toss everything in the trash
I'm this way about people wasting water outside, mainly because irrigation is a simple way to conserve tons of water but very few people in So Cal do.

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