♺♺♺ do you recycle? ♺♺♺

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For the most part it is a waste of time. Recycling paper is completely unnecessary. Paper companies farm trees, which are a renewable resource. Deforestation is primarily the result of development. Paper is not going to cause the world to run out of trees. Also the chemical treatment used to recycle paper is toxic for the environment.

Plastic, as anyone who has ever seen the green plumes of smoke coming out of the treatment facilities in NJ knows, releases toxic chemicals into the air when melted, and the resulting usable plastic is minimal and not worth it. If you don't care about polluting the air and want to keep it out of landfills, you would be better letting it go to a trash to electric power plant and have it burned for enegry instead, at least it has more value that way, the same is true for paper. If you have such a power plant in your area all you have to do is just throw it in the garbage.

The only thing worth recycling is metal. Metal has value, can be melted and repurposed easily, and with less environmental impact than mining. Everything else is just to make people feel good about themselves and often does more harm than good.

Yeah. We have a recycling collection programme that provides us recycling bins including a food waste bin. We get a free bag of compost from the city authority each month which is great!

Yes. When I was younger I thought it was strange when a friend's family didn't have a recycle bin in the kitchen.

No cus i pay tax.

We don't recycle the way you mean, but we re-purpose many of the things we use on the boat.
The islands do not have traditional recycling programs because it is way too costly to ship garbage overseas. It would be nice if there was a way though, because it's either a landfill or in the ocean, which isn't good for either.

I always recycle.

Why not grind up plastic and glass and mix it with asphalt to pave roads? This is an excellent way to get rid of the stuff without polluting.

I try to and I reuse whatever I can, like paper bags and certain plastic containers so I don't have to buy tupperware. I keep my glass jars and use them as drinking glasses or bric-a-brac holders . Stuff like that.

Whether you separate it or not doesn't really matter. Only the stuff that's worth money or is cost-effective to reuse will get recycled anyway and there's a fair possibility that your trash gets sifted through and sorted at a transfer station.

This is bad but most of the time no I don't. I don't really believe it will benefit anybody in the long run since we keep poisoning the planet