Recycling

I'm sure most of us try our best to save the planet through the recycling bins that most councils provide...I hope? but...what are we throwing in these bins and could we use them ourselves?

This post may bore some folks so I'll limit my suggestions for now and hope that more members will add to it...

The cardboard inside toilet rolls and kitchen rolls make excellent little starting pots for garden seeds and, as they are biodegradable they can be planted straight into the ground when the are big enough. I've also seen some amazing artwork done with these cardboard rolls :)

example...

http://www.pinterest.com/jpgodschild/you-got-be-kidding-me-these-used-to-be-toiletpaper/

If you are baking with apples (minimum around 1lb) do not throw the skins or cores away...I've harvested the seeds from some apples I had and...would you believe it..I now have six very small royal gala trees, 3 granny smith and a couple of red delicious! The skins and cores have gone on to make apples cider vinegar so...just a couple of recycling suggestions from me for now...I have heaps more but...would love to learns from others???

So...as no one has answered so far, I have to imagine that most are asleep and unconsciously adding to the ozone layer with *cough* unwanted gas?? Yes...that fart of yours does COUNT!! Make up for it by recycling your toilet roll stub :)

We recycle cardboards.

I'm curious how do you make the apple cider vinager?

I reuse plastic bags as "trash bags" in the small containers I have for collecting trash. I save the containers that some fast foods come in for storage in the refrigerator, plus "lunch meats" come in those containers as well. I use the smaller plastic water bottles over and over.

EDIT: Lucero, this link will tell you how to make apple cider vinegar at home.

http://thehealthyeatingsite.com/apple-cider-vinegar-recipe/

EDIT: My medications come in these resealable plastic bags which do have small holes in them. I save them for things that do not need an airtight closure and it works very well. My junk drawer is much neater now, lol.

Everything I buy, I try to see if it is going to be trash or can it be used for something after it is empty. I do have paper plates but I used them several times over before I even consider throwing them out. (Don't have a dishwasher and at times my medical issues keep me from standing at the sink for any length of time so I resorted to the infrequent use of paper plates.)

I am very faithful in recycling. I go out of my way to do so. I lost my job few times back then, focusing more on recycling than the job itself. God bless my father he always got so mad at me picking up cans in streets in order to recycle, saying: This is not a job MY SOM should do.
Now you could imagine how disappointed I was few month ago in a bus stop in Toronto when I witnessed the garbage truck threw all the garbage and different sorts of recycles in the same section and mix them together. I was too appalled by that because we (at least me) go out of our ways to make sure to do right thing and separate them.

"I'm sure most of us try our best to save the planet through the recycling bins that most councils provide...I hope? but...what are we throwing in these bins and could we use them ourselves?"

Really????? Recycling will save the planet? I guess Recycling
should be nominated for a Nobel Prize ~winks~
Let me point out the very obvious for you before the consuming facts pull us beneath the surface....
Recycling is a very profitable business for the government,
nothing more, that's all..
So you dont believe me? Google it!
Heck, Toronto ships its garbage to Detroit and still walks away with profit!!!

If you truly want to save the planet than do this!!! Save our children first!!! From sex trafficking and so on.... save Palestine, Israel...and so many more.. annul all atomic weapons, all fast food restaurants.. do I need to go on anymore??????

I think you kind of missed my point DE...I was saying think twice before you put items that you may be able to use yourself into the recycle bins. As for people making a profit from recycling materials I say good on them. In the past a lot of these materials were buried in land fill and, surely that was not doing our planet any good.

While all of the things you mention are horrible theoretically, they have no effect on the planet as such.

As for people making a profit from recycling materials I say good on them.

Hmmm I wasnt talking about ppl Its a Government Entity

"While all of the things you mention are horrible theoretically, they have no effect on the planet as such."

Yeah u r right on...

Let us all be afraid of Global Warming too hahhah

" If you truly want to save the planet ... Save our children first!!! From sex trafficking and so on.... save Palestine, Israel...and so many more..."

D s. what you're saying is like : I do not think they should focus on child welfare and they should focus more on world hunger. They both are important and in no way either one contradict the other. Also taking profit out of recycling is way better that not recycling at all. It is like saying you rather to throw money on the toilet then let someone to get reach of that. even worth than that It is like saying that you rather that, knowing it would plug the toilet and is bad all together for environment.

I think we should also recycle goodwill in the world!!

D s. what you're saying is like : I do not think they should focus on child welfare and they should focus more on world hunger."

Nop! What Im saying is that we, taxpayers have absolutely no
capital gain from it! Also, let me enlighten you dear DD, in Toronto there is a "police" governing the streets on recycle days! Why you might ask?! Well because they don't want you to take anything from there!! I wonder why???

PS: I do recycle! I have 2 blue bins!

You can sell a lot of recycle material yourself if you feel 'ripped off' by the government.

Hey...it seems you both reside in Toronto??? AMAZING!

" let me enlighten you dear DD..."

O gush I am so enlightened now that I am illuminated. If you can't believe me you could ask "Illuminatix" right at your corner.

^^^^^

~~winks~~

Haha it is not only "~~winks~~"
once Nior tolled me that the only thing that soled out who I was, was my distinctive impotence in English back then. But this is not what we could say about our friend. Everything is " The selling" point!!

But he is beautiful. I love him!!

What are the blue bins for? Are they both for the same recyclable materials? Do you have a separate food scraps bin in Toronto? I guess either of you can answer this, as you both come from the same place.

One for bottles and cans the other for papers ..., I suppose.

Ah....thanks. We only have one recycle bin here and everything goes in together. I don't buy newspapers but we have a free weekly paper delivered which I recycle into my garden beds. Bottles and jars I tend to keep and fill with home made sauces and the like. I use the inside of my wine boxes to hang from the trees to scare birds from the fruit so....very little actually goes into this bin. We have another bin for general waste.

We are not supplied with a scrap food bin but most of mine goes into the compost heap anyway.

We have a green bin for that too.

Hellon, we have a small bin for general waste, a larger bin for recycling and also a "garden organics" bin. Curious if you had one of these over your way? When I moved to Cairns I asked friends about it. They had never heard of it and thought it was strange.

Hi Mel...no we don't have a bin for organic waste in WA but, as I said, most of this goes in my compost bin. We only have 2 bins and both are the same size. Black one for general rubbish and green and yellow one for recycling. In Korea and parts of Scotland they have a small food waste bin which I guess they make into pet food?

Sylvia...please be careful if you are recycling your plastic bottles to drink from. This is a post I made regarding this when one of my grandsons got sick.

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=141243

These bottles are really good around the garden. I punch a couple of holes in the lid, cut of the bottom part and half bury them in the garden, near plants that like a lot of fertiliser. By putting the fertilizer in the bottle you are guaranteed that the roots will definitely get more than they would if you scattered it around the base.

Recycling here:
I'm on the homeowner board & caught a lot of flack four years ago when we voted to include recycling. Now everyone uses it & we're upgrading the neighborhood to larger bins.

We reuse grocery bags: the larger ones are for trash & the smaller ones hold litter-box scoops.

We wash zip-lock bags & reuse them.

We put our paper recycling in the local school recycle bin.

I had to tear down my compost box & am rebuilding it.

Nice to see that, so far, most are willing to do their best to recycle with only one negative response so far.

Thanks Hellon, will watch the bottle thing.

Not only is recycling good for the earth, it has the added benefit of saving me money and that is always a good thing. Phoenix has a recycling ordnance but for some reason the smaller apartment complexes must be exempt. I know homeowners can be fined if they do not use the recyle bins.

I love the idea of reusing toilet paper rolls for art/decoration and other useful things! It's crazy how creative people are with using just simple things that most people throw away. It definitely makes me want to reevaluate the things that I waste.

I do recycle some things... like others have mentioned, I reuse my grocery bags for small trash cans and litter box scoopings. I also reuse the litter containers (35 lb buckets) for many things! I usually paint/decorate them and right now I use them for pet food storage, gardening pots, craft supplies, etc. I collect wine/liquor bottles and sauce jars for all kinds of crafts, too.

Oh, and I do save all of my pop cans and sell them back. It's just a little pocket change but hey, it helps from time to time.

"You can sell a lot of recycle material yourself if you feel 'ripped off' by the government."

Tell that to the peeps going around 5am on the streets to pick out the goodies from the blue bin ~hugs~

"Hey...it seems you both reside in Toronto??? AMAZING!"

It seems so but this town is too small for the two of US!!!! So DD must move on!!!! ~smiles~ Or at least sit down with me, one on one to let us reason together about enlightenment..

Haha that is fine with me

Name a piece of rubbish, and I'll find you a use for it.

Racism for one.

It keeps the narrow minded people busy running in circles

Haha that circle is what brought the slavery, the second world war...
Unfortunately it does not turning only in the circle like the hands-on-shoulders dance. They keep busy on that circle conspiring against other species and human kind.
this is the types of circles we try to avoid.

Straight from toilet paper rolls to second world wars... it must be tedious being so wise, ddavidd.

Racism is useful when you want to educate people about racism.

Haha Abby it is hard the process of which one learns the account of the relativity of objects.
Remember, you dare us to challenge you:

So it is good that we allow holocaust to happen to then be able to educate people about it.

"Haha that is fine with me"
OK than! PM me where and when and I shall be there :) or heck, phone me.. I will give you my # :)

Busy these days.
after twenty perhaps.

Real meaning just rejected deepest essence.
That strikes me as hilarious.

ddavidd, good does not equal useful. My sentence stands true. Just like witnessing a gunshot wound is useful when making a documentary about gunshot wounds.

Anyway. Tins and bottles.

First of all I did not reject I have a very hectic week I merely said later. Haha to draw your conclusion you create an artificial irony; this is a better source of hilarity, as well as cuteness.

The other thing " good does not equal useful"
Regardless of all other problem this sentence has at least you don't seem pragmatist. This is good. But you contradict this by the statement such as: " Racism is useful when you want to educate people about racism" Which not only is hilarious also it is hilariously pragmatic. It sounds like: lets promote racism, we could educate people about it. This goes to your main challenge: It means you are saying: racism is good because allows us to educate ourselves, instead of saying, we do not recycle this trash , we dispose it for good.
Same here in your next statement: is shooting people with gun to be stopped in any cost, or, is it better to be promoted because it might be useful for your highness to make documentary?

good game :) :)

"Real meaning just rejected deepest essence.
That strikes me as hilarious."

Hahha Is that what happened??? Funny is what you are dear one!

DD shout up and let me know where we can meet!!! hahaha