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Hi this is something that has been bothering me for some time. Why when I put my trash out every Friday do I see that very few of my neighbors bother with recycling?
My little recycling container is always full to capacity and often not big enough. My neighbors have on average very few items in the container if any. Should I even bother?
I also have noticed driving around our area that the more affluent and or liberal (I can tell by the number of Obama stickers) an area is the less likely that there will be any recycling put out. I bring up the liberal thing only because this is one small part where we can help bring about change and do our share!!?????
Hi this is something that has been bothering me for some time. Why when I put my trash out every Friday do I see that very few of my neighbors bother with recycling?
My little recycling container is always full to capacity and often not big enough. My neighbors have on average very few items in the container if any. Should I even bother?
I also have noticed driving around our area that the more affluent and or liberal (I can tell by the number of Obama stickers) an area is the less likely that there will be any recycling put out. I bring up the liberal thing only because this is one small part where we can help bring about change and do our share!!?????
Talk is cheap!
Maybe... They really really care, and are eating their recyclables?
Other than that theory, hmmmm.
I see all my neighbors piling recyclables out at the curb every week, regardless of political views.
I see everyone putting out their recyclables every week in my neighborhood. Pretty liberal area too.
I'm actually astounded that, in a week, I've got two bulging full recycling bins plus some corrugated cardboard on the side, and our trash output from a family of five (including lots-'o'-diapers) is just two large black bags full. (That doesn't count the shredded stuff or additional cardboard that I take separately to the recycling station.) We don't even come close to filling our Chapel Hill-standard issue 68-gallon roll cart.
A10ACE, where do you live? Your experience is very different from mine, so I'm curious.
Recycling is really popular in my neighborhood. I haven't consciously checked the recycling habits of all of my neighbors, but I'm sure a high majority of homes put recycling bins on the curb on trash day. A number of us put out more than one bin of recycling because the regular bin is just too small to hold it all.
Almost everyone in my neighborhood in N. Raleigh recycles. I'm bummed becuase last week my green recycling tub was not on the curb when I got home from work. I guess somebody has "recycled" my recycling bin.
same here...almost everybody in my neighborhood recycles. They might not put theirs out every week b/c it isn't full...but they do recycle.
Voting for Obama doesn't make you a liberal...or a recycler.
This is something that also has bugged the heck out of me since moving to this area. I am accustomed to recycling everything possible that the city program will take.
The first apartment complex that I lived in here in NW Raleigh only had a cardboard recycling container for the entire complex. I would collect my glass, plastic, and aluminum and haul it to a neighboring condo complex in order to recycle those items. Neither complex had a receptacle for newspapers. It was a pain, especially considering that multi-family complexes can supposedly get mass recycling receptacles at no cost from the city. Not to mention, I was paying for recycling service in my water/sewer/trash bills!
Now that I don't live in a commercial complex, each apartment has its own curbside bin. My boyfriend and I are the only ones that put our full bin out since we've lived there. A few of the businesses on my street put their bins out, but the neighbors in our building and the house next door never do.
It also frustrates me that the local recycling program only accepts plastic "bottles" and won't take other types of plastics, such as food tubs or yogurt cups. Not to mention, a monthly used battery pick-up with the normal recyclables would make proper battery disposal so much easier.
I understand that there are costs associated with recycling different types of items, but I think the cost benefit would improve if more people would participate in recycling. I guess the city needs to work on this before they can accept more types of recyclables.
Sad to say, but I wish we had bigger containers.... Wish I generated less garbage! I do find that all my neighbors seem to put their bins out on Friday though...
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