Category: Daily Living
What do you all do for recycling?
I realize it has gotten easier, but there are still some challenges.
Nowadays, anyway, at least glass is easier seeing as you don't have to separate by color, and metal containers need only be washed out / have their labels removed.
However, plastics is another thing altogether. How do you know, having no sight, what can and cannot be put into recycling? There are apparently numbers on the plastic, but I wondered if there's a consistency thing you can feel to make this determination?
Thanks - someone on here will know this / have a response ...
For some plastics and even I think Styrofoams, there is a raised symbol for recycling. It's a triangle with something inside of it. Also, I think some plastics also have a raised number and I think that's to tell you whether or not it can be recycled. I'm not sure, but I also think some materials that are not tactily labeled like some wrapping/packaging materials can be recycled as well. I don't sort the things I recycle, as we just have a big plastic dumpster to throw all recyclables in. In the kitchen, we have a trash bag to put recycleables in, usually that come from the kitchen, and when I have things to put in to recycle in my room, I take a trash bag to my room to put them in. When the bags are full, we tie them up and toss them into the big recycle bin outside.
Ah thanks. We do have to sort some things, but mostly not introduce unrecyclable materials like plastics that can't be recycled. We have one tub for plastic, metal and paper / cardboard, and another for glass.
My idealistic teenage daughter gave me some grief the other day for burning some stuff in the fireplace, mainly wood and cardboard with some paper, on account of that not being truly environmentally friendly. And here I thought I was actually being somewhat enlightened about the situation ... POO!
I'm all for recycling and being environmentally smart, so glad we aren't cut out of it anymore.