Question by Pacifest: How long have you been recycling your waste?
And what is your fun story about the first time you ever recycled?
When I was younger, there were always bags around the yard overflowing with our aluminum cans. For one reason or another, even if a recycling center was in easy reach of my parents…they just stopped caring. I’ve even tried to persuade them to start back up…with little or no success.
I started recycling my own waste about 2 1/2 years ago, not long after my city’s first recycling plant was finally built. I snagged one of their promotional bumper stickers, but still procrastinated…but then, I stuck it to my car. Even if I drove around advertising for GPS Recycle Now!, I still kept putting off the task of buying my extra garbage cans for the job.
But I put my sticker on the car to push myself into recycling…I figured that if I reminded myself that I have advertised for something good to do, but wish not to be a hypocrite, I’d better get crackin’. Then, I bought my supplies, started recycling, and I have never stopped. I recycle EVERYTHING, religiously, and that’s the way I like it.
How’d it happen with you?
Best answer:
Answer by Botsy
It’s no fun, better to just throw it over the fence into the neighbors yard and let him worry about it.
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I don’t remember a time when noting was being recycles in my household. Back in the 30s (Yes, I AM that old), my mother used to save the tag ends of bars of soap, place them in water and make her own liquid soap for cleaning. During WWII, we saved the fat that dripped from meat for use in munitions factories and got “ration points” for it.
More recently, I backed my township getting one of the first recycling grants in the county. Now, it is pretty much universal. The township buys the cans and we now have single-stream recycling; the homeowner does not have to separate the materials.
While the township does collect brush for chipping and leaves for composting, I have been doing it myself longer. The township distributes a free booklet on the subject, one I wrote.
where i live (scotland) we have 3 full sized wheelie bins one for general household waste one for garden waste and one for paper and plastics we also have smaller box type bins for glass and metal and when the bin lorry comes to do its pick up the recycleable waste is emptied into seperate sections of the truck then the truck takes it to be recycled so its basically just lazyness over here if you dont recycle
I have been recycling my whole life…. ALMOST. I never really had a fun story of recycling. I just hate it when people leave trash around. We need to make the world a better place. So, let’s tell our friends to start picking up the old trash laying around and start recycling.
well you do not have to worry about recycling any more we a machine that make s soda. its at store now so you do not have worry about anything about the environment. will i when i was young i used to recycle cans and make money of it. i use that money to buy game cartridges with it. take time effort to do those thing
Thanks for sharing your great experience. This is a great input for me 🙂
You can share your story or tips in article to encourage many people.
Usually, when i have or found a good tips, submit it to green article directory to share it with people.
Keep up with the good habit!
i barely ever recycled but one day a woman came knocking on my door, i answered she was working with some recycle company, she told me about recycling and gave me a few pamphlets. i was really bored so i read them all from cover to cover after that i started recycling all the time and i even convinced my friends to recycle too!
The main thing I recycle is paper and aluminum cans.
For me, it all started out when I was little. My parents recycled all the newspapers we received in the mail and bought in the grocery store. Being so little I didn’t understand the concept of recycling. All I knew was that the bin we had in our garage was where the newspapers, and more importantly my comics, went when we were done with them. Every so often my Dad would take the bin and stow it in the trunk of his car before work, and when he got home that afternoon they were gone.
As I got older, I realized what recycling was. I understood that us putting newspapers in the recycling bin meant that less trees needed to be killed.
Later, when my little town in the middle of nowhere started growing, I realized quickly that they were taking trees from everywhere. Every once and a while we would see trucks drive by our house carrying a bed full of pine trees. Companies would come, buy land, clear cut it, and then leave the land there barren and ugly until they could sell it to another company that would develop it.
Then it happened in my back yard. Literally. My family owned a plot of land that was in a forest. Our whole back yard was full of pine trees. I loved it. I had adventures back there when I was a kid! I built forts and brought my friends back there so we could play house. XD The land was owned by an older woman who later passed away and gave the land to her sons who sold it to a developer. They clear cut what I considered an extension of my backyard. And then instead of shipping the timber off to a company that could use it, they burned all of it.
Anyway, to make a long story short (too late…) my family kept recycling newspapers and such, and I grew up always remembering everything that had happened in my community. In high school I helped maintain our school-wide recycling program. You should have seen how much paper our school would have just thrown away…
Now I’m headed off to college, and I plan to be involved in the school’s environmental clubs also. 🙂
I know my story wasn’t funny… at all… but I still hope you enjoyed reading it!
I liked your story too! Oh the power of that bumper sticker!