Not sure if this belongs here, but i'm thinking about starting recycling. I never really cared about the environment, but just looking through my place at all the waste is making me think. I live in an apartment with two other dudes. I drink A LOT of bottled water, and sometimes just throw the bottle on the floor when i'm done. I went around with a plastic bag today and found 45 empty bottles of water. I was amazed! I then went around the same way with a different bag for cans, my room mates consume A LOT of soda, i even digged through the trash a little. 56 cans! i think i am going to go out to wal-mart and get two more trashcans so i can have one for plastic bottles, and one for aluminum cans.questions. what else should i be recycling? how much cash could i get from it if i take it somewhere? where can i find recycling places?thanks in advance.
To bump this, clean paper, such as paper bags, newspapers, photocopied paper, toiler rolls, etc., etc., etc. Not greased paper though.Check the yellow pages or talk to your local council about recycling places.Also, computers.
Unless you live in Michigan, don't start recycling on the idea that you will make some good cash on the side.Do it because it is the logical thing to do.There should be some recycling bins located around your town but there have been reports it gets dumped in landfills anyway. If there is a recycling plant nearby, take it to them, where they will weigh your sacks of cans and newspapers and will give you a buck or two.
You should stop drinking bottled water and invest in a fucking nalgene bottle.
Don't bother recycling paper. Most paper comes from tree farming now, not the destruction of old growth forests. Just be conscientious about where you are buying your stationary, etc. The fucking chemicals used in bleaching and processing old paper for reuse as a recycled material are WAY worse than the chemicals used to process wood pulp, and some recycling plants (such as the ones ere around the great lakes) just dump their used chemical waste in the nearest available body of water... usually Lake Ontario and Superior. :)