Shoutbox

I just wanted to see if you recycle or not.I would also like you to post your opinion about recycling and (whether you recycle or not) if you think it is  important and why...

I don't think it's so much a case of 'do you' but more a case of 'can you'. There probably people who would like to do their bit for the enviroment but there aren't the facilities available to do it (I can't even tell you where my nearest ones are).

The closest that I get to recycling is that of packaging as I buy a lot of things from the likes of eBay and other sites, to the likes of bubble wrap (get stress reliever btw) and cardboard, gets reused in my own packaging of my items I sell. ANd it won't be the first time that a copy of the odd Playstation or WebUser magazine, hasn't become shreded packaging

I recycle as one week stuff like plastic and grass cuttings get collect and the other week platic carboard and tins gets collected as well as our normal rubbish

Got bins for bottles/cans/tins, cardboard, grass etc, paper and normal rubbish... Sucks.

I don't always sort it out though

I don't always sort it out my dad usually does by crushing all cans ripping up carboard and puttin it into one carboard box and crushing the plastic and putting the plastic into a carrier bag

I always help put it out though

In addition to recycling, the city here launched an organics collection system about 10 years ago now. In a family of 5 when I used to live at home, We usually produced on average only one bag of garbage over 2 weeks. The rest is put in blue bags or the organics cart. It gets horribly smelly in the summer though

Since it was launched here, most other parts of the province has adopted a similar system.

See, our council has three bins for recycling (that is, if your lucky...seems to be new builds are getting two....and they want to start 2 weekly collection....that's another story....) and they are:

• Green - Household rubbish
  
• Brown - Garden waste
  
• Blue - Paper waste (but no cardboard, glossy magazines, envelopes with palstic faces etc etc etc)

My house only has the green and brown, so if we want to recycle paper, we need to take it down to my gran's house. I know that in Aberdeen (Scotland) they have the bags and they get sat by the roadside to be colllected.

There's always been the plastic bag recycling, but I think Tesco's is on the ball here in the UK, awarding 'Green points' to their loyalty card holders for not using plastic bags, or at least, not using new ones. You also get 'green points' for recycling your ink cartridges (although you do the send them through the post thing). And then of course you have the websites that will recycle that old mobile phone and give you money if it's worth anything...

I'm happy to hear  that you recycle...recycling is something for which we should all care about and believe me, it really helps nature.

I recycle paper and cans or bottles. i think that we have to save the environment so that our children can live in good conditions

Yes I also have a bad habit of switching off all the light's i go past.