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A basic question about recycling
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Posted by wangshan Z5 usa MW (My Page) on Wed, Apr 11, 07 at 21:03
I am happy to see this forum..it's good to see more interest in ecologically sound practices.
Here we recycle in "blue bags". I have been getting much more serious lately with it, but I'm not sure how clean does stuff have to be ? Do you have to rinse out or wash off all the plastic things first or is it ok to put them in with food stuck on etc.? |
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RE: A basic question about recycling
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| Our recycling says clean. I think it's a mtter of a health issue. Containers with stuff stuck to them is an invite to rodents. |
RE: A basic question about recycling
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| Our program says to clean things out also. Believe it or not, this is one of the reasons several people I know give as for NOT recycling - they either don't want to clean things out, or feel they shouldn't have to. Ridiculous. Like they can't take a few seconds to swish some water around and rinse the darn container out? Drives me nuts... :)
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RE: A basic question about recycling
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- Posted by lilod NoCal/8 (My Page) on
Thu, Apr 12, 07 at 23:28
| I live rural, and even items just going into the garbage are rinsed and treated with a little bleach or detergent - recycling gets rinsed as a matter of course. Pick-up is every other week, critters check out things every day. Not only rodents, but 'coons, wandering dogs and bears, so unless you want to pick up the blue bin and re-gather all the stuff, keep it as clean as possible. |
RE: A basic question about recycling
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| Hi Lilo! Amen to that. I keep my can recycles outside in a bin with a lid. I rinse even my soft drink cans out, because the sweet liquid is an invite to yellow jackets and other sugar seeking wasps........not to mention maggots in food tins. I even tear off the paper and mash them, pretty much the same routine my mother used because when recycling was encouraged in WWII, everyone did it like that. |
RE: A basic question about recycling
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Hi, Calliope - afraid I'm old enough to remember the WWII recycling - and we were required to flatten the cans. Back then, recycling was a patriotic duty - now, it should be considered a moral duty. We owe it to the earth.
And yes, I rinse out stuff going into the recycle bin - even put some things in the dishwasher if there's room. One thing that did my heart good was to see the bins outside of our Publix super markets; one each for plastic bags, paper, foam meat trays and egg cartons, I think that was all. Made me proud to shop there. cora |
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