Comments on 21 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Recycle

• 21 Things You Didn't Know You Can Recycle
• Garbage. Americans produce more and more of it every year, when we need to be producing less.
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  Most of the ideas listed on the site are even recycling any way, they are actually reusing. Get your terms right and use a dictionary.

  Free carbon is generally blamed for global warming, right? Putting your cardboard and newspapers in the landfill is locking up carbon and thereby slowing global warming.

  Forget recycling, that’s the last of the three R’s. Do your reducing first, don’t generate so much crap in the first place. When you buy fruit and veg, don’t put each type of item in it’s own individual bag. It amazes me that every week I see people put a bunch of bananas in a clear plastic bag, a bag which they then put in another bag at the checkout. Often they will tie a knot in the bag, so you know they’re just going to rip it open and chuck it away. Forgetting the materials, it’s a waste of time - bananas have a thick skin, what the fuck does a clear plastic bag do!

  At the risk of inciting hippy ire:

  Recycling is totally bogus - it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem: mountains of disposable crap. If things were made to last and we stopped consuming rubbish (plastic happy meal toy anyone?) then we might have a better time of it. Don’t get rid of it after it’s made, just don’t make the shit in the first place.

  Just throw it away. Everything. Recycling is a lie. It was a money saving option for metal and paper groups. It doesn’t save anything, all it does is make you do all the work. The same materials are picked up before it enters the dump system anyway. Not to mention large recycling programs generate 20% more energy waste then standard garbage pickup which in the end does the same thing.

  that was about 3 things i didnt know i could recycle

  List of recyclable materials.

  recycle stuff

  Go green.

  batteries, computers, CFL’s, etc.

  where to recycle

  Anything made of metal will almost always be accepted at a scrap yard. If it’s sorted, you will get paid for it.

  You can recycle batteries at Radioshack, and ink cartridges at Staples where I think they give you $3 for a new cartridge.

  read the ecology of commerce by Paul Hawken