May 21, 2012
Recycling!!!
Recycle, recycle, recycle!!!
I think we are all now doing it to some degree. It is even catching on in many parts of Mexico.
Here at Holiday Park Resort, recycling has become a huge thing, they have even won civic awards for what goes on here. We have an area for cardboard only, another for light bulbs, another for household batteries, another for normal glass and a huge bin for plastics. There is even an area for visitors to the park to drop off their wine & liquor bottles, soda cans, etc. if they don’t feel like returning them to the store, which one of the clubs in the park recycles and uses the money for the good of the park.
We of course have the huge dumpster for the rest of the stuff but here we go one step further. If you have something of some value to throw away it is usually placed in front of the dumpster giving someone else the opportunity to pick it up rather than send that item to the dump forever. Many people have recycled plant pots this way, bicycles, even food in its original package. I have seen wine racks, shoes, an ironing board, a toaster, lamps, you name and it has likely been out in from of our dumpster. The amazing thing is that most of the items are claimed by someone bringing their own garbage to the dumpster. Now that is true recycling.
With all the packing we are doing there is also a great deal of stuff being chucked but much less is finding it’s way to the landfill. We went to Rona to dispose of half filled paint cans. Canadian Tire accepted our various bits of oil in a few containers. Colin researched online on how to dispose of our hundreds of CD’s. He discovered that it can take a million years to break down CD’s and the jewel cases. Staples in both Canada and the USA will accept these and recycle them for you. Bet you didn’t know that.
This new home of ours is going to be as green as we can make it, from flooring, to hot water on demand, to the furnace, to finding low energy appliances, low E glass windows and whatever else we can find. Our world deserves our effort!
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Thank you for all the info and I will pass some of your tips on, especially about
the CDs………………We now have a recycling container in our complex, which
is a great start………….Kudos to you both as well as Holiday Park. Cheers G.
Gisele….welcome to commenting on the blog. Glad to see that your complex is participating in recycling. One step at a time.
Marty….we are the caretakers of this planet and if you want your grandkids kids to have a safe environment it IS our responsibility. What a wonderful idea about the Community Cafe. I can see that catching on everywhere. I hope the media in your area are doing articles about it.
Dear Ducks….composting food waste is good but I do like Bozeman, Montana’s use of leftover and unused food the best.
George…..you travel around a lot so you must see a variety of attempts at recycling.
Connie….good on you in both your states. Here at Holiday Park because of all the recycling our garbage cost have gone down which helps us out in our maintenance costs.
Yay you! The sis in law that you met thinks Stan and I are crazy for making the effort but we are the caretakers of this planet. We find less and less going in our trash and more being recycled. When we have stuff we don’t want that is still good we either give it to Goodwill or put it in the free box we keep at the end of the driveway. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
I did NOT know that about Staples! Does AOL still send out those satanic discs willy-nilly?
Several big food consumers in Ithaca (Cornell U., Wegman’s grocery, small restaurants) compost their food waste. I’m sure other cities do it, too, it’s just that Ithaca is the most environmentally-progressive place I’ve been so far.
I like “free piles.” Mostly to give to, sometimes to take from.
In Bozeman the local Food Bank, HRDC, and local restaurants have teamed up to open the Community Cafe, and every night between 5 and 7 they serve food free to anyone who walks in. Local churches provide the wait staff, a grant provided for the purchase of the building and a head chef, and the restaurants provide the leftover and unused food to serve at the Cafe. It has taken off in a big way-people are being fed and nothing is wasted. You don’t have to be on any kind of program to eat there, just walk in.
All thought of by a church secretary.
It is amazing how much can be recycled and how little can go into the landfill if everybody does their part.
We have our own little recycling center in the corner of our barn. Where we are in PA, we have to separate green glass, brown glass, clear glass, tin cans which our local township recycling center takes for free. Newspapers and magazines go to a local farmer who shreds them for bedding in his barn. Aluminum cans we bag and take to another place. Right now we are getting about $3.50 for a big garbage bag full of those. In a years time, we easily get 50 plus bags total – easy money!
We recycle when at our DE place, too. The recycling center there has huge bins. They changed it last summer and now we can put all kinds of paper including junk mail, papers, mags, light cardboard like cereal boxes, soda/beer boxes, all glass, all cans into the same container. Heavy cardboard, batteries, clothing, and oil are all put in their own separate bin containers. They have what is like a huge trailer truck sitting there on the ground for you to put in household items you no longer want.
Me, too! But, no one would want to serve the scraps off my plate, or receive them, for that matter. Maybe Bozeman serves the good food, and then composts the scraps anyway!