Is it worth recycling at home when huge companys still use landfill instead?
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Recycling is a work in progress. Hopefully in time it will be common practise.\n\nIts not there yet, but we can't step backwards, especially since its not a lot of trouble anyways.
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For disposal of hazardous waste, many cities and municipalities have hazardous waste collection sites or special days set aside for collection of such items. Check with your city or county Solid Waste Dept. or Environmental Quality or Environmental Protection agency for information. If you have a computer that is still functional, consider donating it to a school or nonprofit organization in need. Also, a nonprofit computer recycling organization called Computer Recycling Center may be helpful (see sources). For ideas on how to recycle items from cell phones to used tires, or how to stay ahead of the game and REDUCE consumption of products (for example, use canvas bags instead of plastic or paper; stop junk mail), see the following sources. Did you know, for example, that 4 to 5 trillion plastic bags are manufactured each year, and that the majority of them are NOT recycled? If we reduce consumption (by using canvas bags, for example), we work toward making our earth cleaner and healthier.
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It's where products are put into containers that can be recycled, reused are themselves recycled. They can degrade after they are disgarded and don't hurt the environment. Some companies are working on plastic wrap from soy and fruit (like fruit roll up only much thinner) Some companies use real popcorn instead of styraofoam peanuts. Stuff like that.
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Try taking a look on your local freecycle bulletin board.  You'd be amazed at the items that people are giving away simply to keep them out of the landfill.  Go to www.freecycle.org.
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It depends on whose definition you are using.  In the ultimate case, you would have zero waste and zero loss of natural resources.  No recycling process can be 100% efficient for example, so you can never achieve ultimate sustainability.
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It's recycling paper. It's better for the environment.
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YES!  So, recycle them instead.
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Most cities or counties have recycling programs for electronic waste such as computers, monitors, and in your case copiers. In my area, Los Angeles County, they have e-Waste roundups where you drive up with your pickup truck or put stuff in your trunk, and they take it out free of charge. You can visit www.888CleanLA.com for more information. If you reside in a different area, I would contact your local City or County office.
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It depends. While more people = more trash, a lot of landfills are being built in better ways. Many landfills have multiple layers (clay, dirt, etc) thus helping to protect the groundwater underneath from becoming contaminated. A lot of landfills also have methane pipes, so the gas created by decomposition can be salvaged and used for electricity. However, I would assume that many landfills that were built a long time ago probably do have leakage problems, which can be highly detrimental since ground water contamination is a major problem (and an extremely expensive one to fix). Likewise, a lot of areas are running out of suitable areas to place landfills, such as Toronto, which sends its trash to Michigan. This is not good. We need to focus more on source reduction and recycling. Trash will always be here, but we should reduce it as much as we can. BTW- most items in landfills take years/decades/centuries to decompose, mainly because they are squished together and lack the oxygen needed to decompose. More people need to create their own compost piles and reduce their impact on landfills.
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recycling material is A. harder than what you get out of it and B it porduces green house gases that you know about and C it costs a shit load more than just dumping it in a land fill and getting thousands of years of methane out of it. and also why isn't there a no green house gases law, or no sex before your married law, or a morally correct law that bans gays from marrying (which i oppose) because this is America stupid, and i have a right to do with my garbage whatever the hell i want with it (except litter) YAY
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I just watched something about this on Oprah today. There's these lightbulbs you can buy for about $10 each that have 10 times the life of regular lightbulbs and use up to 66% LESS energy. Also, RECYCLE, REDUCE, REUSE! Plant trees! Use as much recycled materials as you can! And spread the word! Let's all become environmentalists so we can save the Earth for our children and THEIR children! :)
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Even if you have serious ecology & health concern, still you may want to make an informative decision and choose the best chemical on the market, relevant to your criteria. You may want to use a lot of online sources: e-opinon.com, bizrate.com etc., newsgroups etc. Home made cleaner could be much more dangerous and expensive solution.\nBig competition and huge volume of manufactiring in the industry made the best cleaning chemicals available for pennies. You could even order them for free, as samples in frames of some advertizement programs.
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When ever possible use recycled paper. \n\nRegarding the paperless office, I was just having a conversation earlier today about the very same subject. Electronic data is very efficient, however, what if the system crashes and no means to retrieve your backup data, if you kept a paper backup then you can resort to the paper information if possible. (old school)
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I do recycle personally; even though some places make it an absolute pain to do so.\n\nOne place I lived, they had a "recycling" place.  However, in order to use it, you had to go when it was open, which was only one Saturday a month for two hours.  Then you had to take all the recycling you had piled up during that time and seperate it yourself.\n\nIt was sometimes too much to handle, especially because I used to have to travel some weekends, so sometimes I would have to make two or three trips to deliver all my two or three months worth of recylycing... which even if you wash it out at home before storing it... didn't exactly smell nice.\n\nWhere I am now they actually take it all curbside once a week (the same day as trash)... which is SO nice.  Another place I lived you had to take your own garbage to the town "dump"  If you didn't recycle (or volunteer at the recycling station at least once a year) you were given quite a hard time.  It was a small New England town, so they really did care and worked hard to recycle.\n\nTowns and cities need to make it easier, and people will just catch on.  Then they won't remember what it was like not to.  Change takes time... but you have to make it a little easier for people.
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Depending where you live, rural or urban, but if rural then this gets it every time.  Aluminum cans all rinsed and shook out in one waste basket.  Steel cans and glass in another waste basket all rinsed and shook for avoiding flies.  Paper and plastics in the third trash can and collapse boxes and rinsed cartons and when this is full go burn it gone.  Aluminum cans give your children much appreciated monies and the steel and glass may be sorted if recycling in your social or society's preference: Glass here and steel cans there.  If somehow, baby diapers enter into the trash flow, then if you'll use double grocery bags you can nicely tie up a bundle of ten, no stink, and get em gone in some expedient manner: They burn badly and scatter owner's yard. Garbage can go to pet/s.
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http://local.yahoo.com/details?fr=dd-local-tl2&id=20722785&stx=paper+recycling&csz=Corona+CA&ed=9lYjG6160Sy4BzvstX65LtGOtNRkVsDUADEZVRzYxx0HIjsWSes94C25NFxFr3TSUc_fwin.R8WK
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I Hear you can put an ad in your local newspaper to take old computers off someones hands for  a minimal fee,so it does,nt end up in the landfill, & then you can recondition it if you have the technology for that thing.