When will Americans wake up and get into recycling  ...?.?
489991
My city has curbside recycling.  Just put it at the curb on trash day.  We do recycle.  And husband takes the bus to work.  My family is doing all it can.
818658
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.
874475
Educating People to be more concious of the Problem!\n\nWe all could recycle more, dispose of less.\nWe all could use more energy efficient heating and motor vehicles.\nDo we really need to use so much power - light that are not needed, leaving chargers plugged in, etc\n\nPeople need to be made aware of the situation and how we all can do our bit to help!
210712
That is a crock!! I personally do not believe there is a job an AMERICAN won't do. I have watched  " Dirtiest Jobs" on TV and I see AMERICANS cleaning out cesspools, replacing pumps in cesspools, crawling through pipes underground where there are cockroaches and big, fat RATS, picking up dead animal carcasses on the highways. I never see a Mexican do those jobs. I have a family member who works in the sanitation station in our city, he's white. Our president is speaking out of turn when he says that. He has no idea what American do or will do to take care of their families.
593605
more people, more waste!
177450
encourage recycling of plastic based products like plastic bottles and bags. \nEncourage fuel economy and the use of public transportation\nMore energy efficient houses\nNuclear power plants
586254
Better technology and medicine is a given. Gas prices will probably be higher. People will continue to complain about the economy but no one will do anything about it. We'll have a different president (the way things are going now, probably a Democrat), but we'll still have troops over in Iraq. TV shows like "The Simpsons" and "Friends" will continue to be on reruns every other hour. Americans will continue their dieting craze, but won't stop eating fast food. More doomsayers will emerge, just as people did right before Y2K. And as for resolving the immigration issue, I really have no idea...
911169
Yes.  That time is here.  New day for America!  New path!
1070913
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
180303
I wish they did - they just trash everything -I never really see any fast food bussinesses recycle -some grocery stores recycle their cardboard boxes and I know Wal-mart is avid about recycling - I've been saying for years that it should be a LAW for everyone to recycle its not that difficult to do if we just organized it to fit our lifestyles -I believe someday we may not have a choice but to recycle and if we wait til then it could almost be too late. So everyone should do their part RECYCLE!!!!
972563
I'm beginning to be convinced....Seems like nature loves recycling...Oxygen, water, why not us?
775908
Where's it's economically viable to recycle we should, when not, we should reuse, and if that doesn't work, then start with new.  \n\nWe are NOT running out of landfill space, we are SO far away from that it isn't even funny.  We could build a single land fill 24 miles wide and it'd be enough to throw everything away for the next 5000 years, and we could use the methane to power Las Vegas.  \n\nRecycling paper to save trees is like recycling tortillas to save corn.  They aren't chopping down 500 year old red woods so you can read a news paper.
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I've spent an entire semester in university listening to and researching over this issue ... and yes the "peak" has passed ... if you look at the bell curve, we're heading towards (or already are) on the decline side of the curve ... and soon it's going to be all over.  \n\nbasically we need to look into alternative source... and that's where this thing gets tricky.  oil is, for the most part, needed for transportation... and cars and transport means that do not require fossil fuels are either not fast enough or they're too expensive.  so what to do now?\n\nwell.... the answer lies in changing the minds of the human race... we live in an economy-driven world... they worry about making money, dont care where it comes from... \n\nbut the good news is that there's an abundant amount of awareness about all the environmental issues out there... i'm in my 20s and i don't remember this type of awareness happening 5 - 10 years ago... so we're headed in the right direction... question is are we alreadfy too late?  the answer is: only time will tell!\n\nand i can go on and on, but due to lack of time i have to end here ... if i have more time before u close this q i might add more in! \n\noh, but before i go... here's a recommendation (a documentary):\nEnd of suburbia dicrected by gregory greene\n\nit talks about the peak-oil crises!\n\ncheers!
528352
The answer to the first question is Yes. As to how much energy we can save and how much garbage we can reduce, I'd recommend calling the local disposal service. Most of them either have recycling programs, or have at least studied them.\n\nI've noticed recycling has caught on big-time in the California cities but is lagging in the smaller towns such as the one where I live. So I found a local non-profit group that hires handicapped people to collect recyclables, and I started a compost heap. I may not be the perfect example you're looking for, but since I got serious about these things, we went from two full cans of trash per week to less than half of one can.\n\nGood question.
396844
well you can put what you should recycle. how recycling will help. like it'll help air pollution,water pollution, and stuff like that. state all the bad things that will happen if you don't recycle.
758102
Your recycling program. It turns out that at my high school we have recycle bins, but we don't even have a recycling contract with disposal company, so everything gets trashed anyway.
1185150
Soon we will be putting goofy dots in the middle of our foreheads, wearing sandles all day every day and smelling like a spice rack.  We will have running water but refuse to use it.  We will leave our shoes outside our apartment in a big pile so that people can see just how nasty we are.  It will be as if the world is reversed.  That is the future of the USA.