Living Car Free - anyone else roll-2-recycle?

Like this (http://www.flickr.com/photos/9320902@N04/2766449327/in/photostream/)? :D

I often use my utility tricycle to take recycling stuff down to the council collection depot. I haven't needed to do that quite so much lately though because our town council has just started a weekly curbside recycling collection.

I don't but there is a older guy who regurly (daily I think) goes through the dumpsters in our hood getting cans out, pretty cool. I usually put my cans beside the dumpster in a seperate bag for him, kind of like curbside pick up.

I use a trailer but the effect is similar.

I use a trailer but the effect is similar.

Same here.

This guy got in trouble for not using a car to recycle.....

"It is so easy to go with my wheelbarrow across the footpath as it takes 20 minutes but it is a 40-minute drive in the car. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/7576469.stm

Luckily for me, the recycling center is just a 1 minute bike ride from my house. And that's taking the street[s]. :D

Since I live in Nanny-Ville, I don't need to do this. The City of Seattle collects virtually everything curbside for recycle or compost, whether the actual facilities or demand exist or not. There are even, officially, fines for throwing away recyclables, though it's unclear how this can ever be enforced... The end result is that politically-correct, organic-food-eating, living-in-megahouses, BMW-driving, homeless-person-avoiding, super-consuming Seattle-ites can feel good about their unsustainable lifestyles because they can pretend that their massive piles of waste are going to be recycled.

...The end result is that politically-correct, organic-food-eating, living-in-megahouses, BMW-driving, homeless-person-avoiding, super-consuming Seattle-ites can feel good about their unsustainable lifestyles because they can pretend that their massive piles of waste are going to be recycled.

Wow. That's powerful. Maybe you outta move to a place you feel better about, where people are more like you.

I should have been more clear in my post. We [in my city] have curbside pickup for trash, greens and recyclables. The plastics I was hauling on my bike have [CRV] California Redemption Value. Sorry for the mix up. :D

Wow. That's powerful. Maybe you outta move to a place you feel better about, where people are more like you.

Actually, I feel pretty good about where I live. A very large segment of the population here does, in fact, profess to care a great deal; as a community, our stated ideals are ones I agree with. It's the actual execution that frustrates me, not to mention the hypocrisy. Besides, where else in the US could I go? It's not like LA, NYC, Houston or Atlanta are bastions of sustainability. At least here in Seattle, I can be car-free and still get a date...

Like this (http://www.flickr.com/photos/9320902@N04/2766449327/in/photostream/)? :D

I've been working to ensure that I would need to make that kind of trip about once a year. I've convinced everyone in my household that plastic bottles are a scourge. We've all switched to drinking tap water. It's very economical and tasty.

On less of a high-horse though, I have to confess that I usually get my wife to drag (by car) whatever bottles accumulate. The above load seems a little dangerous to me and I don't have a functioning trailer.

I usually carry about that much recycling, but stuffed in a pair of Novara grocery bag panniers and a large TransIt trunk bag. The recycling bins are next to a grocery store, so I usually come home with the above filled with groceries. Repeat at least once every weekend. :D

I should have been more clear in my post. We [in my city] have curbside pickup for trash, greens and recyclables. The plastics I was hauling on my bike have [CRV] California Redemption Value. Sorry for the mix up. :D

Here in Michigan, we've had a 10 cent deposit on bottles and cans for about 30 years. Only beer and pop (that's what we call soda) containers were covered in the law, as bottled water and tea were almost unheard of when the law was passed. As a result, there are almost no containers littering the roadsides--except water and tea bottles. The retailers are fighting hard against an extension of the law to require deposits on non-carbonated beverages.

The above load seems a little dangerous to me.

It was actually pretty safe. I made sure it was strapped down real good. It looks like a lot, but the total weight of the two bags was about 4-5 pounds each, give or take.

Here are a couple of links to the Recycletron (http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/08/25/green-tuesday-recycletron-1000-hits-the-streets/) 1000 :thumb: Link 2. (http://www.bikecommuters.com/2008/09/03/recycletron-1000-another-week-another-load/)
We don't have curbside recycling where I live, but there is a county recycling center just across the county line from where I live. Usually we dump the stuff off once a month on our monthly town trips.

Aaron:)

Hey Aaron. That is some impressive stuff. A little effort can make a big difference. I don't see too many recycleables laying around my city. With a coupon (that's good for 5 days), you can get up to 90 cents a pound for plastics and $1.70+ a pound for aluminum cans.

Heck, you don't even need the recycling center to be open. They have an electronic dispenser built in to the outside of the container (recycling center). After you're done putting the items in, you receive a receipt in which you can redeem at a store in the shopping center. Me, I don't use that electronic crap. We even get people going through our recycling (trash) can to get CRV goodies.

They should know by now they aren't gonna find any money in mine. :D

i do not. i take it as spare room in backpack allows --- to recycling bins on local campus. still no recycling there for batteries nor light bulbs

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