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Originally Posted by KathieI
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4] Let's take large plastic bottles for instance:
b) generally they only recycle large containers over 8 oz. and over. so anything smaller also gets tossed
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Just on that basis alone, more than half of my stuff would have been tossed.
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d) if any bottles contain labels or caps they must be removed, especially if the label contains any metallic substance in its substrate
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Most of my larger containers had labels so they would have been tossed too.
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e) then there is probably a very detailed SOP guidelines they must process in order to assure that the recycled material does not contain any contaminants, bacteria, or other harmful substances.
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At least one of my big containers had a label and had contained a poison-herbicide so that would have been tossed.
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This is only for plastic bottles. Now think about all the other types of materials, metal cans, alum cans, corrugate boxes, cereal or folding boxes, glass (which is probably the easiest material to recycle). Did I miss one??
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At most I only have one (dark green) glass bottle per month and it has a label on the front and back. I don't drink soda etc. so there are no alum cans. My steel-cut oats comes in cardboard but I only have about one or two per month and they will break down in a land fill.
Of that one bag, that took me several months to fill, there might have been only one or two items that they could use. So I'm not going to feel bad about not recycling.
Here's an idea: If in the future I have an item that seems worthy of recycling I might just put it out by itself with no bag. As a matter of fact, I just remembered, I did that once and it worked.