Recycling
 

We have magazines and newspapers that we would prefer to recycle rather than trash. Any ideas?

Take them to Publix. They have recycling containers outside of the store.

All village waste/recycling finishes up in the incinerator. Just bin it.

Seems "saving the earth" has gone out of fashion
 

Just a head up on those bins at the various Publix, they have become VERY picky, not sure if they even accept newspapers and magazine any more. United Methodist church behind 466 Publix USED to accept as much paper as people could bring, even had a large dumpster to deposit same, but think maybe that has stopped too ? In short, it seems that that "save the earth, there is little time left" warning on TV news, schools, even churches, has gone by the way side since it no longer PAYS BIG BUCKS ! Suddenly, how much waste we produce is not longer a priority. I recently hauled a large stash of empty water and soda bottles to Public only to find their "plastics" bin says "XXXX NO plastic water and soda bottles ! Don't know if there is any place that accepts these in The Villages, but if you know of a CLOSE place that does, please post it. Thanks.

But at WHICH "bins", can't find any lately that accept paper or even plastic bottles !

Sumter County landfill, about 8 miles south on 301 to 470 west, no charge for recycle.

I don't know what they accept, but there are recycle containers inside the building, but just outside of the Sumter County library entrance near Rt 466A and Powell Road.

Our trash pick-up (most of TV) recycles separating things recyclable and valuable$.
Yes they incinerate the combustible - generating electric power.

CO2 is recycled by plants and trees*, making oxygen.

*the higher the CO2, the heathier and faster they grow = more oxygen for animals like us.

St Timothy Catholic Church Has large dumpsters in back which are good for newspapers and magazines

[QUOTE=gorillarick;2409666]Our trash pick-up (most of TV) recycles separating things recyclable and valuable$.
Yes they incinerate the combustible - generating electric power.

Am I understanding this correctly ? My village in Sumter Co. used to have residents separate and recycle some years ago now. THEN, we changed to this "new system" of putting anything and everything in one sack (any color and size as long as under 40#), so NOW people and machines have to separate all the egg shells, coffee grounds, orange peels, old batteries and unmentionable other types of waste to look for the "salvageable/useful items ?
Surely this is not the case ? What did I misread ?

What does this mean? Who does the separating? As another poster said, it all goes to the incinerator…………

Recycling by incineration is a good option as long as they don't pollute and generate energy.

When you find no one accepting paper, plastics etc, that is telling you that that process is not economically worthwhile.

I remember reading an article about the burning of trash for electricity generation for Sumter County in the not so distant past. The incinerators would be periodically cleaned out and because metal won't burn, the metal left after the burning process would be sold off as scrap.

The chimneys have "scrubbers" on them, so little to no pollution escapes to the atmosphere.

The energy generated is enough to power thousands of homes.

The metals are separated out for recycling.

The ash remaining is far less volume to the landfill than the original trash would have been.

So just throw your newspapers, magazines, plastic bottles, etc, into your garbage for the twice weekly pickup. At least this way you can be sure your plastics are not ending up in the ocean, like they did when we sent the recyclables to Asia for processing.

Go use for our trash.

I find it interesting that people (usually from other places) have been conditioned that they themselves have to recycle and it is a virtuous thing. Not considering that other forms of recycling, such as turning waste into energy may actually be a superior process. It is recycling in its truest form, all matter is energy. And we even benefit from it generating electrical power to lower our bill.

So true. We were initially shocked when we moved here and learned we didn’t have to separate everything out into 3 different bins like we did back home, plus right before we moved it got even stricter requiring us to have a small compost bin on the kitchen counter to keep food waste out of the other 3 bins. It took awhile before we stopped feeling guilty just throwing everything into trash bags here. We love it! We especially love not seeing large trash and recycle bins all over the street on trash days. Plus some that were always stored on driveways by the garage door despite being against the CC&Rs that were rarely enforced.

Are you sure these are available to the public?

St. Timothy's will take newspapers. I recycle my magazines at the recycle center on Jackson Rd. off Rolling Acres. I reycle pretty much everything I can there.

Not for newspapers and magazines.

I don't believe they take magazines. I think it is newspapers only.

This is Florida. They don't much care about recycling. I lived in California and we had a trash bin and a recycle bin. When I first moved here, they took recycling but now everything is incinerated. I take my recycling to the center on Jacson Rd. That is for Lake County. Not sure about Sumter.

It's not that they don't care. They just incinerate the trash to generate electricity...

Yep, California native here. Grew up in SoCal, and lived there until we moved here in Nov 2022. All of our family is there, so we go there a couple times each year. I like the trash system here. :)

The Publix at Colony Plaza does accept newspapers.

Almost all consumer plastics are just ethylene and trees are a crop. The best thing to do is incinerate them so to release the sequestered CO2 and water into the atmosphere so plants, thru photosynthesis, can produce oxygen and sugar.

BUT

polywood is all made from recycled plastic, Trex decking started from recycled plastic bags. . So recycling has its benefits as clean ethylene is easily melted to be reused again, which reduces the overall need to use new petroleum for products. The byproduct comparison is unusable ash versus usable products. .

Yeah, recycling is much more expensive than cheaper dump and burn, and the economic policy in the US is the cheapest answer wins, is not necessarily the best long term answer.

YMMV