by Michelle C.

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Let's Play the Recycle Game !!!

March 14, 2008 05:29 AM EDT

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Let's see how Americans recycle and try to keep our country clean!

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Comments: 56

Michelle C. Mar 14, 2008, 5:30am EDT

I'll start off!

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Michelle C. Mar 14, 2008, 5:31am EDT

Aluminum Cans (beverage cans)

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Michelle C. Mar 14, 2008, 5:31am EDT

Paper

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Michelle C. Mar 14, 2008, 5:31am EDT

Batteries

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Michelle C. Mar 14, 2008, 5:31am EDT

Plastic bottles

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Ryan M. Mar 14, 2008, 5:32am EDT

Plastic Bottles

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Ryan M. Mar 14, 2008, 5:33am EDT

Soda Pop bottles although you can take them back to the store in my state for 10 cent returns

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Ryan M. Mar 14, 2008, 5:34am EDT

Vegetable cans

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Ryan M. Mar 14, 2008, 5:35am EDT

Newspapers

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:49am EDT

I recycle aluminum cans, brass and copper for money.....

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:49am EDT

we have a green bin system here in Omaha

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:50am EDT

they get newspapers

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:50am EDT

envelopes

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:50am EDT

junk mail, without addresses

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:51am EDT

holiday cards and wraps

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:51am EDT

toilet paper and paper towel center rolls

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:52am EDT

we have to take all glass to a recycling center, which I do monthly

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:52am EDT

oh yes, #1 and #2 plastics can go in the green bins too.....

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:53am EDT

I shred important papers and anything with names and addresses and acc't #'s and use it to start the fire on the grill....

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:54am EDT

and the ashes go back into the ground in my gardens

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 5:55am EDT

I save water from snow and rain to keep from having to use too much city water to grow my gardens

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Michelle C. Mar 14, 2008, 6:04am EDT

What kind of items are brass and copper? I hear it pays well. I'm just wondering what kind of items include these. I normally recycle aluminum cans, due to our recycling center here, not being the best one. :(

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Michelle C. Mar 14, 2008, 6:04am EDT

Sounds like you do well, Randee.

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Michelle C. Mar 14, 2008, 6:06am EDT

OH..wow, does the water work or make your plants die? :)

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 6:39am EDT

usually bathroom fixtures and some piping for water is brass,
and copper is in most wiring and some gas line pipes....

when people remodel, I ask them to go through there waste...

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 6:41am EDT

I actually go to a foundry here that buys all metal Michelle...
they pay "TOP" dollar for all metals...sometimes .50/pound more for aluminum, than some recycling centers...

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 6:45am EDT

as for water, we've been in a drought since 2000, we get some rain but nothing like the times before the drought started...

lucky number 7....
I think the drought will be ending very soon, I have noticed a lot of places are getting that winter time moisture...(also--1937 floods--I love history----everything goes in circles)

I totally regress....the rain water works much better on plants....no chemicals, and we have lots of those in our city water system...

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 6:49am EDT

we can recycle all of our paper through our city recycling program....
being a newspaper carrier, 15 routes, they get all wrappings, excess ads you name it, cardboard boxes, product boxes....
magazines....

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 6:52am EDT

++++++

I get all of the aluminum cans from the stores in the neighborhood (10)
and of 300 newspaper customers, about 50 also save their cans for me too....
and I pick them up off of the streets,,,Keep Omaha Beautiful!!!

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Beth - Doing God's work Daily J. Mar 14, 2008, 7:19am EDT

everything thru freecycle

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 7:23am EDT

we also recycle the steel vegetable cans through the green bin system too..............

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 14, 2008, 7:24am EDT

not too bad for a staunch non-tree hugging conservative, huh???

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Linda G. Mar 14, 2008, 7:48am EDT

coffee grinds go into the compost pile or garden

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Denise B. Mar 14, 2008, 8:32am EDT

wow Randee you are GREAT!

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Marianne R. Mar 14, 2008, 9:27am EDT

I use rechargeable batteries.

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Thomas Millington Mar 14, 2008, 9:53am EDT

I don't do as well in this area as I should.

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Kimber L. Mar 14, 2008, 9:55am EDT

magazines

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Kimber L. Mar 14, 2008, 9:55am EDT

cardboard anything!!! (poptart boxes, big box our hdtv came in frozen food containers) our recycle place takes all cardboard.

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Kimber L. Mar 14, 2008, 9:56am EDT

we don't have recycling at my office so i take all the office recycling home and put it with my own at the house and it is picked up out of recycling container!

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Mary M. Mar 14, 2008, 10:39am EDT

Just about everything that is 'recyclable' (is that a word?) and we reuse as much as possible too!

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Renee (Pres of Baby James Foundation) ~. Mar 14, 2008, 10:59am EDT

I just recycle cans

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Ginger C. Mar 14, 2008, 12:01pm EDT

I use canvas bags at the grocery store, instead of plastic, and newspaper to line my trash cans. Compost everything I can! We have to haul our trash to the dump, we have a wood chipper for big stuff we cut down this year, will go back into the yard!

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Lisa (I love loons) C. Mar 14, 2008, 2:56pm EDT

my husband and son are at the recycle center now selling their copper wire.

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gaelyn k. Mar 15, 2008, 2:03am EDT

books-donate to library

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gaelyn k. Mar 15, 2008, 2:03am EDT

magazines - leave at doctors office or hair place

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Chris W. Mar 15, 2008, 9:47am EDT

potato peels, grapefruit peels, stale lettuce, broccoli stems, apple cores, coffee grounds, tea out of tea bags, it all goes into a bin under the sink which I empty once or twice a day in a compost pile behind the garden in the back yard.
NO MEAT PRODUCTS- those go into the garbage because we would get racoons and possums if we did that.

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Priscilla (wishing I was in Costa Rica) ~. Mar 17, 2008, 12:24pm EDT

I recycle all printer cartridges here at work & tell people to bring theirs in from home as well

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Priscilla (wishing I was in Costa Rica) ~. Mar 17, 2008, 12:25pm EDT

books, I use www.paperbackswap to recycle books & to get more books for myself.

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Priscilla (wishing I was in Costa Rica) ~. Mar 17, 2008, 12:26pm EDT

I bring my own bags to the grocery store (at least most of the time), and when I forget & use the crappy plastic bags from WalMart, I return them to the store because they recycle them.

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 18, 2008, 6:48am EDT

I request that my newspaper customers return newspaper bags, and I reuse them until they are worn....one of the grocery stores I go to collects plastic bags, so these end up there...

at Halloween I stuff the worn out bags with wadded up newspaper, then stuff them into old clothes, that will go to the Salvation Army, and I build monsters in my yard to scare the trick or treaters...

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 18, 2008, 6:52am EDT

I compost....
using many food items like egg shells, coffee grounds, fruit and vegetable peels, to help turn lawn clippings into good old dirt again...

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Mar 18, 2008, 6:54am EDT

the majority of my garden flowers are low maintenance, especiall needing less water...

but I do have numerous rose bushes,,,and they require daily waterings...
and we like to grow a vegetable and spice garden too.

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Matt L. Mar 18, 2008, 8:39am EDT

I recycle paper, cardboard, cans, bottles, plastic, use rechargeable batteries, the flurascent (how ever it's spelled) bulbs

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j - Frugal Mom - r. Mar 18, 2008, 3:05pm EDT

We recycle paper, cans, bottles and batteries. When I go for my walks I collect bottles and cans and bring them home. The plastic bottles go in the recycling container (the coke and pepsi caps I keep). Once in a while we bring all of our cans to a recycling center and the money goes into our boys' college savings.

I also reuse grocery plastic bags as garbage bags, and I reuse our zip lock bags.

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