BirdInFlight wrote:
Things like, I'm concerned about the environment and I know that things like recycling is important to not making such an impact, but sometimes I can't recycle everything nor go to extreme lengths to take it somewhere that will.
My local authorities require us to do a lot of washing-out of items or they themselves toss them in the trash if they're not perfectly clean -- seriously, this was shown on our news -- but when I'm using all the extra hot water to get mayo out of a greasy mayo jar, I start thinking how my carbon footprint is now BIGGER because I'm burning electricity using hot water I wouldn't be using if I just tossed the mayo jar.
So, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. It depends how much cleaning the item needs. I think the recycling facility should bloody well do the cleaning-out themselves instead of making us do it. There are rumours that locally our recycling is not in fact recycled at all, so I quite often resent that I can't just trust it's worth it.
Having a water meter has stopped me dead in my tracks from recycling most things. I have to pay to rinse them out? Yeh, well, thanks but no thanks.
I'm pretty sure cardboard is a waste of time to recycle too, I think they ship it.
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