Are you required to recycle in your area??

Not required, but highly encouraged. We are given 1 large trash can and 1 large recyling can (both are same size) Those are the only waste receptacles you can use. The recycling is all single sort, so you can just throw everything in it. But we have small garages in my neighborhood so a lot of people have refused the recycling can because it takes up so much room. They just use the one trash bin. I am in a fairly small town but on the outskirts of a large metropolitan area. I used to live in a really small town and we were allowed one garbage bag/can and if we had more, we had to purchase 'trash tags' for a dollar each and attach one to every extra bag of trash we had. But we had unlimited recycling of everything but glass. This was in a really small town surrounded by a lot of farmland, but they were very dedicated to recycling.

Yes, we are encouraged but not really compelled to recycle. There are people who are doing the recycling. What we are really required to do is to segregate our trash accordingly: recyclable garbage; biodegradable; and non-biodegradable. This way, there is an organized way of collecting the garbage. It is also good to collect the recyclable materials and sell it at the junk shop!

In my city, and more than that - in my country, recycling has only recently become available.
Until a couple of years ago, the only recycling done was that of scrap iron, collected thoroughly by nomad gypsies.
Recently, large plastic bins appeared on the streets, where people can take the paper, glass and PET containers. My belief is, however, that it's nothing more than an impression. The city authorities have made these containers available just to create the impression of a civilized city, that cares for the environment, and recycles these materials. The fact is I've seen garbage trucks picking up what was in these containers, and they were mixing it up along with the other rubbish...
It rises some not very nice feelings inside me to know that I and other fellow citizens have a civic conscience and select their garbage for recycling, while these morons don't care about it and put it all together... I'll keep on doing that, hoping that some day this recycling will be for good.

We have the option to recycle, which I have done for years now actually. It gets picked up seperately by the garbage man every other week. But we do get an incentive to recycle. It gets weighed and we can earn gift cards to various stores like local grocery chains, WalMart etc. There is a recycle station near me but the garbage man picks mine up so I don't use that facility at all.

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yeah in my area if we dont recycle we get abig ticket, i live in orlando and used to live in brooklyn and same thing there too, we have to recycle and actually we like doing so so we dont feel guilty in ruining this earth, i hope everyone recycles and going green thats the best option we have to preserve our great earth

We have big wheelie bins, one brown one is for compost waste and things like that, but as we have a compost pile in the garden we tend to use that instead. If my parents trim the hedges then all of the may go into the brown bin. We also got provided with a box for glass and cans, so we use that too but we also recycle paper. Some housing areas have different boxes than us.
I don't think we are doing enough though, I think it should be strictly compulsory that hosues recycle glass and tins, after all they are the easies things to recycle. I think the worst thing is plastic, I think if we could work out a way to provide people with boxes for particular plastics it would do a lot of good. Plastic carrier bags are a nuisance and people throw them away when they tear, if only they had a box to put it in it would save a lot of rubbish.

I have recycling station near my house. I take my drink tare and paper waste here. Other, so-called bio waste is disposed in ordinary container and is taken directly to landfill. I think that all people must recycle their waste, if they are given such opportunity. It is good for our mother Earth and for us too, because we pay less money for bio waste container then.

In my area and surrounding areas we are required to recycle and compost. We are only allow 1 bag of garbage per household. If you have more than one you have to pay to bring it to the dump (drive to the dump and pay 10$ to drop one bag off - really not worth it since the dumps 40 mins away). We have a blue box which holds cans, bottles, etc and a black box which holds the paper, cardboard, etc. We also have the green box which is for compost. Which you can out bascally all scrap foods in it.

In my city, we have a "No segregation, no collection policy", which means if my garbage isn't segregated (biodegradable & non-biodegradable), they will not collect it..which is why in some parts of the city, there's uncollected garbage everywhere..dirty? yap! in my country you can say much of us are irresponsible..sigh..:(

we're actually not required to recycle, but we are required to segregate our trash before the trash truck arrive and pick it up. It would be nice to recycle though, it's nice to be able to help save mother earth.