Are you required to recycle in your area??

In my town in NJ we are required to recycle. But I know other towns in my state that don't seem to require recycling or at least is what people have told me. In my area, you can get ticketed if they find any materials in our garbage that can be recycled. We must recycle aluminum, plastic, glass, cardboard and paper. We also must recycle any grass clippings, branches, leaves etc. So when we clean up our yards we have big brown paper bags that we fill with all the leaves we rake up, the grass from lawnmowers and branches we clip or fall off the trees. We also recycle, batteries and other items, but those we need to actually bring to the recycle center, as they won't pick them up. I also recycle good clean clothes, linens, housewares etc, by giving them to different charity organizations.

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. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

Recycling is optional in my town but wish it was mandatory everywhere. If everyone was to do their part and recycle as much as possible, the landfills would never fill up. I don't even have garbage service myself cause just about everything we use is recycled. What small amount of actual garbage we do have is burned.

No, not where I live, but I sure as heck wish that they did as my family goes through massive amounts of paper, drink cans, and plastics.

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! Everyone in the State of California, whether they know this or not, is required to recycle. Why? Well, you money back, at least .05 for each can, glass bottle, or plastic bottle you turn in; it saves the environment, and many things are made from recycled materials. I recycle as much as I can because it is what we all need to do and I buy some recycled products as well. I think that we should all recycle.

We are required to recycle in our town. I think it depends on the state(or country for that matter) that you live in and your city's ability to run such a program. Most do it not because it's the law, or the green thing to do, & it makes your city MONEY! They cash in the cans, paper ect. Whereas if you had the room or the time you could save up newspapers & cans and turn them in yourself at a local junk yard and put the money in your own wallet.

Actually it's a required in our city that you segregate your trash. It's a color coding bag for the trash. That color would say if that is for recyle. We required to do that segregation. And I wish i could have more time to recyle all useful things in the trash. Remember that there is good money in junk! Happy myloting!

there are no recycle centers where i live it is small town no money for anything like that you can recycle pop can but you habe to haul them about 20 miles and that is so with scrap metals. but no paper or glass places or plastic i wish we did

In my country we have this junk shops where we sell our recyclable materials - cans, bottles, plastics, scrap papers, even electronics. This is the government's way of encouraging recycling, and our people's participation in saving the world. Even the big malls have participated too, and came up with programs like "trash to cash" - they also work as the junk shops, only this ones are bigger, centralized and pay better (or so they say). This is held at least twice a month. It works two ways - people are motivated to reduce clutters at home, and turn them into cash as well.

Yes we do have a recycle bin in our city where we are provided with two different bags one for products that can be recycled the other that cannot be and goes to the waste. We have a person in charge who walks door to door to collect these bags. I find this a very good method of disposal of garbage in a very efficient way and carried out systematically making both our home and city clean.

No, we don't i mean weren't really required but there was a program a few days ago about recycling materials near the community hall. but some where along the road that project didn't last and we went back to that garbage picking procedure that has no recycling process..

im advised to not required but i think we should be required by law... not rectcling is hearting ourself

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.

We're not required to recycle in this city but I do recycle cans. Yes, there is a place where I can take my cans and they will pay you for them according to how much they weigh. You can take several garbage bags full. I usually take about four. You can recycle tin, aluminum, brass, copper, etc. at this place. Kathy.

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.

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..:(