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When you and your SO do not agree on recycling.

kenny

kenny

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If he or your kids do not care, would you pull their aluminum cans and other recyclables out of the trash and transfer them to the recycling bin?

Or would you just recycle your stuff and let their go to the landfill?
 
Date: 5/2/2010 12:38:13 AM
Author:kenny
If he or your kids do not care, would you pull their aluminum cans and other recyclables out of the trash and transfer them to the recycling bin?

Or would you just recycle your stuff and let their go to the landfill?
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We''re equally concerned with recycling so no conflict there. We recycle as much as we can but we''re far from fanatics. I will admit to not caring enough to take stuff out of the trash, though...yuck!
 
Our area only just got on the recycling thing last year or the year before, so we didn''t have a choice before then. And technically, we still do, we don''t have to take the paper/glass etc out. But..we have to put our recyclables in specific blue *plastic* garbage bags. Hello? And they''re very super specific about what we can recycle. Just b/c it''s paper/cardboard/aluminum doesn''t mean they''ll allow it. I don''t think I should need to take a class at the community college to recycle.

We don''t really disagree necessarily on it..he just isn''t going to spend the time to put things in each of the different containers and to wash/rinse/dry things to put them in the recycle bags or take things apart to separate what can be from what can''t be.

We have differing views on the environment anyway.
 
FI and I are pretty much equally recycling minded. His brother is staying with us this weekend and I''m constantly pulling water bottles out of the trash.

It''s much more difficult at work. We have recycling containers right next to the trash cans in our kitchen/break room yet most people STILL don''t recycle their crap. I''ve been known to pull Lean Cuisine boxes out of the trash to recycle on multiple occasions. I''m thinking about making a little sign that says: "Guess What? The box your frozen meal came in is recyclable! So is the little plastic tray you heated it up in. And so is the plastic silverware you used to eat it!"

So yes, I rarely have to pull anything out of the trash that my sig other has tossed, but I spend a lot of time doing it at work. I think it''s a laziness thing for my coworkers. Hmm, they could spend 20 seconds rinsing out their yogurt cup, or they could just toss it......
 
Where I am now everything goes into one bin - and I mean everything - there is nothing that doesn''t go in it from food to cardboard to plastic to gross things... all of it. then they dump it and people go through it all by HAND picking out what they want/need because they can get money for it, and in this way EVERYthing gets recycled. heck they have dogs in there eating whatever they want too and people go along and separate out bricks or whatever... It is weird but I will admit it''s very easy for me.

To answer YOUR question though I would say that it totally depends on what is important to you. If you are worried about your own conscience and you are compelled to recycle but you resent that your so doesn''t hold the same value - then it''s a bit of a tough choice. If you are more concerned with the earth then it is really more about getting the job done than who does it. I think the answer to your question lies not at all with your SO but in how important this is to YOU to have a green house.
 
okay more specific to me - I would and have taken cans and plastics out of the garbage and put them into the recycling - but only when they''re still in the house or its easy, I wouldn''t go waste deep in the garbage can to sort through it.
 
Gosh, we have no conflict over recycling ~ we''ve both recycled and composted for years, and it would feel freaky not to. Very little material makes into the actual garbage. We didn''t start out that way...the city makes us; it''s a requirement. The requirement has worked its magic on us, though -- at this point we''d definitely do it anyway.

But to answer your question: if my SO didn''t recycle...? I''d use persuasion.
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If that didn''t work, I''d do it for him, but I''d be really dramatic and annoying about it.
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We don''t have that conflict - we recycle what can be collected by our local authority recycling programme, take what can''t to the local recycling point (glass and clothes). Neither of us buys anything that comes in an aluminium can. We compost our kitchen waste and recycle (appropriate) waste food into eggs via our hens.

However, I can only be responsible for myself, so if DH didn''t want to recycle, that would be his decision. I wouldn''t like it and I''d probably whine about it, but I wouldn''t try to substitute his decision with my own.
 
My DH and I disagree, but it''s because he tries to recycle everything under the sun without regard to what items our city actually will process. some things I understand, like we can''t recycle #5 plastics (there''s a bin at Whole Foods though). But I find the most random stuff in the recycling bin -- hangers from the dry cleaner, tetra-paks, even used tissues (eeewwwww) -- no matter how many times I''ve explained it to him. So instead of picking recycling out of the trash, I end up picking trash out of he recycling. Doesn''t make me a happy camper.
 
We have to take all our recyclables down 20 floors, one little blue box at a time. So every week, we end up doing at the very minimum 5 trips up and down. And we still recycle every little thing.

Sooo, with that said, I would certainly make sure I transfer all of SO''s recyclable items and put it in th appropriate box. And then make him go dump the box in the recycle room.
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(although, both hubby and I are recyclers, and he always takes the recycling bin down!)
 
We are forced to recycle. It''s something we''ve always done, but our municipality has set it up such that you are only allowed a small amount of garbage to be collected every *2* weeks. So we have 3 recycling blue boxes, yard waste collection, and a kitchen waste compost container. The recycling is collected weekly. Really, there is not much "garbage" leftover if you are doing your recycling properly.
 
I don''t know why anyone would have a problem with recycling.

We are only allowed 1 bag of garbage a week. It basically ensures that everyone recycles. When we lived in an area with no pick-up, we still recycled. DH would load it in the truck and drive it to the recycling center about 30 min away.
 
I grab the stuff I see on the top of the trash and try to proactively direct things into recycling before he throws them away, but I don''t sort through all the trash--I think about though and if I see something I"ll dig it out
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I think I would just say, "Please put [x] in the recycling." Would your SO disregard such a request? DH and I both ask each other to do stuff like this when it hasn''t occurred to the other person. If it''s for a good reason, then it becomes a house rule. And with the kids, the rules apply!
 
I''ve always been into recycling but my husband hasn''t, unfortunately. We''ve lived in apt/condo complexes that didn''t recycle, so I think he just doesn''t think it''s that important. I won''t go digging through the trash to recycle something he tosses in there, but it does bother me.
 
I would ask them to recycle, and explain why its important to me and to the environment. If you can toss it in a bin, its not to hard to toss one bin over in the recycling bin. That being said, my SO and I are on the same page, so its not too much of an issue.
 
My kids'' school has assemblies on recycling at their school and so they recycle EVERYTHING. Well, mostly everything. Sometimes a milk jug ends up in the garbage and I move it over to our recycling bin.

My husband is very much a recycler, as well. Our bin is picked up every other week and always is full.
 
If I cared about recycling, I would make sure that my husband and (theoretical) kids respected my wishes and recycled also... whether they cared about it or not. It''s obviously not a difference of opinion since I can''t imagine why anyone would be opposed to recycling, so it''s just a matter of laziness. Obviously, I couldn''t "punish" my husband, but I would punish the kids if it became an issue. They would be forced to pull out the recycling from the trash themselves, and I would probably make them pull out their dad''s stuff too.


That being said, we don''t recycle, but I would like to start. The only disagreement my husband and I have at the moment is that I save all our grocery plastic bags, meaning to take them to the grocery store for recycling, but they just pile up in our pantry. My husband gets annoyed with the huge pile and asks to throw them away, and I say, "oh pleeeease let me take them to the grocery store. I promise I''ll take them!" and them I forget to take them. totally my fault.
 
Auckland''s really got it''s act together in the last couple of years with recycling- each house hold gets a massive wheely rubbish bin for recyclables which gets collected at the curb every two weeks and pretty much anything that could be recycled is accepted.

BF is English and not really used to recycling so is never certain of what can an can''t be recycled, so I admit to fishing bits and peices like coke bottles and scrap paper out of the bin rather then lecturing him about what can and can''t be recycled.
 
Date: 5/2/2010 6:09:14 PM
Author: Guilty Pleasure
If I cared about recycling, I would make sure that my husband and (theoretical) kids respected my wishes and recycled also... whether they cared about it or not. It''s obviously not a difference of opinion since I can''t imagine why anyone would be opposed to recycling, so it''s just a matter of laziness. Obviously, I couldn''t ''punish'' my husband, but I would punish the kids if it became an issue. They would be forced to pull out the recycling from the trash themselves, and I would probably make them pull out their dad''s stuff too.



That being said, we don''t recycle, but I would like to start. The only disagreement my husband and I have at the moment is that I save all our grocery plastic bags, meaning to take them to the grocery store for recycling, but they just pile up in our pantry. My husband gets annoyed with the huge pile and asks to throw them away, and I say, ''oh pleeeease let me take them to the grocery store. I promise I''ll take them!'' and them I forget to take them. totally my fault.
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my dh and I have had that same conversation in the last paragraph above lol He and I are not on the same page and darnit, it isn''t always about respecting MY wishes - he has his own damn wishes and thinks he should get to exercise them!!!!
 
Yeah, this is a tough one.
I think we need to respect the wishes of others.
Just because I think recycling is the right thing to do and worth the small effort does not mean I can control another person in the home.
 
LOL. It''s funny this topic came up now. FI and I had a blow-out fight the other night b/c the recycling was overflowing and instead of him taking it out, he just put the recycling in the regular trash. I was furious.
 
I live in a complex where we pay for a recycling company to come in, separate from the company that comes in to take our trash. They come on the same day and since I work from home I tend to notice things that go on during the day. It dawned on me one day that if the trash company came first they actually took not only the garbage from the big brown cans we out out behind our garages, but also emptied the blue bins too. When I asked the management company about this they said that the garbage company sorts the trash and does recycling too, so I asked the obviously question, why do we pay a separate company to empty the recycling bins then? The answer: Because it "makes people feel better." WTF???

Anyway, I digress (sorry Kenny!). To answer your question, I guess I would make *some* effort (although not an *heroic* one!) to get stuff out of the garbage and put it in the recycle bin. So, if there was a Diet Dr. Peper (my breakfast of choice!) can sitting on the top of the other trash I would move it over, but I''m not going elbow deep to get stuff out of the trash.
 
I would pull it out and recycle it yup - but luckily we''re mostly on the same page about recycling
 
SO and I are both big on recycling (and even bigger fans of the two superior R''s - reducing and reusing) so we recycle everything we can. I actually pulled some bottles out of the trash this morning (one even had gum stuck to it.... ew) from some people we had over last night who threw them in the trash.
 
Date: 5/2/2010 8:14:34 PM
Author: kenny
Just because I think recycling is the right thing to do and worth the small effort does not mean I can control another person in the home.
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Oh, c''mon. You''re underestimating yourself.
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I can only control the 10,000 ladies here on Pricescope.
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They all worship and adore me.
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We are pretty much on the same page now. Before I moved in with DH (then FI), he didn''t recycle much. But I''ve gotten him to recycle much more. Getting the Inlaws on board was harder, and I''ve taken recycleable things out of the garbage can for them. They are getting better at it, but I don''t always get a chance to double check on the garbage can.
 
What about if you live in a block of units and share bins?

We are in the situation where there are 9 units in our block and someone is consistently throwing their regular garbage into the communal recycling bins. This annoys me to no end as we don''t have a shortage of space in our regular bins and it isn''t any more difficult to access the regular bins either. The body corporate has received warnings and fines from the council and I believe that we are close to having our recycling bins revoked due to contaminating pick ups.

We''ve tried passive aggressive notes in letter boxes but each time I take down our recycling I see black plastic bags at the bottom of the bins and the stench of rotting food wafts up.

So frustrating!
 
Date: 5/3/2010 12:46:59 AM
Author: kenny
I can only control the 10,000 ladies here on Pricescope.
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They all worship and adore me.
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Oh, c''mon. You''re overestimating yourself.
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