[KarlInOhio]

I don't do it, do you?

I do because the local trash company makes it largely painless. They have recycling bins which all the recyclables go into (no separation) and it is just as easy to toss my newspapers, magazines, boxes and drink containers into the recycling can as the regular trash can. Does it do any good? I don't know, but like it said it takes almost no work on my part. For all I know both halves of the trash truck get shoved into the same landfill.

[Uncle Chip]

I do because the local trash company makes it largely painless.

Same here. All cans, bottles, plastics, paper get thrown together in one big container and rolled out to the street and they separate it all at the facility. Garbage is thrown in trash bag separately. They make money off the recyclables and that keeps the trash pickup costs down. One truck takes the garbage to the dump and the other to the recycling faciliity.

I like it.

[sheana]

And every ounce that you voluntarily recycle is sold by them to put more money in their pocket. I pay to have my garbage hauled off and I WILL NOT recycle so they can make money.

[grania]

KarlInOhio:

Here's a question from grania in Ohio. I'm told that before recycling cans, one is supposed to rinse them out. That means all the ingredients in people's food is getting into the sewer system and out to Lake Erie.

How does that help the environment?