Subject: Are you "green"?
Posted by: gtsnm
Date: Apr 22 09
Do you always turn off lights when you leave the room. Do you recycle? Do you take care of our earth?
Posted by: gtsnm
Date: Apr 22 09
Do you always turn off lights when you leave the room. Do you recycle? Do you take care of our earth?
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salami_swami 
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Usually, I don't turn lights off. I turn them off if I won't be in the room for a LONG period of time, but if I won't be gone long, I will leave them on. Turning lights on and off takes more energy then to keep them on, so... I don't recycle, it cost money, and my parents don't buy it. We shred paper, mostly, I think. I do, anyway. I guess, really, I'm not, although I should be. I have started making adjustments, you know, but I need to do more. Reply #1. Apr 22 09, 10:04 AM |
longcoolwoman2
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I try to be as "green" as possible. We recycle, use low-energy bulbs, take our own bags to the grocery, and have made our home as energy efficient as we can afford to. Reply #2. Apr 22 09, 11:29 AM |
romeomikegolf
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Salami, why does recycling cost you money? Our local council collects all our recyclable stuff every week and doesn't charge for it. Since we started to recycle glass, cans, paper and card we have reduced our general waste by 50%. There is very little we cannot recycle. Reply #3. Apr 23 09, 2:19 AM |
dippo
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Our local council only collects recycling if it's left in a special green box. Flats (apartments) used to be exempt from this requirement, as they had nowhere to keep the box, and could put out their recycling in plastic bags. Now the council have stopped collecting at all if it's not in the box, although they didn't tell anybody this. Good to see they're supporting our efforts. Reply #4. Apr 23 09, 4:34 AM |
Lottie1001
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Our local council only collects paper and card, from the kerbside in a special green box. Everything else (glass, tins, aluminium foil, plastics and cartons) has to be taken to the local recycling centre, which is currently about a mile away, but is threatened with closure within the next year. Reply #5. Apr 23 09, 5:07 AM |
daver852
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For most products, recycling is just silly. It doesn't do anything except make tree-huggers feel good about themselves. It's very inefficient, and in many cases the cost of recycling exceeds the cost of producing new products. The only way I'd recycle is at gunpoint; something that may be lurking in the near future. Orwell was off by 30 years. Reply #6. Apr 23 09, 8:35 AM |
| fontenilles
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No Daver I don't think recycling is silly and what's wrong with giving a tree an occassional hug? Whats sad is that so much waste, seperated for recycling ends up in the rubbish tip regardless of the care some have taken to seperate or deliver it to the right place. There is an area in the Pacific ocean the size of the USA which is a floating continent of plastic and other unbiogradable items. I know it's scary and the marine life find it very scary and deadly and if it carries on so will we! Robin Robin Reply #7. Apr 24 09, 4:02 PM |
Anton
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Humans are too vain. Some think we can "save" the world. What they don't realize is that the world does need "saving." It will be here long after we are gone. Reply #8. Apr 24 09, 4:20 PM |
| jacquie38
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Some days I'm quite purple! Reply #9. Apr 24 09, 5:42 PM |
poneke
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I'm with Robin on the Tree-Hugging, also think that if more of us people hugged each other we'd all be better off. Here's a wiki-link to the Gyre of rubbish some report as being the size of Texas! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch The ecological consequences of a global population being able to live a consumerist lifestyle currently enjoyed by the relative few, mainly western nations; is that this would contaminate our planet in just one generation. Those of us doing the damage need to pressure our own suppliers to use less packaging or we don't want their products, source ingredients and goods from fair-trade organisations, buy less and make it fresh and talk about the fact you want affordable organic alternatives. Rather than expect or wait for Govt's to 'fix everything'; make it a point to let companies know why you may consider not buying their goods. Ring those consumer free-phone numbers and start hassling the execs or sales reps or whoever you have to so that they know 'we' the consumer expect better from them! Doing what you can is better than doing nothing at all....apathy is the best friend of big-business interests and the most dangerous of enemies for the long term health of our third rock from the sun. (Monsanto:in India where GM crops are giving the farmers all sorts of weird illnesses and skin disorders,what is it doing to the soil and us ?!) Reply #10. Apr 24 09, 9:28 PM |
| romeomikegolf
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Anton, the planet may well be here long after our generation has gone, but will it be fit to live on? Not all countries have the space to dump rubbish at the rate we are doing it now. Recycling reduces the amount of rubbish that is sent to landfill. How would Americans feel if the Grand canyon was suddenly used to deposit millions of tons of rubbish that is thrown away every day. We can send you some of ours if you don't worry about it. Reply #11. Apr 24 09, 11:04 PM |
| Anton
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"Anton, the planet may well be here long after our generation has gone, but will it be fit to live on?" I guess I should have said after all people, not just us here now. We won't be here forever. Reply #12. Apr 24 09, 11:30 PM |
| fontenilles
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Poneke i read a trusting mag and it said it was rge size of the USA (New scientist) As for hugging I'll go hug a tree now and hope we can have a hug later ((((hugs)))Promise I won't go for your roots :) Robin Reply #13. Apr 25 09, 4:19 PM |
| Christinap
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We now have three dustbins supplied by the Council.One is for compostables (garden rubbish and food waste), one for recyclables (glass, cans, paper, cardboard and some plastics) and one for non recyclables. I also have 4 compost bins in the garden. I also belong to a Freecycle group and it operates on the basis of if you have something you no longer need don't chuck it away, see if someone else can use it. When we re-did a bedroom all the old bedroom furniture went that way to a young couple buying their first house who were delighted with it. The whole idea is you don't charge anything, you give it away. Reply #14. Apr 25 09, 5:28 PM |
| poneke
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hahahaha! . . . That was truly wicked Robin :-) Reply #15. Apr 25 09, 7:34 PM |
Humanist
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poneke hit the nail on the head: "The ecological consequences of a global population being able to live a consumerist lifestyle currently enjoyed by the relative few, mainly western nations; is that this would contaminate our planet in just one generation." Americans don't get it, as usual. The problem with our lifestyle is that every Chinese and Indian wants to emulate the American dream. It is not sustainable. It never was. Our homes are full of junk that we don't need as we lose sight of what is truly important. I rely upon my car to work. I have regular oil changes and tune-ups, rotate my tires and practice preventive maintenance, but it is small comfort to realize that if I didn't do my job somebody else would. We are guilty of an incredible amount of waste. I learned my recycling practices in Seattle where we even collected scrap metal to recycle once a month. But it all seems like a drop in the bucket everytime I read about some catastrophic industrial accident. Reply #16. Apr 25 09, 10:06 PM |
Jabberwok
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We now have three dustbins supplied by the Council. One is for compostables (garden rubbish and food waste), one for recyclables (glass, cans, paper, cardboard and some plastics) and one for non recyclables. I also have 2 compost bins in the garden, and a worm bin that can cope with some of the stuff I can't compost. I donate stuff we've finished with to charity shops, buy books second-hand, don't leave things on standby, I walk to work three times out of 5. We only have one car, and don't throw food away because I know how much each member of my family can eat and only prepare that amount. I'm sure I do other things but they are so automatic I can't remember them. I don't want to live in a rubbish tip, and I like putting a bit of thought into how I live. I've been doing this for over three decades and that others find it odd, foolish or a waste of time hasn't put me off. There are a lot more individuals thinking about trying for a sustainable lifestyle in Britain now than there were 30 years ago...even my parents use their bins correctly and occasionally eat a meatless meal. Reply #17. Apr 26 09, 1:39 AM |
| Jabberwok
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As for America not getting it, I've had a thought. Other than them being a spectacularly consumerist society. The United Kingdom has over 60 million people in an area slightly smaller that Oregon. Do you think that may have an impact on our understanding of the need to live a more sustainable lifestyle? Much more immediate and in your face. I remember my parents having a friend from the States to stay. She arrived late at night and tired, but she went inside and then came out and walked down the garden path, looking back at the house. Astonished, she said 'You live in HALF A HOUSE?' Never come across semi-detached before, far too much space where she came from to bother with terraces or semis. Reply #18. Apr 26 09, 1:47 AM |
C30
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Whilst most of us are perfectly happy to recycle what we can, some councils seem to hell bent on making it as difficult as they can, or maybe doing the minimum for the maximum (financially). We too have all manner of waste bins, for all sorts of waste.........the green one for garden waste.........WARNING do not have ANY dirt in in or else they refuse to empty it, as I found out to my cost when putting leaves in raked up from flower beds - I no longer bother using this bin. Reply #19. Apr 26 09, 2:28 AM |
| funnybuni
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I don't recycle, either. It costs money here in the country (it truly does), and I can't afford it. It also costs money to have the garbage man come once a week and pick up your trash, hence why I burn mine. So no, I am not "going green" in the slightest. I think that global warming is a huge hoax, so while I think the planet could use some cleaning up, I am not bending over backwards to clean it up right now, though. Reply #20. May 02 09, 11:09 PM |
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