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Recycling Super Tips for Guerilla Home Re-Users
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If you think the home is a place for single use containers, bottles, and water usage, guess again. Double use and triple use is the new black in sustainable living households. Aggressive re-use means going to dumpsters lengths to get recycled materials and use them organically.
Welcome to the era of re-use in the home, where any recyclable resource should be assessed and measured for re-use efficiency and planning for the re-use should begin at the original purchase or use. In this case, reduced services and processing and handling make an opportunity for public involvement.
2. Dump Hunting
The consumer waste business has shrunk to the point where it’s not worth the while of many services that normally perform the reclamation to continue. So dumpsters may be full of stuff that trucks no longer aggressively sort. Dumps are public resources that taxpayers and waste services customers can wade through for their own reasons.
So waste hauling trips paid for by citizens and county waste facilities will be heavier and there will be more of them. Raw lumber, casually tossed recyclable glass, and qualified plastics might be reclaimed by profit motivated city residents.
The companies by city managers or county waste supervisors that were hired under contract may be leaving prime materials in the dumpster. Services that might otherwise prowl alleys and dumpsters may not be able to afford the gas any longer to make those prowls.
The concerted effort gathering and sorting for recycling sorted waste and performing sorted recyclable collection by a company for value may not be happening. many of these business charge a fee to haul special loads and consumers may simply elect to throw the stuff in the dumpster and let the (wood) chips fall where they may.
This is an opportunity for newly organized groups to tackle dumpsters with construction waste, project material detritus, metal, plastic and glass that might be recycled. The fact is, many people who know better still place materials in the dumpsters that rightfully belong in special pickups categories or sorted to the appropriate materials bins.
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I love the idea of Guerilla recycling. It’s definately the new black. However, we’ve been doing similar things for quite some time now. We canibalise the computers we recieve to build new ones for re-use. Our own computers are built from used parts that we’ve recycled ourselves. Even at home, we’re recycling some of the wierdest things, but building a model railway means we can recycle stupid things to create our models.
more needs to be done to educate people to stop placing recyclable or reusable goods in the general waste. Segregating before general waste collections will increase the loads that dumpsters pick up, it is on the increase but needs to keep increasing.