If I were you (or just me) I would only recycle the cans as they're the only things that are worth recycling. The rest is worthless, from what I've heard (from Bullshit!).

I live in a town of about 10,000 or so, and we pretty much have a shitty recycling system too. Bottles, cans, and newspapers only basically. Once or twice a year people from hazardous waste materials come and pick that kind of stuff up. I can't really think of any other ways to recycle though, It would be a help to me also.

If I were you (or just me) I would only recycle the cans as they're the only things that are worth recycling. The rest is worthless, from what I've heard (from Bullshit!).

welp you're wrong because they said glass, and you're wrong because Bullshit was wrong that entire episode.

Bullshit! is dumb.

If you can wash and reuse stuff, do that...it helps

The apartment complex I live in has no recycling program whatsoever, which really pisses me off.  I recycle EVERYTHING that is recyclable, and you'd be amazed at how little trash you throw away if you do this (about one grocery shopping bag of stuff every two weeks for me). 

Anyway, I recycle by stopping at the landfill on the way to my girlfriend's college.  I usually have a huge box full of stuff, and it only takes a few minutes.  The landfill is right along the way, and the recycling center is easy to get to. 

And I also reuse as much as possible, especially glass stuff.  I don't buy things that are bottled because it's such a waste.  Even if you recycle all the water bottles you drink from, you're still wasting. 

I really wish I could get the rest of my family to recycle too.  My dad is really good about it, but my step father is absolutely awful.  I find metal cans and other easily recycled things in the trash all the time.  Argh, it's not that fucking hard.

EDIT: Anyone who believes everything on Bullshit! is a tool.

For the metallic things just throw them into an open field an Nature will reabsorb them

My apartment was making a big deal out of doing something for Earth Day (and that one day only).  They're recycling SOMETHING, but it wasn't even worth anything.  It wasn't cans or plastic cartons or anything common.  I think they were asking for something obscure like glass.  And while glass is nice to recycle, it didn't seem like it was really worth recycling compared to other important things, like copper/plastic/aluminum.  I mean, forgive me if my understanding is wrong, but glass is made from sand, right?  So why are we so worried about that compared to something like plastic, since oil is so damn expensive right now?  Just my two cents.

--Terin

Here we have to (by law) recycle. It's only stuff like putting plastics/metals/glass seperate from foodstuffs, so it's no deal. Plus here we generally recycle foodstuffs as compost because we grow our own dandelions fruit and veg. Paper gets recycled/reused for the bottom of birdcage etc and I am using random rubbishs for my art. Also bottles and bags always get reused. Even cardboard boxes are contstantly reused, they're so useful.
At the moment though recycling is kinda useless here because we don't have a recycling plant nearby so it has to go quite a distance to get there, causing more pollution and shit and then the whole ineffective process of sorting out and making reusable makes recycling somewhat moot here at the moment.

We was gunna have a major state of the art recycling centre built a couple of miles out of town to service the county, but no, recycling plants damage the beautiful landscape, so that got scrapped. It's all fine to care for and protect the environment, we'll all do our part... but not within twenty miles of my house OR ELSE GRR. Those filthy recycling plants.

Please tell me you're kidding. PLEASE. Nature doesn't break down an aluminum can of soda for at least 200 years. Worse than that though is glass. It doesn't break down for over a million years. I feel kinda bad because my favorite drink (Fuze) is only sold in glass bottles.

My family does recycle paper, but we just had our glass/metal recycling bin stolen from us (yeah.. wtf) so we stopped recycling glass and metal. And why did "Bullshit!" say it's not worth recycling anything else?

I am not kidding. 200 years may be a lot of time to you but not to Nature. Just don't do it too often and you won't live in a mountain of trash.

hahah my old housemates had no idea how to recycle. we'd always have 'oops' notes indicating what we did wrong... for example we had:

"bicycles are not recycleable"

"leather bads cannot be put in the green box" (compost)

"please put the garbage in the garbage bin and the recycling in the blue box, not the other way around"


etc...

You won't need any equipment to dispose of trash or recycleables, you just need to drop it off at the right facility. Contact your city health department if you are unsure of where/if you have these facilities.

A few communities in my area are implementing an interesting incentive-based recycling program where you get coupons that can be redeemed at local supermarkets and businesses. It's a good idea, but it's too bad that the human race is so lazy that it refuses to do anything unless it sees PERSONAL BENEFIT

http://recyclebank.com/

i thought a clean planet WAS personal benefit...

A few communities in my area are implementing an interesting incentive-based recycling program where you get coupons that can be redeemed at local supermarkets and businesses. It's a good idea, but it's too bad that the human race is so lazy that it refuses to do anything unless it sees PERSONAL BENEFIT

http://recyclebank.com/

Yes, here in most parts of the USA you can gather up your cans and return them for hard cash. If you don't have a place close by, find the nearest one, and just make it a once in a while thing to bring a carload full of cans you've been storing in trashbags.