Hello World!   Hope all is well today in your world. It’s warming up here so it feels so much better. In a few days we will be 80 degrees. Today is mid 60’s. Yesterday I woke up to 22 degrees. Tell me this is not schizophrenic weather?!?!?  Each of the 4 seasons in one week!  Today I am going to search ways to drive more traffic to my blog. I write well & believe my topics are interesting, but if I don’t start getting my blog out there, then I don’t know who’s reading it. I guess I need a mailing list but I may be jumping ahead of myself here. I want traffic!  A traffic jam would be fun!I also want to talk about recycling which is a part of my life, but even tho we do this, we may not be doing it entirely right. I always wonder what my garbage company really does with the recycling material they pick up? Do they really recycle?  When I leave this world, I want to have left a small foot print & I believe recycling helps with that. Who knows? Here’s some good info I found about recycling… 

Most People Aren’t Recycling Properly

Recycling is easy, but many of us make mistakes simply because we don’t know any better. But it saves your local recycling center loads of time & money if your goods are recycled properly. So, here are a few tips to help you clean up your recycling game:

Always rinse containers. Depending on the regulations at your local  recycling center, food-caked jars & containers may be sent straight to the landfill instead of being recycled. Think salad dressings, nut butters, ketchup, salsas—anything that sticks to the side of the container. Give them a quick rinse before you toss them in your bin to ensure they actually get recycled. If water conservation is an issue in your area, call your local center for advice. Most things can usually just be wiped out with a napkin or towel without any water whatsoever.

Take lids off everything. Lids must often be recycled separately from the  body of a container, so make sure you pop them off/unscrew them before tossing the goods into your blue bins–especially with mixed materials like glass & plastic. Otherwise, employees must spend hours sifting through trash in order to unscrew & separate lids. It doesn’t sound like a fun job, so do your part. It’s a lot easier on your end to take off a few lids than it is at the recycling center to take off hundreds.

Separate your goods. Most people understand the concept of separating paper, metal & plastics. But not everyone knows that all plastics are not recyclable. You know those little numbers inside the recycling symbol on plastics? Numbers 1 & 2 are usually accepted at all recycling centers & can be recycled relatively easily. Contact your recycling center for local information regarding numbers 4 & 5. As for 3, 6 & 7, it’s best to avoid buying these at all costs, since they can be too difficult & costly to recycle for your community, if they can be recycled at all. Most of the time, they go into the landfill.

Know what you cannot recycle. If you are unsure whether a plastic product can be recycled, don’t just guess. Find out. Unknowingly putting it in your recycling bin can inevitably lower the quality of the resulting recycled plastic material, which hurts your local recycling center financially. Get to know the policies of your local recycling center. While most things can be recycled, certain items need special attention. Check out Earth 911 for more information on how to recycle the following items:

-plastic shopping/produce bags (it’s best to try to avoid these anyways)

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I found this to be good info. Some of this I know & already do, & some I haven’t done because I didn’t know I should do it. Guess we are never too old to learn…

 

 

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