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I don't drink soda out of cans because my mom doesn't buy them in cans. I get free soda at work, so I drink them in those cup things, and when my mom buys soda she gets the 2 liters.

Aluminum is the best thing to recycle...I think aluminum pop cans are about 90-something percent recyclable. Most recycling is a joke.

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Originally Posted by rubah

Aluminium cans are one of the best things to recycle 1) because we go through so many of them and 2) you can make a lot of money off of them because you use so many!

I remember one vivid time in my youth when my dad and I took several trash bags full of cans to one of those green aluminium eating monsters and we spent maybe half an hour feeding cans into it and we came out of it with tens of dollars, somewhere between 13-30 I think?

My family has always had a special rubbish bin in the laundry room (which is really my mum's sitting room) for cans and another one for stuff I'm not really sure of the reasoning of, I guess it was originally things they didn't want to burn because the metal would wind up in our cattle's stomachs, but we stopped burning our rubbish a couple of years ago and now we don't have cattle. It usually winds up full of cigarette ashes and butts, vegetable cans, and dryer lint (laundry room, remember?). It's had a distinctive smell ever since I can remember, mostly of stale cigarettes.

But yeah, we used to drink a lot of coke (my brother was a big mt. dew fanatic and my sister loved dr. pepper and I'd drink almost anything also my dad, and my mum partook of many a diet coke) but now my siblings are gone, my dad and I pretty much swore off coke(well until I came to college!) so it's mostly diet coke that goes in there, and there's fewer bags each fortnight, but we still ship them off to my granny sue who is retired and hmm, impoverished so they're a small supplement.

But I just can't understand why you'd just throw good aluminium in the trash. I guess it's just how I was raised.

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and its just incase you can be bothered to go to a recycling bin really

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Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight

not even worth recycling.. theres still lots of aluminium ore

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Hiding under nasty old trees that need to be stripped out of the way so we can mine!

Please stop talking about the differences in spelling/pronounciation. You can take your pretentiousnesses to another thread, if it realy means that much to you.

Saying Aluminium gives the impression that you wear sandals with socks.

I don't recycle much, the Earth doesn't need me.

Personally I think recycling paper and wood is more important. But anything that is recyclable should be recycled.

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Originally Posted by Evastio

Personally I think recycling paper and wood is more important. But anything that is recyclable should be recycled.

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i agree.. there is more than enough aluminium left in the world.. trees is something else though

I recycled while in NZ, but I hardly ever recycle in the UK. The system is not user-friendly at all. you can even dump paper into the paper bins here because they're locked up, so you have to be sure it can fit into the little hole just to be able to recycle at all.

There is no remotely convenient aluminium recycling method where I live, so all our aluminium stuff goes in the regular trash.

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Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight

not even worth recycling.. theres still lots of aluminium ore

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Thats what they said about buffalo...sort of

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Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight

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Originally Posted by Evastio

Personally I think recycling paper and wood is more important. But anything that is recyclable should be recycled.

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i agree.. there is more than enough aluminium left in the world.. trees is something else though

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uhm...does the term 'renewable resource' mean anything to you?

Anyway, recycling paper is so inefficient and pollutes the environment with it's byproducts that it's a waste of energy. BUT we're not talking about paper recycling.

It's Aerith's Knight, I'm not bashing or anything but he doesn't know what he's talking about at times.

doesnt really matter.. i dont recycle anything.. its not that common here..

and there is way more ore then there were ever buffalo's :p.. its not gonna run out in the next 200 years.. let them solve that problem

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Originally Posted by Raebus

It's Aerith's Knight, I'm not bashing or anything but he doesn't know what he's talking about at times.

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ow im sorry.. that i didnt know how the process of paper recycling went, because I DONT CARE.. the word recycling, as in re-use, made me believe it was a good thing..

psh how dare i?

It's okay, I'll just ignore the sarcasm and tell you "Yes, how dare you! Perform the self killing act right now to make up for it!" =3.

maybe i should just go and learn about all the processes in the world and whether they harm the enviroment.. because thats what i like to do with my free time.. doing things i dont really give a rats furry bottom about