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iRecycle, You Recycle, We All Recycle?

Posted December 16, 2009 8:33 AM

This nifty new recycling machine is designed to get more people recycling their bottles and cans. The machine takes approved items and then spits out a receipt which consumers can take to certain outlets for redemption. The company producing the machine is also rewarding consumers with prizes by selecting submitted receipts at random. Do these machines encourage recycling or just make it easier for people who've already committed to it? What other incentives can manufacturers offer to get more people to recycle rather than just toss their bottles and cans?

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Re: iRecycle, You Recycle, We All Recycle?

12/17/2009 12:07 PM

Make my trash worth enough cash and I will recycle everything!

Until then everything goes in the boiler as additional heating fuel and the Ash's go on the ash pile to fill in a low spot behind the back yard.

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12/18/2009 4:39 AM

And what happens to the receipt after redemption - landfill?

Why not issue a few coins instead of a non-recyclable receipt?

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Re: iRecycle, You Recycle, We All Recycle?

12/18/2009 12:48 PM

we invested in a company, and eventually ran the company for a few years, paid cash for Alum Can .5 to 2cents per can, even at .5 the Consumer response was good!, Boy/Girl Scouts & local PTA's used it for fund raising etc. but without major sponsor $, it does not work as a business.

PS this was in a non-bottle bill state

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Re: iRecycle, You Recycle, We All Recycle?

07/11/2012 2:19 AM

Protect the environment, protect ourselves!

Everybody knows waste paper and used coke cans are discarded everywhere. You might have seen plastic bags flying in the sky and getting caught in the trees when the wind blows or maybe you have seen old cans floating in the rivers and polluting the water. Our environment is the place where we live in, but it being ruined by us.

There is a story about house and trees. It is said that a man's house was surrounded by a lot of trees. Though the wind is strong, the man can have a good rest under the trees. How comfortable the life was! One day, the man wanted to enlarge his house, so he cut off all the trees. When the winter comes, the strong wind blow away his roof, and the whole house was gone with the wind. That's the price people have to pay for the destroying in the ecology balance.

People should not be short-sighted. Protect the environment is every body's task.

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