I live in McDonough, Georgia, and I drink a lot of Monster Energy drinks. I collected the empty cans for about 6 months, and a have a really large amount now. I want to know how much these well ‘sell’ for to a recycling center. I have 16oz, 24oz, and 32oz cans.
I have heard from several people that the recycling center rejects (meaning throw out) any plastic bottles that still have the caps on them. I always thought this was absurd and looked online with little success. If anyone could provide some insight or final solution to this answer and hopefully a source of where they obtained this info that would be great.
My schools Green club is looking to help out the environment as well as make money for the club. Does anybody know of well paid recycling places in the 92020 CA area.
Just wondering, because when I see big stacks of paper and paper being wasted, I imagine trees and animals suffering for our needs. Also I was wondering how recycling helps out as well.
I am very interested to know how recycling works in an eco-village or a self sustainable community. Is there a recycling center? Send me links… and many details 
I have a T-mobile Compact 4 and have just upgraded to the new G2 phone. There was a recycling envelope with my new phone but it doesn’t tell me how much I might get, or how long it might take! Any ideas and is there a better deal for recycling phones on the internet?
I’m wondering how much impact personal recycling makes? I mean I make a strong effort to recycle in my small world, newspapers, batteries, cardboard, etc. Many of my friends and family do also. But I wonder in the world picture of polluting businesses, and indifferent countries and societies if my bagging those newspapers every week makes even a small dent in the world?
My husband and I recently purchaced a small business in a rual community. It is the perfect spot to set up a recycling center. I would like to know if their are grants available (federal or for the state of Illinois) to purchase and how to set up a recycling center.
When I put my recycling out every 2 weeks, we can put all of the different types of recycling together. But how does the paper get separated from the plastics and glass? Does someone manually do it, or is there a machine?
I found a broken cellphone and a lithium battery by the side of the road yesterday. I too it home, and out of curiosity, smashed it open with a hammer to see what’s inside it (it’s actually pretty cool. The inside of a cell-phone has an extraordinary amount of miniaturization in it, and in particular, the circuit board looks like a miniature version of the circuit boards I used to play around with as a kid). After I was done with that, I took a hammer to the battery (outside, of course, so that it wouldn’t burn anything important), and to my surprise, not only did it start leaking a clear fluid and giving off an odor that reminded me of the acid my podiatrist used to treat my ingrown toenail, but it got really hot.
So I was wondering, why did it get hot? Was it electricity stored in the battery (I’m not sure if the battery had power in it or not)? Was it heat from an exothermic reaction? And if the latter’s the case, what was reacting? The metal covering of the battery? The paper and plastic covering? The concrete under it? I’m curious what was generating the heat.
After I was done, I wasn’t sure what to do with it (I don’t think you can recycle punctured batteries) so I buried it, cleaned the hammer, and washed my hands. Also, I found today that I’d accidentally gotten a few drops on my shoe somehow and it burned the plastic covering of them (didn’t go all the way through to my feet, but the shoes are ruined and I feel like a damn fool).
I am talking about facilities where they pick up all the paper, cans, glass, cardboard, etc. together in one container at the curbside and then have to sort them all out at the facility. The citizens do not do any sorting of the recycling materials on their own.
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