# Does your community have Recycling Program?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-community-have-recycling-program/605233>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 6, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-community-have-recycling-program/605233 "2011-12-06T04:02:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-community-have-recycling-program/605233/61 "2011-12-13T19:10:50Z")

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At my family’s lake house in New Hampshire, there is no pickup at all. There are certain days and hours the dump–excuse me–“Transfer Station”–is open and you take your stuff there. There are different dumpster sized bins for glass, metal, plastic, paper, cardboard, and a big compactor for household trash. There is also an area to put things that other people may want to reuse. A friend of mine got his guitar there.

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**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-community-have-recycling-program/605233/62 "2011-12-13T20:01:00Z")

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We live in a very rural location. For us, recycling would be a waste of time and energy.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-community-have-recycling-program/605233/63 "2011-12-13T20:50:53Z")

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> [@OpalCat](#):
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> Why don’t you “bother” with it? This doesn’t make sense to me, but then, I view not recycling when it’s available as being about akin to littering. Of course if you litter, too, that won’t mean anything to you…

Perhaps he’s seen the Penn and Teller [Recycling episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTrJi9l3CM). I for one won’t be recycling paper any time soon.

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