My neighbor is remodeling, we stole his trash to recycle a lot of it

[Omaha Steve]

I sent him at text at work and he said go for it. Most of it was boxed up and ready to go. We just slid it across the street to put with blue bins so it met the civic pick up requirements. The photo is what we salvaged and was curb side picked up this morning. Our own recyclables will get picked up Friday. We have a 96 gallon container on wheels we pay for to get ours picked up.

[dorkzilla]

1. Mother Earth thanks you!

I swear my neighbors probably think I’m BATTY...cereal boxes, flyers, aluminum foil, not to mention bottles, cans and the seemingly endless flood of Amazon delivery boxes all go to the curb every Tuesday!

[Arugula Latte]

2. Good job. I do that kind of stuff too. It drives me BATTY when people throw out

recyclable stuff or stuff that really should be donated to a charity. Aaargh! Such laziness.

[jeff47]

3. Sometimes, charities don't make it easy.

We're still trying to figure out how to get rid of our old stroller, infant seat and infant swing without just throwing them in the trash. Charities won't take them.

[shanti]

4. craigslist, freecycle

or just put it on the curb. i put a large sectional couch on the curb one year (for our thrice yearly large item pickup), and 15 minutes later, a young fellow was pushing it down the street...by himself!

[jeff47]

7. Sure...until the random person uses it.

The reason charities won't take such items is liability. Put it out with a big "free" sign on it and we're in the same boat.

[Matariki]

6. Craigslist has a FREE section

at least in my area free stuff gets snagged up quickly. I've given away everything from old furniture to big pieces of scrap lumber.

[Contrary1]

8. I have put items up on Freecycle that my husband swore nobody would want

Rocks that they had to shovel
Broken bricks for clean fill
Rusted metal support for shed doors
Clothes
Artificial Christmas trees
Toys that were missing pieces
Strollers and car seats
Framed pictures
Someone even wanted an old cement planter that was missing the pedestal

So much other stuff that I can't remember

Much of the above was found in other people's trash. It's appalling to me to see so much waste. My husband and I put out one kitchen trash bag a week for the garbage. Our neighbors, a family of just three, have 4-5 of the large bags every week.

[bvar22]

5. Oh No!

I could use all that unpainted cardboard to suppress weeds in our Veggie Garden!

Just Kidding.

It is the people who Go-the-Extra-Distance that make a difference in this world.
Kudos to you and your crew.


BTW:We really do use unpainted cardboard to suppress weeds in our garden walkways (should be called workways)....
or to let a particular bed "rest" for a year we cover it with unpainted cardboard.
It deteriorates within a year, and makes great Worm Food and mulch for the next generation of veggies.

It was the long, skinny pieces that are perfect.
If I drive by this evening, I may steal them.

[oneshooter]

9. One of the services I supply is doing "make readys".

When someone moves out of a house, rental, lease, whatever, I contract to clean and repair it.

This means that whenever a parent, uncle, aunt, o other relative, or renter leaves(dies, moves, or is evicted) I get to clean up the mess.
Anyways there is ALWAYS a lot of cardboard, papers, magazines left behind. So I clean out the house. Once I got the bright idea of selling the paper. WRONG Not that the buyer didn't want it, the prices!

Cardboard, $12 a TON
Paper and magazines, $6 a TON

Worth more to the city recycling than to me.

Oneshooter

[fadedrose]

10. +++++

nice job, steve . . .

[Arugula Latte]

11. Sidenote: One practical use for a s@#$load of cardboard: Compostable weed control.

Our neighbors put cardboard down in the woodsy section of their yard. After a few weeks they took it up, and they didn't have any weeds. Pretty cool. I imagine you could leave it there for a long time and let it get covered with leaves and it would probably eventually mix with the soil, as long as you're not in a super cold climate.