Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!

[ericire12]

I just got done with a bullet casting session.  You know, turning old bullets picked up off the backstop into new bullets that can be assembled into reloaded ammunition. 

Does bullet-casting count as recycling?  For that matter, does reloading count as recycling?  After all, aren’t we recycling used brass?

Maybe next time I find myself talking with a hippie, I'll mention I'm an avid recycler and hope he asks how I recycle.

Hehe 

[runstowin]

The B&W one looks more authentic.... I guess the colorized one just threw me off

It was back and white, this one was probably from a negative that was hand painted, in any event I did  my part to save the planet, I recycled an old photo.

[MikeBjerum]

Pickin' up brass, scrounging for hulls, collecting lead for bullets, and everything else that goes along with reloading is the finest form of recycling there is!  If you don't believe it, ask Mr. Gore and his buddies about keeping brass, lead and plastic out of the landfills 

[Big Frank]

I've been recycling my garbage for years. I end up with wonderful sweet-smelling black compost. Flowers and garden plants love it and I don't need to buy chemical fertilizer. I don't recycle my trash but still have less than a bagful most weeks.

The 3 R's are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Reduce the amount of crap you buy.
Reuse what you can, like your brass.
Recycle what you don't reuse.

Or put it all out to the curb and it magically disappears. Good or bad, I do a little of everything.

[Fatman]

Hippies would hate me. 'Recycle' for anything not metal, plastic or glass = burn barrel. I'll be effed if I'm spending two hours of time off breaking down boxes, cutting them to 'approved' size,  and bundling paper (also to approved size) and then PAYING to have it taken away. As it is, the time to separate the other stuff and wait in line at the recycling center was another hour with drive. Too much. Stopped that also.  I guess the part that really tweaked me was when the manager at the recycle plant told me how profitable it was for the company. 

That's when it hit me... of course it's profitable for him. Slave labor and free raw materials by unfunded local government mandate. It would take an idiot like me to not make a profit.   I went to the town meeting and told them if I wasn't getting properly reimbursed for my time and materials, I QUIT. Had my labor rate, hours, value of the glass, aluminum, steel, paper per cwt and the amounts I contributed and submitted my bill to the lawyer.

After review, I am exempted from the law. 

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[ericire12]

I would recycle my trash (cans, paper, plastic, etc) but it is not offered as a service by my garbage collector unless I pay extra for it. I'll be damned if I am gonna do that, or drive to the dump every week to do it. If it were convenient/free, I would be all for it.

[alfsauve]

For an example Flour and grain bags were the source of much clothing material in the old days.

I can't remember the last time I saw any product in a cloth sack?   Yes, I remember when they did.   My dad was a wholesale grocer and I unloaded tons of flour and grain in cloth sacks.   But that was a few years ago.  Are the larger containers still cloth? 

[tombogan03884]

I can't remember the last time I saw any product in a cloth sack?   Yes, I remember when they did.   My dad was a wholesale grocer and I unloaded tons of flour and grain in cloth sacks.   But that was a few years ago.  Are the larger containers still cloth? 

I doubt it, I was thinking more about depression era calico and other print bags.

[PegLeg45]

Speaking of old flour sacks, I have my Grandmother's old steamer trunk with things in it that she kept over the years. I have one of my dad's old baby gowns that she made from a flour sack. There are also some needle-point work in there she sewed on flour sack sides. She also had a large collection of stainless steel silverware that came piece-by-piece in 20 pound flour sacks as a promotional type thing way back. The fork or knife or spoon would be at the bottom of the sack after it was emptied. She had a LOT of those things too.
 

[Teresa Heilevang]

I can't remember the last time I saw any product in a cloth sack?   Yes, I remember when they did.   My dad was a wholesale grocer and I unloaded tons of flour and grain in cloth sacks.   But that was a few years ago.  Are the larger containers still cloth? 

NO they are not. I buy my bread flour and my regular flour in 50# sacks and they are in a heavy paper( like feed sacks)

Wish they were in cloth. But afraid that everything bulk is either in a weird reinforced plastic meshy kind of stuff or the heavy feed sack paper.