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JackTucky:
Thanks for the effort guys.  I regularly spill some gas while pumping it into my f-150.  I keep the tires low pressure so they make less noise.  I have my thermostat in my house set at 68 in the summer, 78 in the winter.  I yell at my kids for leaving lights off.  I drink  a 12 pack of coke a day, and throw all the cans and bottles in the woods behind my house.  I over fertilize my lawn so it looks nice and green.  Who cares if I can walk across the pond?  I leave all 10 of my TV's on and loud so I don't have to go into a room and think.  I wash my socks seperately so they don't get lost.  I change the oil in my car every 3K miles and pour the old oil in the storm sewer.  I give the EPA helicopters flying over the river here the finger.

=J

Buddabing:
Our subdivision picks up newspaper and plastic, but not glass.

Surprisingly, there is more recyclable plastic than you might think. I typically throw out plastic ketchup bottles, but it turns out that those are recyclable. So are most medicine bottles.

As far as electricity goes, my power bill was for 2160 kilowatt hours last month. Everyone in my family leaves lights, televisions, and computers on. I have changed a few of the worst offernding lights to low power fluorescents. My wife does not like the color of the light they emit so I am not changing all the bulbs.

From what I understand, though, pretty soon they won't be selling incandescent bulbs in California anymore.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: JackTucky on May 15, 2007, 08:34:15 am ---  I change the oil in my car every 3K miles and pour the old oil in the storm sewer.

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Hippie.  I change my car every 3k miles and dump the old one in the pond.

Recycling is usually more a function of what your local recycler accepts than it is about what is recyclable.  Our town does not pick up styrofoam, for instance, despite it being coded and easily recyclable.  They will only pick up recyclables on which they can break even or turn a small profit (so they can sustain the service).  Ironically, the styrofoam needs recycling far more than the stuff they do pick up and I always feel guilty putting it in the trash.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 15, 2007, 08:50:51 am ---
--- Quote from: JackTucky on May 15, 2007, 08:34:15 am ---  I change the oil in my car every 3K miles and pour the old oil in the storm sewer.

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Hippie.  I change my car every 3k miles and dump the old one in the pond.


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i actually change my oil way more regularly than is normal. twice for summer and once or twice more for the rest of the year. air cooled VW. no oil filter. hotter running. i dont of course dump the oil down the drain. it gets recycled. although when i was a teenager we didnt know better. i used to use it to kill weeds on the fence line! i imagined it was bio degrading because the weeds would grow back when really the weeds grew back because the oil had leached out of the soil and into the drains and then on to the sea...

ChadTower:

I get mine changed about every 5-6k.  Civic, doesn't consume much oil, runs cool.  I don't change it myself because I'd rather pay $20 and have it done.

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