Reply #10: kinda sanctamonious answer

[Kali]

I try not to NEED to recycle by not buying crap that has a lot of packaging, reusing containers, etc, but must admit it gets harder and harder....Also I live in a rural area that doesn't have the infrastructure. I recycle glass onsite (just silica eh? - have a glass pit that can someday be mined for materials) send aluminum to a nearby town for their firefighters 4th of July fireworks fund, paper gets burned, organics get either composted, fed to chickens or dogs. Send a bag or three of gross stuff - plastics, and such every month or so to the county facility. In my grandparents' time they burned it all, cans too, did maybe a wastebasket or so everyday. It just wasn't there! I have noticed in the types of litter that people leave around that it too has gone so plastic, used to be beer bottles and cans, tp, maybe some other paper - usually that breaks down pretty fast, now you see plastic bags hanging in bushes for months, plastic bottles all over the place, but they start to crumble after a while in the sun and are hard to clean up, and of course the best - a wadded up disposable diaper. I bet these last for years.