http://earth911.com/news/2007/09/05/steel-recycling-holds-strong-despite-inventory-crunch/ Make Everyday Earth Day Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://earth911.com/news/2007/09/05/steel-recycling-holds-strong-despite-inventory-crunch/comment-page-1/#comment-23467 larry Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:08:56 +0000 http://earth911.com/blog/2007/09/05/steel-recycling-holds-strong-despite-inventory-crunch/#comment-23467 My fiends think I'm crazy!! there's no money in recycling steel/tin cans. True. I am not getting rich. Before I started crushing my cans I was hauling 3, 33 gallon trash bags of trash to the dumpster. Now with my can/composte/alum. can recycling, I am down to one Kroger bag and a bread bag aweek of trash! I save my milk jugs. Every piece of junk mail gets shredded into the compost pile. We have produced over 500 lbs of soil out of leaves, coffee filters and grounds, egg shells and of course, the junk mail! My house looks like a junk yard. My friends say all you have to do is throw it away!! I have several bikes that we will be fixing for the working bike project. We give stuff away on freecycle. We have gotten some well needed stuff also. I wish there was a economical way to melt the glass containers here at home to make stuff or to store it easier until the demand gets better. We dont make a diffrence? I see it! Yeah, sometimes it seems like more work then it's worth but we are in it for the long haul. But this fall when I am munching on fresh veggies from my own soil maybe it will seem worth it to others. At least I hope! Peace!! My fiends think I’m crazy!! there’s no money in recycling steel/tin cans. True. I am not getting rich. Before I started crushing my cans I was hauling 3, 33 gallon trash bags of trash to the dumpster. Now with my can/composte/alum. can recycling, I am down to one Kroger bag and a bread bag aweek of trash! I save my milk jugs. Every piece of junk mail gets shredded into the compost pile. We have produced over 500 lbs of soil out of leaves, coffee filters and grounds, egg shells and of course, the junk mail! My house looks like a junk yard. My friends say all you have to do is throw it away!! I have several bikes that we will be fixing for the working bike project. We give stuff away on freecycle. We have gotten some well needed stuff also. I wish there was a economical way to melt the glass containers here at home to make stuff or to store it easier until the demand gets better. We dont make a diffrence? I see it! Yeah, sometimes it seems like more work then it’s worth but we are in it for the long haul. But this fall when I am munching on fresh veggies from my own soil maybe it will seem worth it to others. At least I hope! Peace!!

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