My two cents today on saving the planet one small step at a time? Recycle.
If you live in Columbus, Ohio, recycling just got a little bit better. Until very recently, the only plastics that were easily recyclable in Columbus were plastics #1 and #2. I have been working in Cleveland, Ohio several days a week, however, and discovered that Cleveland recycles all numbered plastics (#1 – #7), and was actually considering carting my plastics to Cleveland to recycle them. The other week though, I saw a post by a writer for the Alive! publication in Columbus, asking for ideas about an upcoming ‘green’ issue, and decided to e-mail them about this gap in options for recycling in Columbus. Low and behold, when I went to link to the web pages that described what plastics were acceptable for recycling, I discovered that Columbus is now accepting the additional plastics (#3 – #7) as well. Sure enough, the next time I dropped off my recycling at Kroger (the nearest free drop-off point for me), the signs on the recycling bins had been modified with stickers, indicating the new plastic acceptance policy.
The irony is that if you live in Columbus and actually pay $$ to have recycling collected along with your trash, they haven’t caught up with the times yet and still only collect plastics #1 and #2.
