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What do you do about recycling on the road? I have a giant container filled with stuff to recycle, but nowhere to put it. No campgrounds have recycling. I have no more room to collect more, but hate to throw it out if I don't have to.

Amy - I always wonder the same thing. Not very many campgrounds have recycle provisions which I find strange?? Many times I just put soda cans in the trash while traveling. ALWAYS recycle at home though and have for years.

Linda

I've been to cg's with all the recycling bins and others with none. It's usually fairly easy to find bins - most rest areas have recycling - I'd try those first.

The problem with recycling on the road is what can you recycle. At home everything is taken but here in the Elko area the only thing is aluminum cans.

Most of the campgrounds we frequent have barrels for aluminum cans but nothing else. But then we don't have recycling for anything at home. The county used to bring a trailer to town once a month but it was not economically feasible for them and they quit. I take our cans to a recycler about twice a year. I always will remember one of my students who did her FHA illustrated speech on recycling finding a reliable source that stated that during one year in the US we throw away enough aluminum cans to completely rebuild every plane in all commercial airlines world-wide. That was a startling fact to me.

It's interesting to me also that so few cg's have recycling facilities. i have found barrels for them at state and national parks but it is usually just aluminum cans. At home I do plastic, regular cans(like food), newspapers and cardboard. If it is a shortish trip (4 weeks or less) I will save my bottles and cans by rinsing and flattening, then put in plastic bag which hangs in my shower. When I get home i dump it in my own can. Where i live everyone pays the same for garbage whether you have 26 cans per week(lol) or none and curbside recycling is included.

when we first started full timing we were still in the city that we'd lived in for many years but our house had sold prior to retiring so we moved into the KOA kampground and was very surprised that there was no recycling cans or papers at that time not much else was recyclable so we asked and surprise surprise not long after that bins appeared and they started recycling. Sometimes it takes asking and even presenting a plan...that said we find that a lot were it's hard to find a place to recycle. Because we frequent the same areas have gotten to know where to go and how long we will have to hold on to..Granted we still do recycle to the extent that we really could.
Guess all we can do is do the best that we can when we can
sheila