Does the city/state where you live encourage you to ”GO GREEN” ?
I was just reading answers in a question on the subject, and I realized I am much more fortunate than I thought. I’m in Canada, and from what other people wrote in answer to the other question, I realized that things I’d taken for granted are actually not as common as I thought.
My city collects my recycling every two weeks along with trash, I just dump it all in a big blue bin and it gets sorted later. It also encourages composting, I applied for a subvention and my composter, along with a pail for the kitchen and a two-hour class on the subject cost me only $35.
Grocery stores around me CHARGE you 10¢ for plastic bags, the ”green” options are waaaayyy bigger and sturdier and cost only $1.29 and are easily available at every cash register.
It is not yet in my city (although I did sign the petition) but many cities around me also have a subvention of $100 for buying a cloth diaper kit.
The only thing lacking is public transport, but it’s too small a city. Larger ones offer a tax credit when you buy monthly passes for public transport.
Where do you live ? Do you consider that your environnement support the greener options ? Would you use them if they did ?
Although I am aware that it is actually my TAXES paying for some of this…. LOL Would you mind being taxed more to have more services or do you prefer choosing what to do with your money ?
I also wasn’t aware of the fact that town’s charge for recycling. I live in New Hampshire. We don’t have dump service here, so we go to the dump, and dump our own trash and recycling.
I think the government needs to start offering more incentives for recycling. But reducing, and reusing, as another answering in my question said, offers it’s own rewards, by saving you money.
I’m a student at Michigan State University and we recycle almost EVERYTHING!!! East Lansing (where msu is located) definitely encourages going green!
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I think ‘going green’ is a huge trend right now, but I like it! I think it’s really, really awesome that more companies are taking an active role in doing things a bit differently in order to ‘go green’. Our city isn’t big on this, they’re more into a ‘get healthier, lose weight’ movement. I’m thinking about getting a ‘green’ bag for when I go shopping. I would definitely use ‘greener’ options , and I wouldn’t mind paying a bit more taxes for them. Every little change is extremely important for the future of our children. But everywhere you look, you see propaganda for ‘going green’, and even in commercials. I love it, I really do! I’m in the green style by cloth diapering, yay!
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I live in upstate New York and our community is very similar to yours in terms of encouraging being green.
The only difference is that we don’t receive a credit for buying cloth diapers or composting.
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I’m in Australia- I’ve been told by Canadians that the two countries have very similar government set ups. we don’t have the cloth nappy reimbursements YET, but we do have public transport in my area. We have one train that comes through our town once an hour that goes to the nearest city- we are the second last town on the line though.
Most of our eco pushing is actually done by the state government, our local council has a very "family friendly" push and provides HEAPS of free activities to do as a family.
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We have to pay extra to have our recyclables picked up. Plastic bags are free of charge and "green" bags cost about $1.00. I haven’t heard of anything around here about cloth diapers or composting. I live in a large city in Texas.
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I also wasn’t aware of the fact that town’s charge for recycling. I live in New Hampshire. We don’t have dump service here, so we go to the dump, and dump our own trash and recycling.
I think the government needs to start offering more incentives for recycling. But reducing, and reusing, as another answering in my question said, offers it’s own rewards, by saving you money.
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where i live (ashland, or) is quite like your city. we have recycling, and our local co-op also charges for paper/plastic bags. almost everybody that i know composts, including myself.
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