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[Lekker]

They're really difficult to collapse, the plastic is extremely thick. Why isn't the plastic thinner, so that they can be collapsed with ease and compacted into a recycling bag, saving more money and using less plastic for the bags? It would be a lot better to put 20 crushed bottles into one bag rather than 6 full sized bottles into one bag. Any ideas?

[tzechuk]

Do you use recycle bags issued by your local authority or do you just use any old bags?

We don't have recycle bags in Daejeon, so we were told to just dump them outside and they will get collected. We put them in cardboard boxes.

[sojourner1]

Normally bottles do not need to be put in a special bag as they are valued by bottle collectors who ply the streets with a rickshaw at odd hours. Just put em' in a shopping bag and set at the edge of a street. Cardboard collectors do not mind too if it's not in a special bag as long as it's broke down and bundled up.

There are 2 kinds of special bags. One for garbage such as food scraps and the other for trash such as food packaging unless it's cardboard such as cerial boxes.

I suppose home trash processing varies by extreme degrees in each town as I found out that how utilities works and are billed on one apartment is crazy different than from another; even in the same dong.

[Lekker]

At school I was told to put them into the regular trash bag that you can buy at the mart. Here in my apt, I just put them all into a bag and put them out on the street when nobody is looking and they are gone the next day. I honestly have no idea what to do with the bottles so I have to be sneaky about it and I don't like being sneaky.

[billybrobby]

So what's the complaint? That you could be spending too much money on recycling bags if you actually used them, except you don't use them. But if you did, boy, that'd be terrible. So now you're on Dave's complaining about doing what you're not doing.

[Draz]