I live in a rural area as well. Metal recycling is the easiest to find around here. Paper only one place will take and nothing for plastic that I have found yet.
Reason For switching:
1. I have to climb a ladder every time I have to change the bulb.
2. This is a commercial address so electric costs a lot more than residential addresses.
3. the Led uses around 40-45 watts where the incandescent uses 300.
4. The bulb (should) last 45 times the...
I have gotten all led Christmas lights. Don't really even notice them on the power bill for the month. I'm looking into replacing the cfl bulbs with led when they finally burn out. I have put one led outside though as the cfl outside would take way to long to warm up during the winter and the...
I was wondering if there was a formula available to figure out how much power savings you would get with an led. I'm just wondering because the led I need is very expensive around 150.00 bucks compared to its incandescent version which is usually around 2-3 bucks. I just wanted to see if it was...
Update.
I have recycled over 2840 pounds of paper products. I talked to the recycle company and they take just about anything paper so now I send everything in even the junkmail that gets shredded.
Plus I'm not refurbishing lawnmowers and other small outdoor power equipment.
Even got myself a...
Well I have expanded to a lot more outdoor power equipment now and added a few more recycling products. I found out that I have a local scrap yard that buys cardboard and paper. My first load came to around 700 pounds of paper/cardboard/newspaper/magazines. I like the fact that I can recycle...
Jeez its been a long time since I was here.
Well I'm not sure if this is "recycling" but here it goes.
This year I wanted to get a snowblower. I was looking at new ones "and the big price" and I just couldn't figure out what to do.
Well I managed to snag an older snow blower that was in need...
Its really not that I forgot you guys its more I got very busy :rolleyes: This place is really unforgettable (on my favorites lol)
O and me + chat up a storm.... = you will wish you never said that LOL