Meet the family who are so green they compost their own hair and dust, make purses out of milk cartons — and only fill one dustbin with rubbish a year

Recycling is actually very easy, but it requires most people to break that preconditioned cycle that mentally tells them to just throw it away in the trash bin...laziness at it's worst... Hence the trash bins on the curb are always ten times bigger than the recycle ones...

This is a prime example of the traditional mindset that will gradually change over a period of time...as people become more aware of the value of every aspect of clean living... just as it has changed dramatically from what it used to be 20 or 30 years ago...

my goodness, i wish i had that kind of innovation and motivation!

Must be up to their eyeballs in purses by now...

that is hardcore recycling...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_arc_waste_disposal

We need more of these!

LOL!! Damn, I live in a great example of little to no recycle support. Here in Cedar City, we have no curbside service, we have no city run drop off, and very few alternatives. Walmart had one of the big blue "all in one" roll offs... for about a month before it was pulled because they didn't want to clean up the crap that blew out of it (it is windy here). While it was there though, they had to change it out like twice a week cause so many people were using it.

Right now the only place I know of is some dumpster bins sitting near a factory behind a small neighborhood. It's hard to find and most people don't know it's there. If they did, they'd need to empty them every day cause so many people here are willing to recycle.

I think Walmarts nationwide should be required to supply and manage city recycle centers if the city itself cannot afford it. After all, in alot of places, a majority of that garbage originates from the shelves of Walmart. They should provide us a way to return what we don't need, right?

Living in Portland, Oregon, we recycle way more than we throw away. Everyone has recycle bins larger than trash cans - they pick recycling up every week just like the trash. It is a great thing and has been going on for quite awhile.

I know most cities have little if any curb side recycling. It needs to change.

all I read was the title and I already hate these people.

The Strauss family with one whole year's rubbish,nice

It requires organization, energy, space, and ALOT of time.

We compost our non-meat food waste and sort and recycle a good majority of plastic, paper, cardboard, and aluminum. I'd say we're about 30% recycling... and it IS a pain in the ass.

It requires time to sort stuff, lots of space to store it between runs to the recycle spot. My roomates won't take the food out to the compost pile and they let the recyclables pile up till they're practically spilling out everywhere, which just ticks me off to no end.

It is a pain in the ass... I can't imagine attempting near 100% recycle rate. Not impossible, but pretty impractical for the average household.

An inspiration!

Well, with all the recycling they are doing, enough for 10 to 100 homes, now I don't need to do anything for the planet!

what about plastic?

I have a hunch these guys are axe murderers. Only serial killers would be this neat.

Want not, waste not.

That's...intense

Good on them

that's so cool. i mean i know we can all take initiatives to be greener, but i would have never thought that this would be possible. Go Strauss family!!!

More power to them.

I admire these folks for leading by example rather than by rhetoric.

wow, one could never call these people lazy....

I wish I had her energy .

Amassing. I am all for recycle and do quite a lot of it myself but it appears that the whole purpose in life for this family is to recycle.