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• Recycling is second nature at home now. On the boat, it's not as easy.
  • Similar to you, we separate it
    • That would make things easier.
  • garbage
  • Best I ever saw was in BVI.
  • Nice to see another engine-heated garbage bin.
  • nothing to recycle
    • Those days, I hope, are coming to an end, Dan.
      • Lets all throw it on an island
        • I don't find your methods repugnant, I said a new generation does.
          • The new generation is clueless.
            • Dan, I won't even start to respond to that except
              • Got a job to finish up first.
            • Don't listen to them, we've got things under control.
        • Disagree about the aluminum. Even in salt water, I've seen aluminum cans 4 and 5 years old, still intact
          • Cans must be on steroids.
            • Agreed, furthermore...
              • Wade fishing, in the Texas bays, I've picked up aluminum beer cans covered in barnacles
                • That's sad. The worst offense on New England shores, is plastic, by the ton.
                  • Along the beaches here, it's about the same. Crap off of shrimp boats. But also
                    • As a kid growing up in Vermont, I participated in the first "Green Up Days".
                    • Berkeley Cleanup 2011
                    • I live near the local high school, same here. Ten feet from a trash can and it's on the ground.......
                    • It's the same in the country
            • In some cases banning insecticides and fretilizers
              • Yep- THAT was a dumb deal. MIS USE was the real problem
  • In Nantucket (last time I was there)
    • Do you filter your water?
      • No. However
      • I do-I have a big stainless filter taken from a commercial aircraft
  • I keep my garbage on deck in a large
    • I've found here on the US coast, most places, especially islands, don't want your trash, period.
  • I sail a quite small boat, with limited room for holding garbage. So I try to get rid of
    • That's the best way, recycle before it goes onboard.
  • Of course, then a cargo ship comes along ...