Poll: Poll: Do you recycle your shop packaging ?

[easyrider]

Poll Please

Do you recycle your shop packaging like boxes,plastic,bottles,paper etc...?

Yes

No

Sometimes when I remember

Never

 

[PardonTheWait]

Our binmen leave a snotty note on the binbag (which they don't take with them) if they spy anything wrong in the bag.

So yes 90% of the time.

 

[Wizzfizz]

Yes because the council asks us to do so. I thought the majority of people recycle now days?

 

[JBuk]

Yes, because the Council won't take away my rubbish if I don't

 

[Moredhel]

Nope,

We have no recycling and the council won't implement it any time soon. We don't have to worry about this separating our rubbish nonsense, into the bin it goes!

 

[Cosimo]

Yup, the council provide recycling containers for this stuff.

 

[Nexus]

Well I live in an apartment block, so we have bins for general refuge and then recycling.

I live with my brother and try to recycle all our packaging, though my brother doesn't always bother. I can often go downstairs to the binroom though and find that somebody has stuffed one of the refuge bins full of cardboard, even though there are five bins specifically for cardboard right next to it! :rollseyes:

 

[Glaucus]

Only the easy stuff. Bottles, cans, cardboard.

not going to start the waste food box. If I had my own house I would invest in a composter though. But while I'm renting, there's no point.

 

[KNiVES]

Yup, I have to, otherwise the binmen won't take it. It's irritating and a massive inconvenience but I see merit in it.

 

[A.N.Other]

Always. Our flats have general bins, and then ones for plastic, cardboard, paper, tins and foil, different coloured glass and cartons. If they've bothered to put them there it's hardly any skin off my nose to use them.

 

[Glaucus]

Yup, I have to, otherwise the binmen won't take it. It's irritating and a massive inconvenience but I see merit in it.

Do they start ripping open bin bags to check?

 

[easyrider]

I forgot to answer in my own thread!

I always do....was a PITA at first but now its just normal.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Yes, we do.

 

[PapaLazaru]

Recycle pretty much everything that I can.

All plastic bottles and containers, all glass, all cans and all paper and cardboard. Food waste goes into the compost.

 

[KNiVES]

Do they start ripping open bin bags to check?

You'd be quite surprised! They don't go that far naturally, but they do take a look. They're quite stringent about it too. I had banana skins in the green bin before and they refused to take it. Whether they should have done or not, I don't know... but I thought it made sense to put those skins in there!

Edit: I'm also unsure of the myth going about that the contents of all those bins end up in the same landfill anyway, is there any truth to that?

 

[easyrider]

Recycle pretty much everything that I can.

All plastic bottles and containers, all glass, all cans and all paper and cardboard. Food waste goes into the compost.

Do you use a can crusher?

 

[PardonTheWait]

Do they start ripping open bin bags to check?

We had a recycling bag left because he spotted something that apparently wasn't meant to be in there, the recycling ones are see through.

I'm sure we had a black bag left because it had recyclables in as well, he must have looked. Maybe they do it at random.

 

[eatcustard]

Yes

we have a wheelie bin for it

 

[easyrider]

I wish there was a wheellie bin for glass.

 

[Glaucus]

the recycling ones are see through.
.

That makes it easier. It seems silly there is no uniform way of collecting it.

We have a black box,you put cans,bottles and cardboard in. Although you can order an extra 3 boxes for free. So I have one for each.
In the winter cardboard is left all down the street due to wind.

South Glos has a green wheelie bin for cardboard, it makes so much more sense.