Poll: Poll: Do you recycle your shop packaging ?

[PapaLazaru]

Do you use a can crusher?

I have one but do not use it unless I have a lot of cans.

They come round every other week for it all. Got a box for paper / cardboard, another box for glass, and a bit green industrial bag type thing for plastic and cans.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Yes, and it requires next to no effort to do it so I really don't see what all the fuss is about. I'm doing the washing up anwyay, so I don't mind washing up some tins and plastic bottles, then it's just a case of sticking things in the right boxes/bins. Job done.

 

[Cosimo]

We don't have any wheelie bins. All recycling stuff goes into different coloured containers.

 

[Vonhelmet]

I wish there was a wheellie bin for glass.

We have a brown bin for glass, plastic, foil... Then there's green for garden waste and black for non-recyclable.

I wish they'd unify the systems across the country. My parents have the same coloured bins as us, but they're for different things. I have to ask every time to make sure I don't put stuff in the wrong bin. Bloody ridiculous.

 

[valve90210]

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:

My local council decided it would be a good idea to introduce bins for recyclable materials. Brilliant i thought finally we can recycle. My girlfriend and I live in a tiny flat and there is literally no where to store recycling so it was really hard to do before.

However the way they decided to impliment it caused real problems for the rest of the people in the block (there are only six flats...)

The implimentation went thus:

We started with GREEN bins for rubbish and BLACK boxes for recycling (my girlfriend I never had one of these sadly)

They then sent us a letter saying they would be giving us new bins for recycling.

A few weeks later some new BLACK bins arrived. However the council now wanted us to use our existing GREEN bins for recycling and the new BLACK bins for general rubbish.

Having been used to BLACK boxes for recycling and GREEN for rubbish, and not being the most inteligent people in the world, the change to BLACK for rubbish and GREEN for recycling was completely lost on the people in out block (my girlfriend and I excluded...after all it was not exactly the hardest concept to grasp) and very soon out green bins were full of general rubbish which the bin men didn't take and our black bins were filled with recycling (some of which nicely sorted....though some sorted and then bagged up in plastic bags - which were specifically listed as not being one of the recyclable materials)

The bin men emptied the BLACK bins thus taking away the recyclable material though it was of course now mixed in with the non-recyclables so would not be recycled!

My girlfriend and I contacted the council on three occasions to ask for help with the matter. They wrote a few very clearly worded letters explaining how to use the bins and we spoke to our neighbours but still the problem occurred so in the end the council just took away the GREEN bins and now we have provision for recycling again....

 

[crunchee]

Yes, in my house we have two bins. One for the normal rubbish and the other for the recyclable stuff. When we first got the second bin we were, or at least I was, very lazy to separate the rubbish but now it's the norm.

 

[uvarvu]

Always. The problem is that we are given orange bin bags by the council for recycling but the bin men chuck the bags in the same dust cart as the normal rubbish.

I'm not sure how that works!

 

[Maccy]

Yes and No. Back at home pretty much everything is recycled, but at my uni house we just put everything into general rubbish.

 

[SiriusB]

Yep. Council supplied us with a green, brown and blue bins.

Green - bottles and cans
Blue - paper
Brown - garden waste, and since the start of the month we are now able to put food waste in here.

 

[platypus]

We recycle everything we can. Food goes on the compost heap, everything else into the appropriate bin.

 

[Efour]

Yep most of it, my council are crap tbh compared to most other london ones.

recycling glass is a real PITA for me i wish they would/could afford to do that too.

 

[sigma]

Poll needed....

 

[antijoke]

Yes we recycle product packaging.

 

[Sin_Chase]

Never. I am not driving to a "facility" in which I can only recycle parts of stuff.

 

[EdGey]

I use the OcUK packaging materials if I'm selling something.

 

[Mark A]

Yes.

We have 3 bins and they only collect the green (general waste) once a fortnight. So if we didn't separate the cans and plastic bottles the bin would be overflowing.

But I would recycle anyway as it takes no time at all to put items in different bins.

 

[cheets64]

We have 3 bins now and a paper bag.

 

[Azza]

Yep.


We have paper & cardboard bag, and a bin for plastics, cans and bottles. And of course the garden waste one.

 

[Greenlizard0]

Fair play to those whose binmen make them recycle. Ours takes the natural approach to recycling (aka leaving most of it on the road).

 

[easyrider]

Our binmen are really helpful and seem to be into the whole recycle thing