Recycling is a load of rubbish.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12489559

Councils are asking householders to sort their rubbish into as many as nine types to boost recycling, a survey suggests.

On average, the Taxpayers' Alliance pressure group found councils expected residents to sort their household waste into four separate types.

Newcastle-under-Lyme had the largest number, with nine bins, bags and boxes.

The government said this number "seemed a little over the top" and it was reviewing waste collection.

The research was compiled through a combination of freedom of information requests and checking council websites.

Newcastle-under-Lyme uses separate containers and bags for refuse, cardboard, plastics, paper, glass and cans, textiles and garden waste.

It also hands out two food waste caddies - one for putting food scraps in for the kitchen and another for kerbside collection.

The survey also found 20 other local authorities including Chelmsford, Aberdeenshire, Guildford and Middlesbrough give residents seven or more containers.
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In my opinion the current recycling strategy is a royal pain in the backside. It is bad enough having lots of bins but on top of that only certain types of plastics for example can go in the plastics bin, the same for tins and paper.

I also think recycling is very wasteful, for example should the aim not be to stop the production of unnecessary packaging, the savings would be massive compared to recycling, you don't need the initial raw materials or energy cost of production and thus you do not the energy cost of recycling.

It is so obvious to me, am I wrong?
 
what i find strange, that if you live in a house they drive you mad with recycling

but if you live in a block of flats, they don't enforce recycling at all
 
Paul11 said:
what i find strange, that if you live in a house they drive you mad with recycling

but if you live in a block of flats, they don't enforce recycling at all
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In that case, get in your car and drive to the recycling centre, emissions are bad, yes?
 
We have recently had a slight change to our recycling -

Normal rubbish in bags
Compostable waste
Paper
Plastic
Glass
Plasticated card (like oranjge juice cartons)

I sort these all out then they come and throw all but the compost and general rubbish into the same truck...why? What stupid thing to do and waste of my time...

- Pea0n
 
Paul11 said:
what i find strange, that if you live in a house they drive you mad with recycling

but if you live in a block of flats, they don't enforce recycling at all
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why's it strange?
imagine how many bins and boxes you need. It's not practical.

Need a total rethink on packaging and recycling.

Start of by taxing certain materials for common house hold products/food to encourage using the easier to recycle alternatives.

Or just make people who claim benefits sort through it at the land fill site.
 
I seem to remember reading only one type of recycled item is working as it should (i.e. costing less to recycle and use again than to produce new), and I think it was tin cans.

Everything else you recycle is pointless, it's actually costing more in terms of energy to recycle than to simply make again new (not counting for limited natural resources etc blahblahblah save the planet).

Again, I can't remember the source so I might be off, but I remember being pretty shocked when I read it.
 
There are roughly 25 million homes in the UK, if that all have 4 bins then that is 100 millions bins, how much energy did it take to make the bins!!!!
 
My council has "1" bag and paper, metal and certain plastic goes into it. I think its one of the worst in London for recycling procedures.

Recycling isn't all just about energy use, its about not putting waste into Landfill sites either.

The local borough next door to me have just built a new incineration/waste to energy plant thats an option too.
 
I agree with you. Instead of being so very forward with this recycling thing they should look at the manufacturers first and get them to reduce packaging.
 
There was something on Radio 4 a while ago about how much energy it would save if there was a single bottle form for each standard size. so, for example, if you wanted a 500ml drink they would all be exactly the same shaped bottle just with different branding on it. this would make them reusable and would also allow customers to better judge value. Seems such a perfect idea yet we don't do it, i just don't understand.
 
What annoys me is that in my area you can only recycle plastic in bottle format, any other kind of plastic tubs/containers etc have to go in the normal waste...
 
Say the bottom of the bin has dimensions of 50cm x 50cm. Say there are 100,000,000 bins you have a surface of 2.5 square kilometres taken up by bins!
 
I think that they should ban leaflets pushed through your door*. The whole act of it must be: print 5,000 leaflets, hopefully get 200 customers. Stop sending phonebooks to people unless requested.

* Have exceptions for businesses such as take-away/delivery where the point of sale is in your house. That's fair enough but we don't really need a leaflet telling me about a carpet sale etc.
 
RickST said:
There was something on Radio 4 a while ago about how much energy it would save if there was a single bottle form for each standard size. so, for example, if you wanted a 500ml drink they would all be exactly the same shaped bottle just with different branding on it. this would make them reusable and would also allow customers to better judge value. Seems such a perfect idea yet we don't do it, i just don't understand.
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In Norway we got this recycling deal when it comes to plastic and glass bottles that you bring them back to a shop (they all have the machines for it) and then you get something between 10p and 25p for each bottle you recycle. They then get reused and people have an incentive to recycle them too (even if you pay the extra money when you buy the drink)
 
mame said:
I think that they should ban leaflets pushed through your door*. The whole act of it must be: print 5,000 leaflets, hopefully get 200 customers. Stop sending phonebooks to people unless requested.

* Have exceptions for businesses such as take-away/delivery where the point of sale is in your house. That's fair enough but we don't really need a leaflet telling me about a carpet sale etc.
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Postmen get paid extra for delivering them. ;)
 
AcidHell2 said:
My biggest annoyance is no wheelie bin for carboard, on windy days it blows all down the street and just left.
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I tie ours up with string if there's a lot of it and leave it on the path with the containers. They take it like that these days. The best part of our collection is the garden waste. It saves some many trips to recycling centre by car.
 
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