Recycling is a load of rubbish.
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I like this idea, why don't we use prisoners for cheap labour anyway?
I have 2 wheely bins, black one for general waste and blue one for paper. then have a small green thing for bottles and a small back thing for food. Majority of my stuff goes in general though, its not that I have got the time or cant be bothered to sort it out just havent got the room. Kitchen is tiny and just having one bin in there gets in the way.
Do manage to fill up the blue bin once a month though with all the crap that gets shoved through my door
Do manage to fill up the blue bin once a month though with all the crap that gets shoved through my door
Wow I never knew that, so why aren't we doing it?
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We did have 2 here but someone has stolen our recycling bin (damn drunk students) and thus we now no longer recycle. As it's student housing nobody seems to care.
Back at home in Kent we have 2 bins, a normal bin and a recycling bin but within the recycling bin is a little slot in box for glass and tins, cardboards and plastics just go straight to the bottom.
Back at home in Kent we have 2 bins, a normal bin and a recycling bin but within the recycling bin is a little slot in box for glass and tins, cardboards and plastics just go straight to the bottom.
Same here.. One purple for general waste, blue for recycling and green for garden waste.
I just tend to stick any paper, glass, metal and plastics in the recycling bin, have never bothered sorting it into things that are recyclable and not etc.
The problem in the US is that prisons are for-profit in many cases. The prison owner then contributes to a judge/congressman's campaign to run for government. The judge then puts more people in prison to make the prison owner happy as he can use the new prisoners for cheap labour. It's a modern day slave trade.
So you watched the video... and thought it was a good idea?
Ah, Didn't think of it that way. It's not so much money for me but I know it makes people recycle bottles instead of throwing it in the normal bin or just out on the street.
Didn't know that about the PRN. Thanks for telling. I guess you can't do drastic changes to packaging in such a short time.
Yea. Pant it's called
When I visited the Coca Cola factory they said that something like 90% of the bottles are washed and re used and the rest of them (if there are traces of drugs for example) are melted and used to for other stuff like making fleece sweaters. They still have individual bottle designs but the sizes are the same as you say.
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For those of you that seem convinced that most of your recycling goes to landfill, this is where most of it actually goes. Companies like this...
http://www.sita.co.uk/
...where it is sorted and baled (like what Greebo used to do) and sent abroad for recycling. Not much is sent to landfill because high enough landfill taxes have been put in place to stop businesses and councils doing it.
Unfortunately, the fact that it's environmentally undesirable to landfill isn't enough to stop people doing it, so you have to hit them financially because it's the only language they understand. It's quite a simple model and it works.
http://www.sita.co.uk/
...where it is sorted and baled (like what Greebo used to do) and sent abroad for recycling. Not much is sent to landfill because high enough landfill taxes have been put in place to stop businesses and councils doing it.
Unfortunately, the fact that it's environmentally undesirable to landfill isn't enough to stop people doing it, so you have to hit them financially because it's the only language they understand. It's quite a simple model and it works.