Recycling – Do you actually, genuinely care?

Iamzod said:
It sucks that the general waste only gets emptied every 2 weeks. We were left with loads of raw chicken after a BBQ the other week and it went in the recycling bin as that was next to be emptied. Not leaving meat to fester for 10 days as last time we ended up with a bin full of maggots even though it was all bagged up.
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Get a compost bin and chuck it in there?
 
We only have our bins emptied every 3 weeks but recycling (Inc food waste) every week. Works quite well and isn't a hassle. Although I did make a 3 basket drawer thing for cardboard, tins/plastic and glass with a small food bin in the kitchen. We just empty those into the appropriate bin when full. Works great.
 
I do. It's easier to throw packaging into a bin liner rather than fold it up and put it in my metal cylinder bin thing.

As for washing them you can jog on. It's wrong to use fresh water to clean the waste of recyclable materials.
 
I try to for no more reason than to understand it and therefore do it, it's not a big ask in any way. If it were I'd probably not do it. Future generations well possibly, but really its down to common sense? Is there a reason not to spend another two seconds at the bin to decide?
 
Just had a letter off the council regarding recycling snd the fine involved if you dont comly with regulations.....no one around here even have recycling boxes tbey have never been sent out but all the surrounding areas do.
 
To answer the OP: Yes.

I drive past a land fill site 2 or 3 times a week and the rotting stench just makes you question what the hell we're doing to the planet.
 
We have a potential problem about to rear it's ugly head. It would appear that many councils up here are changing from two weekly to monthly refuse collections. The problem being that our paper/cardboard wheelie bin is full after 2 weeks so there is no way we can go a month. The plastic/tins wheelie bin won't make it the full month either. I cut my grass every fortnight which fills the brown garden waste wheelie bin as well so that's not going to last a month either. That's without the stink from the food waste rotting away for a month. I seriously hope that out council doesn't choose this option because I cannot see how most of us will manage. No doubt we won't get a reduction in out council tax either!! :mad:
 
I do care, and yes I do it when I can

That said, I come home most evenings to find a plethora of junk mail on my door step. When I order items from the rain forest, the boxes seem to contain "offers" for mens shirts, cases of wine, flyers etc etc

It does make me wonder sometimes
 
pastymuncher said:
We have a potential problem about to rear it's ugly head. It would appear that many councils up here are changing from two weekly to monthly refuse collections. The problem being that our paper/cardboard wheelie bin is full after 2 weeks so there is no way we can go a month. The plastic/tins wheelie bin won't make it the full month either. I cut my grass every fortnight which fills the brown garden waste wheelie bin as well so that's not going to last a month either. That's without the stink from the food waste rotting away for a month. I seriously hope that out council doesn't choose this option because I cannot see how most of us will manage. No doubt we won't get a reduction in out council tax either!! :mad:
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I did wonder when they would move to monthly cycles
 
I don't understand why at least Southampton City Council thinks it is OK to charge extra to have garden waste collected. Grass, branches etc. are not going to create a foul stench if left in the summer heat, they could be collected once a month. I'm all for being green, but I'm not going to pay £30 a year (or whatever it is now) to have a garden waste wheelie bin emptied a handful of times in the summer. I bet those that do pay have their bins filled by others, if left in full view.
 
pastymuncher said:
We have a potential problem about to rear it's ugly head. It would appear that many councils up here are changing from two weekly to monthly refuse collections. The problem being that our paper/cardboard wheelie bin is full after 2 weeks so there is no way we can go a month. The plastic/tins wheelie bin won't make it the full month either. I cut my grass every fortnight which fills the brown garden waste wheelie bin as well so that's not going to last a month either. That's without the stink from the food waste rotting away for a month. I seriously hope that out council doesn't choose this option because I cannot see how most of us will manage. No doubt we won't get a reduction in out council tax either!! :mad:
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Lol, are there no worse councils than Aberdeen/Shire?

I think not :D
 
StriderX said:
Lol, are there no worse councils than Aberdeen/Shire?

I think not :D
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Moray council is our one here. We live in Banffshire but Moray council controls it. Bloody bunch of hypocrites they are. It look's like this could be a problem for much of Scotland before long. Local elections next year so they may wait until after that, although most of our lot will be out of a job anyway with all the shenanigans they have been trying on.
 
I genuinely care about recycling. I go as far as ripping the plastic film from the card in takeaway sandwich packaging in order to recycle card and plastic separately.

I also try to reduce and reuse as much as I can.

If I may be honest, I am appalled when I see plastic milk bottles in the "General Waste" bin at work when the plastics recycle bin is just 2 metres away.

I tried to convince a person to recycle once and got told to mind my own business.

I'm willing to listen to reason if someone can tell me why recycling is not worth it.
 
Ricochet J said:
I genuinely care about recycling. I go as far as ripping the plastic film from the card in takeaway sandwich packaging in order to recycle card and plastic separately.

I also try to reduce and reuse as much as I can.

If I may be honest, I am appalled when I see plastic milk bottles in the "General Waste" bin at work when the plastics recycle bin is just 2 metres away.

I tried to convince a person to recycle once and got told to mind my own business.

I'm willing to listen to reason if someone can tell me why recycling is not worth it.
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1. Can't prove it isnt just incinerated anyway.
2. Market forces (price of oil for plastic, price of silica for glass are very low currently)

Metal is still very profitable as Aluminium is still extremely expensive to make mainly and Paper costs are in shipping from around the world.

Again make Recycling easy and not dumb as bricks, then people will do it.
 
I'm not sure that making 78 different bins for each household in the country out of materials that don't biodegrade was the answer to our waste problem. :p
 
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