Recycling is a load of rubbish.

twentyone said:
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)
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they used to do that in England but it stopped in the 80s I think. A long time ago anyway.
 
I hate recycling, I have 2 bin's 1 for Card/Paper/Bottles etc and the other smaller one for general waste, Now soon i will be having a large amount of nappies and do not know where to put them, you can book a separate Nappie bin but apparently this is overbooked?

I would take them to the local tip but due to time and car restriction this just is not practical and why should i? this is why i pay council tax.
 
As well as all the other crap we now have 2 slop bins as well round here!

A little silver bin for all your food waste in the kitchen which comes with little bio degradable bags that you then empty into a lockable green plastic bin for outside so the sweet little animals can't eat it.

One large green bin for garden waste
One large black bin for normal rubbish
One large bag for cardboard
One large green box for glass
One large green box for food waste

It makes taking the bins out a task I tell thee!!!

As well as taking up most of the drive in the morning :/
 
I have FOUR full size wheely bins, one for general, one for glass and tin, one for cardboard and one for garden, it takes up a load of space and it's bloomin annoying! The only place they fit is at the bottom of the drive behind the steps, meaning I have to move both cars out of the way to put the bins out :(
 
Redmint said:
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...
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Same down here.

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Plastic 2L Milk bottle - yes
Lid for the very same bottle - no

Hmmmmm
 
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simulatorman said:
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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I simply squash down all the cardboard apart from one larger box (say a breakfast cereal box) and push all the cardboard into this larger box. It packs it all up tidily and gives it weight so the wind won't move it.

We have 2 boxes here and a third food waste bin. I don't see the problem with it, tbh. The system seems to work quite well around here.
 
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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Companies just won't agree with it. Can you imagine Coca-Cola ditching their iconic bottle shape and replacing it with the same one Pepsi use? Or buying a large bottle of beer in the same type of bottle you buy your milk in?

Not only that, a lot of bottle producers would go out of buisness. If they all had to produce exactly the same types of bottles, a lot of them would be squeezed out of the market.
 
twentyone said:
That's interesting. Can't find much about it so do you know the reason why they stopped it?
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I was only a child. the shops near to me used to sell bottles of pop in glass bottles. I can't remember the price but it was probably only about 35p. You used to get 10p off by taking an empty bottle back. The cap said "10p" then some text asking you to return it.
 
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I think some of you are missing the point about recycling. The two main issues are a lack of landfill space and the damage that landfill actually causes with regards to leachate and rendering large quantities of land useless.

Recycling is good, landfilling is bad. Even if there isn't an environmental gain to be made by recycling.
 
Pea0n said:
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
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Perhaps they should do this in a big truck with "Problem?" written on the side of it? :D
 
2 little green boxes for veg waste that goes on the compost
1 grey bin for kitchen food waste with the little bags that are ****. they dont stay in the bin, the food then goes everywhere it smells, i hate it.
General waste bin
Paper/cardboard and plastic bin

Now im all fine with that even if i hate the Fing little bags BUT why do bin men insist on leaving our bins on the path? almost every other house in the street gets it back in their drive, ours is just left smack in the middle of the path, and then it gets kicked over or dragged down the street by some ****. it REALLY ****es me off. its 2 feet away! lazy *****.
 
I agree that our current recycling is an issue. Where I live it isn't too bad in fairness, plastics are basically a big no-no/pain in the arse, but they'll take pretty much anything else.

What I find more of an issue is that sometimes so called 'recycling' isn't actually what we think it is. I have heard that some councils actually just ship our 'recycling' to places like India, where people can go through our rubbish and make use of it there, breaking the common thought that a glass bottle is turned into another glass object...

I think things need to change, I hate the fact there is a part of the pacific ocean, about a mile in diameter that is just tonnes of plastic trapped by currents. I'd personally like to see a better use of washable plastic containers (sandwich boxes) etc. Could we ever reach the day where we go to the supermarket armed with our own containers, and fill up as we see fit?
 
we have 1 bin for general stuff, 1 for all recyclables and a box for glass, wouldn't want any more, where are you meant to put them all ?
 
DiCe! said:
Now im all fine with that even if i hate the Fing little bags BUT why do bin men insist on leaving our bins on the path? almost every other house in the street gets it back in their drive, ours is just left smack in the middle of the path, and then it gets kicked over or dragged down the street by some ****. it REALLY ****es me off. its 2 feet away! lazy *****.
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Our bin men do this as well. They leave the biggest bin in the middle of the path so that you have to move it to get to the door. It's rather annoying that we go to the effort to move the bins to the end of the path like they tell us to and they can't even be bothered to put them back.

I hate the little food bin. It's hardly big enough to properly empty anything into it and it stinks.
 
It is mostly for brand image and the millions spent on marketing that companies will not utilise the same size/shape/colour bottle and as a result they will all need to be made from different plastics.
 
Paul11 said:
but if you live in a block of flats, they don't enforce recycling at all
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Well it's no enforced, no, but flats a lot of flats to have communal recycling facilities. Aside from general waste, I have: paper, cardboard and cartons, green, brown and clear glass, plastics, tins and aluminium, garden and other greens.
 
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