Recycling

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LiE

LiE

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I was thinking this morning, as I took the rubbish out, how things have changed from when I was younger. I don't know if it was just my parents, or everyone, but recycling never used to be such a big thing. I put out 2-3 red sacks to maybe 1 small black bag each week. It's amazing how it's changed - to think pretty much everything used to go into black sacks.

Is this the same for you?
 
Kinda...

We just have different coloured bins.

Green for general waste, Brown for tree branches and thing's decomposible...then baskets for glass / cartons / plastic / paper etc.

I think it's good, people are slowly catching on, so hey :)
 
I like how the council now make us use three seperate bins for our rubbish, and send round three different lorries to collect, that's really thinking about the environment. :rolleyes:
 
anticonscience said:
I like how the council now make us use three seperate bins for our rubbish, and send round three different lorries to collect, that's really thinking about the environment. :rolleyes:
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Well, how else would they keep the rubbish seperate?

Unless the lorry was seperated into three compartments, but then they won't be able to carry as much rubbish, thus having to do more trips theoretically.
 
As someone who works in the recycling industry, it's certainly an exciting time. One of the engineers who used to work here described it as our own equivalent of the industrial revolution. Last week I was at the RWM show at the NEC, and some of the sorting machinery is amazing. Optical sensors can be programmed to spot different types of objects and fire them into different conveyor belts with air jets. God I sound geeky! :eek:

PK!
 
anticonscience said:
It still makes no sense, but hey it's my money they are wasting so why should the council worry about it.
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I would imagine they've weighed up the pros and cons of the extra cost of sending round extra lorries (both financial and environmental) vs the benefits of recycling and worked it out from there.
 
Not really into recycling tbh... newspapers and glass bottles go into my recycling bin everything else goes into black sacks.

I reckon there should be more of an effort for manufacturers to cut down on packaging tbh...
 
dowie said:
Not really into recycling tbh... newspapers and glass bottles go into my recycling bin everything else goes into black sacks.

I reckon there should be more of an effort for manufacturers to cut down on packaging tbh...
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So until manufacturers begin doing their bit, you're just going to be lazy?

Agreed on the idea of manufacturers putting more effort in (some packaging is just ridiculous), but it's really not challenging to seperate household waste.
 
Still in the stone age here in Kingston Upon Thames. While there IS a recycling collection you firstly have to BUY a recycling box from the council and then make sure each material is kept separate in a different box or carrier bag so that's 4 boxes costing a fiver each. You CAN put the recycling in carrier bags but they tend to get ignored by the bin men or a fox finds them and rips them open, both outcomes result in more mess than you started with. To top that all off, if you mix your recycled items together they apparently fine you, all of these things combined have resulted in me popping down to the local Sainsbrys once a week with my recycling instead of relying on the wonderful people at the Kingston waste management center.
 
I have one collection on a Thursday morning who take away everything. Red sacks for paper, metal and plastic thena small box for glass.
 
misterPK said:
As someone who works in the recycling industry, it's certainly an exciting time. One of the engineers who used to work here described it as our own equivalent of the industrial revolution. Last week I was at the RWM show at the NEC, and some of the sorting machinery is amazing. Optical sensors can be programmed to spot different types of objects and fire them into different conveyor belts with air jets. God I sound geeky! :eek:

PK!
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sounds quite interesting to me, I was thinking of such an idea for general high street bins the other week but I guess I should cancel my dragons den entry :mad:

i tell you what, these recycling companies must be making a MINT turning everyones rubbish into cold hard cash :eek:
 
I recycle paper and glass, but that's because I only have bins to do those two. We have so much plastic packaging now it's ridiculous. I can't believe the amount that comes with food alone.

We should start stripping off the excess at the point of sale, ie leave it in Sainsburys and let them pay to deal with it. They are causing the problem at the end of the day. Hit them where it hurts.

The whole plastic shopping bag ban is a farce too. Now I have to BUY shopping bags AND rubbish bags instead of just re-using my shopping bags and my total plastic consumption has increased as a result. What a joke.
 
I take my stuff to the recycling village myself. Its on the way to work, so its nowt to take it. Doesnt just do the standard stuff, also does plastic bottles, cardboard etc. I seem to get through a LOT of plastic bottles.
 
Jonny69 said:
I recycle paper and glass, but that's because I only have bins to do those two. We have so much plastic packaging now it's ridiculous. I can't believe the amount that comes with food alone.
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we have a box for paper, cans and plastic and they must separate them at the recycling depot.
 
And then theres the fact that several local authorities were informed in August that supposedly reycycled rubbish was proven to have been found in India and hadn't been recycled at all, all rubbish together in a land refill site lol
 
Phil99 said:
I would imagine they've weighed up the pros and cons of the extra cost of sending round extra lorries (both financial and environmental) vs the benefits of recycling and worked it out from there.
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Councils working something out...............thats a new one :D
 
We have two big grundon type bins at work, one for general waste, one for cardboard...Seem fine.

Just when the pick up lorry comes it gets put all into the lorry at once :p
 
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