See, thats why wheelie bins where invented I guess, as it encourages foxes / scavangers etc.
Obviously that only happens if the bags are left out over night
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See, thats why wheelie bins where invented I guess, as it encourages foxes / scavangers etc.
Obviously that only happens if the bags are left out over night
I recycle everything I can.
Plastic, glass, tins, paper. If I ever have to use a carrier bag that isn't mine (for clothes or leaky packaging) I recycle that.
Reuse the tin foil, don't use paper napkins or paper towells.
I'm fairly eco freindly as far as waste is concerned. I can't stand waste, it's in the name, waste. I like to utilise everything I can to it's full potential instead of chucking good money and good materials away.
Plastic, glass, tins, paper. If I ever have to use a carrier bag that isn't mine (for clothes or leaky packaging) I recycle that.
Reuse the tin foil, don't use paper napkins or paper towells.
I'm fairly eco freindly as far as waste is concerned. I can't stand waste, it's in the name, waste. I like to utilise everything I can to it's full potential instead of chucking good money and good materials away.
Close but no bananasNow, I dont go food shopping much, but are you saying that when you try and take your bags that you had from last weeks shop and use them again, they make you buy some more instead of using the ones you brought along?
If so, thats extreeeeeeeemly idiotic....
I used to re-use my free shopping bags as bin bags. Now they don't give away free shopping bags so I have to buy a pack of bin bags specifically for the purpose. I also have to pay 10p for a re-useable bag which lasts about 5 goes before it's knacked and has to be discarded. If you add up all the plastic bags I get through in a month it's up by about 20%.
So it hasn't saved plastic in any way, it's just saved the supermarket money by not giving out shopping bags and cost me a bit to boot.
On a related subject, I strongly recommend people to get composters for their gardens. A 200L (I think) only costs £12 as it is subsidised by your council usually. Ours was full within 3 months of veg peels and gardening stuff. It reduces rubbish by quite a lot.
And I can't remember the last time I used a new plastic bag from a supermarket - always have spare one in my work bag or in the car.
And I can't remember the last time I used a new plastic bag from a supermarket - always have spare one in my work bag or in the car.
Close but no bananas
I used to re-use my free shopping bags as bin bags. Now they don't give away free shopping bags so I have to buy a pack of bin bags specifically for the purpose. I also have to pay 10p for a re-useable bag which lasts about 5 goes before it's knacked and has to be discarded. If you add up all the plastic bags I get through in a month it's up by about 20%.
So it hasn't saved plastic in any way, it's just saved the supermarket money by not giving out shopping bags and cost me a bit to boot.
Buy decent shopping bags then?
And also, the bags for life in tescos, when they break get another and recycle the broken one, if you really want to be tight and buy them. You also get points for using them, not much for me because I don't shop in supermarkets but i'm sure, a weeks shopping, it's about 20 points, better than spending £20.
When i worked in tescos, the amount of plastic bags used in a day was disgusting, you would have a big big big wad of them say 400 bags and it'd be gone within a couple of hours. Most people just chuck them in the bin and considering how much plastic it is, thats a disgrace. Not to mention the amount blowing around in the wind. All because they're too lazy to get some shopping bags, or bring their old ones back in.
Close but no bananas
I used to re-use my free shopping bags as bin bags. Now they don't give away free shopping bags so I have to buy a pack of bin bags specifically for the purpose. I also have to pay 10p for a re-useable bag which lasts about 5 goes before it's knacked and has to be discarded. If you add up all the plastic bags I get through in a month it's up by about 20%.
So it hasn't saved plastic in any way, it's just saved the supermarket money by not giving out shopping bags and cost me a bit to boot.
Well one guy, some academic, against carrier bags, "sited that plastic bags are useless most get used as bin liners so should be banned"
Didnt understand his arguement one bit and still dont. Co-op have the right idea using bags that are compostable.
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Assuming you actually eat your food you wont throw away as much as you buy from a supermarket. I doubt 'most' get used as bin bags at all.
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I would do it more if there were more things going on around here.
What I want to know though..is who owns the material. When I buy a tin of coke - I buy the coke and tin. I then send it away for free (well I pay for that technically through council tax). It then gets washed, melted etc., and then made into another tin which coke will buy. I then buy it off coke...
What I want to know though..is who owns the material. When I buy a tin of coke - I buy the coke and tin. I then send it away for free (well I pay for that technically through council tax). It then gets washed, melted etc., and then made into another tin which coke will buy. I then buy it off coke...
I don't recycle for the simple reason I have better things to do with my time. I don't want to spend my evening taking paper labels of tins and washing them out. Plastic where I live it can not just go in one bin, different types different bins and that is the same for paper. Glass, you have to drive to the local tip, very helpful for the environment that is.
Yet again the authorities place the recycling onus in the little man instead of tackling the source.
Is it not more efficient in terms of resources and energy never to make the waste in the first place than have to recycle it?
Yet again the authorities place the recycling onus in the little man instead of tackling the source.
Is it not more efficient in terms of resources and energy never to make the waste in the first place than have to recycle it?
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Do you grow your own food? Yeah i think your right, every house should have piped with ketchup, beer, baked beens and milk...
Your authority may not but here is good. We're getting kerbside cardboard and plastic in Jan to add to everything else which will reduce the effort factor.
I assume you lot do actually know the whole recycling thing is nothing to do with the environment other than some Kudos from the local hippies? Councils have brought in the separate bins and stuff to cut down on the amount of landfill before we run out or space for it.
Surely that is entirely to do with the environment?
I think you've missed the point. My plastic consumption has increased as a result. The ban on free carrier bags is supposed to be a drive to reduce plastic.
I though that was quite obvious
Same here but a lot of people seem to be going on about how its rubbish (see what I did there) due to environmental benefits not being all that. Was pointing that wasn't the main reason for the increase in kerbside recycling.I though that was quite obvious
How can concerns over our landfills hitting maximum capacity be anything other than an environmental issue?
Well, it was time for my monthly recycle run today and what an utter pain it was once again. Filled the car up with it all, drove down to the dump to be met by a 20 min queue, 'that's fine' i thought, 'it's a nice day so I'll just turn up the radio and relax in the sun'. When i finally got to the front of the queue i noticed to my dismay that the cardboard recycling skips were just... gone, ok, so that was one thing i was going to have to take back to my flat with me and try again another day, no big deal, it's only a 5 min drive. I pulled up to the bins and proceeded to dump all of the glass, at which point i decided i was clearly drinking too much wine these days but that's another topic. I then found the plastic bins were ALL full, as were the paper bins.
To sum it up, i went down there with a car full of cardboard, glass, plastic and paper. I came back with a car nearly full of cardboard, plastic and paper which i promptly chucked in the wheelie bin outside my block of flats.
The recycling system in Kingston Upon Thames is dire.
To sum it up, i went down there with a car full of cardboard, glass, plastic and paper. I came back with a car nearly full of cardboard, plastic and paper which i promptly chucked in the wheelie bin outside my block of flats.
The recycling system in Kingston Upon Thames is dire.
I would guess that the local authorities see it as a financial issue first and foremost due to penalties they will incur.