Recycling

[DimPrawn]

I think the stuff was sent there on good faith that is was going to be recycled.

We send them broken and useless tulipe fit for the bin and they sell us....?

[BrilloPad]

I dutifully took my reusable Tesco bag to Tescos the other day, and the checkout lady said it was looking a bit tatty and would I like to swap it for a new one.

Doesn't that kind of defeat the object of the exercise?

Do you want all your shopping to fall on the floor?

[minestrone]

We send them broken and useless tulipe fit for the bin and they sell us....?

It's all a crock of tulip anyway. China imports oil to make the plastic crap to send to us which we send back to them for recycling and they just stick it in the ground.

There are 5.8 million plastic items getting thrown into the seas everyday. Sticking our plastic bottles in the green bin ain't going to do that much.

[worzelGummidge]

If I had my way plastic containers would be banned and everything would be glass bottles with the norm to refill empties instead of buying goods in new containers. It's nonsense to keep on throwing things away and recycling plastic bottles and glass.

[DimPrawn]

If I had my way plastic containers would be banned and everything would be glass bottles with the norm to refill empties instead of buying goods in new containers. It's nonsense to keep on throwing things away and recycling plastic bottles and glass.

Or empty coconut shells.

[RichardCranium]

If I had my way plastic containers would be banned and everything would be glass bottles with the norm to refill empties instead of buying goods in new containers. It's nonsense to keep on throwing things away and recycling plastic bottles and glass.

WHS

I find the concept of using a non-renewable resource for one-use-only plastic bottles obscene.

Tax relief for milkmen! that's wot I say.

[NotAllThere]

If we didn't recycle our paper, it would be burned with the rest of our household rubbish. As paper burns rather well, it produces cheaper electricty. Our lower electricty bills would more than offset the cost of the extra rubbish (we pay per sack).

[xchaotic]

If I had my way plastic containers would be banned and everything would be glass bottles with the norm to refill empties instead of buying goods in new containers. It's nonsense to keep on throwing things away and recycling plastic bottles and glass.

I think once you consider that bubbly drinks producers had to collect the bottles, haul them back to the factory on a gas guzzling lorry, clean with nasty chemicals and employ quite a few people in the process, you'll find that it was much more wasteful not only from an ecological point of viem, but also in terms of any resource such as manpower or the most important one - money.

The only reasonable approach would be to switch back to non-recyclable glass and dig it up in your backyard - there's going to be plenty of sand to make glass from and having glass buried deep enough is pretty much harmless.

[Spacecadet]

They should be allowed to build furnace power stations at a more local level to get rid if the paper but nobody will allow it.

Indeed, countries that burn waste to generate electricity are also the countries that recycle more and consequently put very little in to landfill.

[dang65]

Yeah, the problem with plastic is not so much the recycling as the fact that it is used for so many things in the first place. I can't remember when I last saw milk in a carton, though presumably some shops still sell it like that? We used to use an old fashioned milkman, but we get through so much milk in our house that he couldn't keep up and it's all six pint plastic bottles for us these days, but I wish there was an alternative really.

We just have a big box by the back door for all the recycling, except cardboard, and take it all down to the local recycling place if we know we're going past. Don't bother with all the sorting for the dustman. The cardboard builds up till there's enough to put out for the binmen about once a month.

In Germany they have recyling skips on the corner of the street in every neighbourhood, so it's easy to just stroll down the road and dump your stuff without driving to the dump or recycling centre. Also, they do still have the deposit system, and it's obviously reasonably lucrative for the tramps as well. They're always wandering about going through the bins. A couple of carrier bags full of bottles = a couple of bottles of brew from the local beer and baccy shop.