Walking to the station this morning I admired the devotion of the residents for recycling. General rubbish is black bags and wheelie bins. Recycle cans nicely washed in clear bags along with paper wrapping; bottles washed, cardboard flattened and parcelled up neater than my Christmas wrapping. This is opposite to Paddy who chucks everything in one bag risking the £10 council fine. Along comes the privatised rubbish truck and all rubbish, recycled or not gets chucked in the same.
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostWalking to the station this morning I admired the devotion of the residents for recycling. General rubbish is black bags and wheelie bins. Recycle cans nicely washed in clear bags along with paper wrapping; bottles washed, cardboard flattened and parcelled up neater than my Christmas wrapping. This is opposite to Paddy who chucks everything in one bag risking the £10 council fine. Along comes the privatised rubbish truck and all rubbish, recycled or not gets chucked in the same.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014 -
You realise that one lorry can have multiple compartments right?
I would wash glass things but I have to pay for the water to d it with; it's much more efficient if they wash everything their end. Which they do.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostYou realise that one lorry can have multiple compartments right?
I would wash glass things but I have to pay for the water to d it with; it's much more efficient if they wash everything their end. Which they do."A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostNot this one, black bag in one hand, recycled in the other and both crushed together.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostWalking to the station this morning I admired the devotion of the residents for recycling. General rubbish is black bags and wheelie bins. Recycle cans nicely washed in clear bags along with paper wrapping; bottles washed, cardboard flattened and parcelled up neater than my Christmas wrapping. This is opposite to Paddy who chucks everything in one bag risking the £10 council fine. Along comes the privatised rubbish truck and all rubbish, recycled or not gets chucked in the same.
Now we also have a green bin. Evrything that used to go into the black bin now goes in the green bin. The black bin is now for plastics and card.
Plastics confuse me though. I generally look for the recycleable logo that is embossed somewhere on the plastic container / package. If it's there, into the bin it goes. It appears that not all recycleable plastics are recycled by our local authority though. Only certain ones & recently the collection have started getting shirty about the wrong kinds of recycleable plastics in the green bin.
It's all becoming a real faff.Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostWashing the cans and bottles? How much time to the council expect us all to have on our hands?Comment
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Our bins are humming at the moment, hot nappies.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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I have a brown box in the kitchen for food waste, which then goes into the big brown bin along with garden waste. Plus a green bin for general stuff, and a big blue box for paper - and I think plastic bottles, but I don't tend to have many of them.
I don't have a problem with it up to a point. The thing that annoys me is at least 90% of the paper I'm throwing away every fortnight is either junk mail,or other stuff that I could do without or could be emailed.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostNot this one, black bag in one hand, recycled in the other and both crushed together.
1) Getting everyone to sort their rubbish
2) Provide a service to collect sorted materials
3) Having somewhere to take and process everything
Maybe they got #1 done early. Maybe they're not allowed to spend the money on #2 & #3 until they know there is a demand i.e #1 is happening. Maybe #2 & #3 don't have the capacity for the whole town, so some streets still get everything taken to landfill in the interim.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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