Recycling - whats the difference?

spankymonkey_2

i have quite a big lawn and in the summer its a pain to get rid of the grass cuttings (i was thinking of getting a composter but we wouldnt need the compost) my local council has just introduced another recycle bin for grass cuttings garden waste etc. but at a price of £36 a year! other councils have this bin emptied for free..........

steveo3002

when the recycle truck comes round here they scatter most of it up the street and just leave it blowing around...yet we'd get fined if we slung stuff in the road

oldone_2

I refuse to recycle period. Why should I spend time, money ,effort and petrol doing what my council taxes pay the council to do.

To give you an idea of how stupid it all is, my council don't collect glass bottles for recycling.They want me to use my car and petrol,polluting the atmosphere to take them to a bottle bank 3 miles away. No way.

All recycling should be done at the local tip which is far more efficient, cost effective, and would enable the councils to meet the E.U imposed landfill targets.

HC_2

oldone wrote: »

To give you an idea of how stupid it all is, my council don't collect glass bottles for recycling.They want me to use my car and petrol,polluting the atmosphere to take them to a bottle bank 3 miles away. No way.

Can't you go to the bottle bank when you visit the supermarket, or when you pass one when you're out and about, rather than make a special trip?

oldone_2

HC wrote: »

Can't you go to the bottle bank when you visit the supermarket, or when you pass one when you're out and about, rather than make a special trip?

No. The bottle bank is in Tesco, and we shop in Waitrose which is a mile in the opposite direction.

Another example of how stupid this all is. We have two wheelie bins and three baskets. A nearby block of flats, for practical reasons, don't have any.All their rubbish has to be put into black sacks and left outside on collection day. So we do the same, taking our sacks across the road and putting them on the flat's pile.

For goodness sake we are paying the council to provide a service. So what do they do - use prevention of terrorism legislation to check our bins. If they said for every 10% recycled our rubbish collection element of council tax would be reduced 10%, I would play along with them.As it is any savings they make are at our expense, and may even be used to protect council workers platinum pension schemes.

Sailor_Sam

Oldone i think that is a ridiculous comment to make, ok a lot of councils could do a lot more, but they need the help of their residents. With a little luck, if we all recycled more our council taxes may be kept down, but i don't think that is the main reason we need to do it. Recycling, just like street-lighting and the library is a service , why should'nt we be paying for it. It is a benefit that we receive !
Just in case you don't quite understand, the benefit we get from recycling is, we are helping to save the Earth.
Our planets resources are finite, we have no right to use them up, we are only guardians in temporary control, we need to pass the planet onto future generations.
You are not recycling for your benefit, you are doing it for the benefit of your children and grandchildren. Are you really saying you are not willing to pay a little for them to have a better future.
This is a pet hate of mine, i think maybe i do go a bit over the top sometimes, i go out of my way to recycle everything and anything that i can, even the till receipt from Asda goes in with the papers.
I'm not doing this for my benefit, i'm 55, i'll be dead by the time it matters. I'm not doing it for my children, i don't have any. Now i think about it i'm probably going out of my way, and paying a little extra so that your grandchildren have a better life.

Debt_Free_Chick

I don't think any council offers waste deposal facilities to any business - if they do, it's not FOC. Businesses have to pay to have any waste removed and that includes recycling.

DCFC79

uktim29 wrote: »

We can't put plastic or cardboard in our!

we can only put the plastic milk bottles, paper, glass jars and tins/cans, the only time cardboard is collected is at christmas and you have to tie with string and put it outside, different councils will let you put differnet items in the kerbside box as opposed to all the councils let you put the same items in them

THE_LONE_RANGER_4

Its all a big ripp off it gets sent to a third world country , and we are already paying for it to be recycled , why are we paying twice and doing it ourselves??.
Any one who thinks our councill tax will actually go done must be deluded.

DCFC79

oldone wrote: »

No. The bottle bank is in Tesco, and we shop in Waitrose which is a mile in the opposite direction.

dont waitrose offer recylcing facilities for glass, we have to do the same for any plastic bottles and fruit juice cartons when we go to tesco and i dont have a problem with it,