tetra pak petition your council

jdandi

Leicester City Council does not recycle Tetrapak.

Recycling can be hard work according to the Mrs and I agree with her but it is hopefully well worth the effort.

Just young enough to remember the days when you could refill all sorts of items into the same packaging - we need to look to our supermarkets to do the same again..........

Sainsbury's looks like it is putting effort into packaging for my green compost bin, may the rest follow and quickly (although it only accounts for a small % of their packaging it is a step in the right direction).

Ken68

Norfolk don't but FENLAND do, goes in the blue bin for dry recyclables and there is a Tetra collection point somewhere in ELY.

make_life_easier

What is tetra pak?? My council has just started recycling plastic bottles only, should I send a letter of complaint to them or what?:o

starlite_2

If 'innocent' care so much why don't they start making their drinks in glass bottles instead of plastic and operate a returns system for them so they can be resused. Thats far better than recycling and gives people more of an imperative to bother.

We are so far behind in this country with that. In Eastern Europe everything comes in glass bottles and you get a few pence back for the empties. Not only that but it's the same for drinks cans, you get around 5% of the cost back if you return it to a shop for recycling.

tiredwithtwins

for anyone in sheffield; Waitrose, and Sainsburys on archer road, both have tetrapak recycling facilities according to tetrapaks website.

didnt see them when i went to s's today though

gromituk

make_life_easier wrote:

What is tetra pak??

Erm, try http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=tetra+pak&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

amboy

starlite wrote:

If 'innocent' care so much why don't they start making their drinks in glass bottles instead of plastic and operate a returns system for them so they can be resused. Thats far better than recycling and gives people more of an imperative to bother.

We are so far behind in this country with that. In Eastern Europe everything comes in glass bottles and you get a few pence back for the empties. Not only that but it's the same for drinks cans, you get around 5% of the cost back if you return it to a shop for recycling.

hmm gets me thinking back to the days when we sold fizzy drinks in glass bottles and 10p was the deposit, used to work a treat and gave kids extra pocket money when they used to collect from neighbours etc.

Dont know why they stopped it, everything tastes better in glass IMO


Also the Eastern Europeans that I talk to who do try and return their empty beer bottles, think we are mad for not having such a system.

dogran_2

amboy wrote:

Dont know why they stopped it, everything tastes better in glass IMO

I agree. Then theres the matter of phthalates...
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/newscience/oncompounds/phthalates/phthalates.htm

From what Ive hear & read they can leech from plastic bottles (eg bottled water) into the water, so your bottled spring water may not be completely natural....
If you google for it, you'll find the good & the bad view points.

Back to the subject.... the tetrapaks & plastic bottles will fair better environmentally if you factor in the transport ie glass is heavier. I still prefer glass though.

Ksandra

Recycling Tetra-pak in the UK isn't actually environmentally friendly. The only facility in the UK to be able to recycle it was in Fife, but that has just closed down, so now the nearest recycling plant is in Iceland.

Bearing in mind the process involved in washing off the wax and foil etc, when combined with the environmental damage of the aircraft to fly it to the plant, please, please, please, DON'T write to your council asking them to recycle tetra-pak. Find alternative products preferably sold in aluminium cans (as there is hardly any drop in quality of aluminium no matter how many times it is recycled, so it can in theory be reused indefinately) or if not plastic bottles (plastic cartons are also very hard to recycle because the quality of the cartons is so low).

Ksandra

Oh and the reason Fife closed, it wasn't economically viable. Doesn't that say something about how bad tetra-pak is when a company with a monoply can't make a profit.