General Vent

RuthnJasper

First world problems.


Try living in Syria, Somalia or North Korea. I very much doubt that they complain about recycling bins there.

kwikbreaks

RuthnJasper wrote: »

First world problems.

This board is pretty much devoted to first world problems. If you object to gripes on such matters maybe you should just read other boards.

daytona0

fleshandbone wrote: »

I really dislike the tv show the Simpsons

Calm down, Grimey

Riggyman

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

Road tax has nothing to do with roads, council tax pays for that.

One would imagine that the person on the bicycle pays council tax?

Riggyman

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

Road tax has nothing to do with roads, council tax pays for that.

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I don't object to sorting out recyclabes from general waste even though what plastics and metals they'll accept for kerbside collection isn't all that clear.

Where I do have a gripe is the way my council has chosen to do recycling. Unlike many places we don't have a single recycling wheelie bin we have a potential 5 extra containers...
A brown bin for garden waste
A plastic box for paper and card (must be cut down to cereal box size)
A plastic box for bottles and glass jars - no other glass allowed
A plastic box for plastics and metal - all manner of not easily found rules on just what plastics and metal
A food waste container

Most houses they collect from the front and with terraces which make up a large chunk of the older town there is no side entrance so you either store all those boxes in your front garden (if lucky enough to have one) or store them somewhere indoors or store them in the garden and carry them possibly dripping wet through the house. I suspect that many don't recycle at all for this reason and put everything in general waste.

We do recycle as I can conceal the boxes in my front garden although I don't bother with food waste. Our reward on collection day is a street littered with recycled items that never quite made it to the lorry and a hunt for our boxes as the collectors seem to have a competition on how far they can throw the things and how many they can break.

I do love a good whinge

And the alternative is to pay more council tax to cover the cost of you not source segregating your recyclables.

kwikbreaks

Of course it would cost a bit more for the extra sorting but I'm pretty much certain that there would be more participation for the reasons I indicated and that should pay for the sorting. There would be less spillage too - I can't say that would mean a saving because my council seem to rely on wind and traffic to disperse that. In any event there are many councils that have taken the single bin approach. I wish mine would.

daytona0

fleshandbone wrote: »

Look don't come on this board and start going on about how difficult it is in other countries, it is not our fault they are born and bred to want to kill each other is it, it is exactly these types of countries that have fueled a new kind of hatred, disease and racism all over the World.

Look, I lack the knowledge to hold a heated World Affairs debate but I don't think it would be silly to say that the actions of the US and UK over the past 10+ years has helped to fuel hatred across a lot of "these types of countries".

I think the poster is spot on though. That's why I posted the simpsons pictures, because in the grand scheme of life I'm just happy that I can walk down the road without being blown up by a suicide bomber or IED. Or maybe I don't have to leave the ruins of my former home and travel to Syria to seek refuge, learn their language, take their benefits and be treated like aliens by far right groups or feel insecure/vulnerable when Syraexit is being discussed.

In the pot luck of life, we were all lucky (for now) to have been born in the UK! People tend to forget that. And it isn't a crime to say that! Just chill because it is one of the benefits of having freedom of speech

Pound

fleshandbone wrote: »

Drivers that park in 2 spaces

I don't mind, I can usually squeeze my small old banger in one of the spaces anyway

fleshandbone

Censorship is a very bad thing indeed.

Pennywise

summerlady wrote: »

Why should you not sort your rubbish? You create it with what you buy. The problem is that we have more packaging which leads to more waste, and people buy more goods than they did in the days of the metal bins. As other posters have said, our waste needs to be sorted to prevent it all going to landfill.

We used to have open fires before central heating, so we'd burn most of our rubbish, such as packaging, etc., meaning it didn't even need to be sorted or recycled. It seems that as we solve one problem and make progress, we cause another problem!