Recycling??? ITS NOT OUR FAULT!!!

bridiej

We used to put our bags out in the morning, only takes a few minutes for the seagulls to have a go!

Thankfully we have wheelie bins now.

Milky_Mocha

bridiej wrote:

Shepway council have just started a recycling initiative - thing is they will only accept paper, cardboard, plastic bottles (coke variety), tins and jars.

They wont accept plastic milk or juice cartons or any other type of plastic (including carrier bags).

We dont eat much tinned or jarred food, and we certainly dont have a lot of fizzy drinks so our enormous black box has gone out today complete with one little water bottle and one baked beans tin!

Seems crazy to me, why bother if you cant recycle the things people use on a regular basis?!

Is it only plastic bottles, bridie? Gosh they must think I'm truly thick. I filled our black box with glass bottles - full! That would probably explain why its gone missing. They prob took it back to their offices as an example of the worst use of the box. I'll have to go and read all those leaflets again. And the timetable, jeez. Why can't they just collect everything on the same day each week?

spendaholic

In Canada they have returnable deposits on things like plastic milk containers. We should have those over here, but even better, they should bring back glass bottles with returnable deposits on them. Me and my brother used to earn a small fortune returning all the pop bottles to our local outdoor. When I suggested to our council that they collected recyclable plastic containers they said it would take too long, and cost too much money, to administer, and that they were having problems enough getting residents used to the one week grey bin collection, the next week green bin collection. One said local resident even went on our local news complaining about this system, asking why should she waste time sorting through her rubbish when she's busy enough. That certainly generated a lot of emails and letters.

purplegirluk1

bridiej wrote:

Shepway council have just started a recycling initiative - thing is they will only accept paper, cardboard, plastic bottles (coke variety), tins and jars.

They wont accept plastic milk or juice cartons or any other type of plastic (including carrier bags).

We dont eat much tinned or jarred food, and we certainly dont have a lot of fizzy drinks so our enormous black box has gone out today complete with one little water bottle and one baked beans tin!

Seems crazy to me, why bother if you cant recycle the things people use on a regular basis?!

We live in Shepway and have just started using the recycling box and bag too. I am sure that I have read that at the moment they are trying to find ways of recycling other items such as plastic bags and milk cartons but they appear to cost far more than the items we are currently able to save. We have put our black box out twice now and it has been full to the brim both times as has the bag full of paper and card. I realise that we may feel we are still wasting resources but don't you think it is brilliant that they have finally taken the lead and demanded that the people realise that we must recyle in order to preserve our precious world? Where you may not be saving many bottles and tins I am sure that there are plenty of people who like my family have a full box by bin day, and as the saying goes "every little helps".

BWZN93

calleyw wrote:

Since when have they stopped providing boxes. I use to live in Southdown in Bath about 10 years ago and I had green box to put my recycling in. I assume the reason for no wheelie bins is because they look ugly and having no where to put them. As Bath has a lot of flats so there would a wheelie bin per flat. 10 flats so 10 wheelie bins to home.

Mind you nothing surprises me any more. Just look at the Spa project. ummmmmm lots of glass. Every time I walk past it about 10 pieces are smashed.

According to my leaflet in my black box I can put glass, tins, paper, and even spray cans. But no plastic. My green bin takes cardboard, and green garden stuff but no food.

I am lucky that I live 5 mins walk from my local recycling centre so can walk to it with my plastic. And even buy compost so no more buying from B&Q for me. And way cheaper. Take and fill your own bag £1. Bargain.

Yours

Calley

I wish they did give recycling boxes, We dont have one, I checked the council website on the issue, but I couldnt find anything. I do think they should at least give the houses wheelie bins though (we are in a house) as we do get a lot of wildlife raiding the bags and creating more mess, and there is simply nowhere else I can put them that wont get attacked, and I dont really fancy leaving bin bags full of rubbish in the house, especially when considering that the house is a student property with 7 bedrooms - imagine how many pizza boxes in a week that is :eek: .

Although, tbh, I home make pizza's for me and boyf, so we dont contribute - only small amounts of packaging from tomato paste tubes, bag from mozzarella ball, bag from mushrooms and the bag from the flour.

As for 10 wheelie bins, they take up less space than black bags from 10 flats!

I will call the council though and find out the recycling box policy - we move in 2 weeks so ill do it for the new place.

And yes, the Bath spa farce is appalling with all them broken glass panels, the council has forgotten that thousands of drunks walk round the city and break anything they see. :mad: And I blame only half of that on students, the locals are just as bad for lack of respect for public property.

Jo xx

bridiej

Milky_Mocha wrote:

Is it only plastic bottles, bridie? Gosh they must think I'm truly thick. I filled our black box with glass bottles - full! That would probably explain why its gone missing. They prob took it back to their offices as an example of the worst use of the box. I'll have to go and read all those leaflets again. And the timetable, jeez. Why can't they just collect everything on the same day each week?

Sorry, it's glass as well, I put "jars" instead of glass!! We dont have that many glass things either.....!

It is a nightmare, have to keep checking the leaflet to see "can I put this in it?".

When did your box go missing?

tr3mor

irnbru wrote:

In addition to this they (California) had machines where you could refill your bottled water thus saving having to buy another plastic bottle.

something like a tap? they have them here too !!

jockettuk

i love my councils reycyling policy.. they gave us green boxes they were to small they gave us huge wheelie bins and apart from glass and hard plastic like yogurt pots you can put anything in the bins..cardboard which is a godsend as most packaging has cardboard there are only 2 of us living here and ive just put out my bin for its fortnightly collection and it was full had to put out 2 black bags as well.. this time of year with buying icepops etc i generate more packaging so great to get rid of it.. boyfriend lives in aylesbury there recycling policy is rubbish but oh they do now have a glass collection they give you a bin to put it in but if anyof it broken they dont take it which makes me laugh as they chuck it in the back of a lorry anyway lol

WHA

Our local council don't do collections of plastics and there are no collection points for plastics at all, except for one large skip at the local tip (sorry Household Waste Recycling Centre!)

Very easy to see why. Their actions are "scored" by weight of recyclables compared with weight of landfill. Plastic weighs little, so a lorry full of plastic doesn't increase their score by as much as a lorry full of paper.

So most peoples "non recyclable" wheelie bins are full of plastic, which must be about the worst thing to landfill due to slow decomposition and chemical reactions etc.

Also, the council won't accept anything that isn't in their specially provided green boxes, so they won't take larger cardboard left on top or other recyclables left with the boxes at all.

They've also spent loads of money in installing new street litter bins - a block of three bins - one for non-recyclable, one for tins and one for glass. So even the street litter plastics go in the non-recyclable. Of course, the council don't empty them as often now there are three, so the non-recyclable is full after a day or two, whilst the others are virtually empty. By the time the council van turns up, there is rubbish scattered all around the bins. Worst still, I saw a council van put the contents of all three bins in the same rubbish wagon - I asked why and he told me it was because people put non-recyclable in the tins and glass bins when the other was full and he wasn't allowed to try to split them out again - even for obvious items.

So, it's all down to politics and very little to do with the environment. Thanks politicians, your're the stars!!!!!!!

bridiej

tr3mor wrote:

something like a tap? they have them here too !!

PMSL!!!!!!!!!!!!