No Waste Like home

squeaky

The posts about establishing your ecological footprint and how much effect you each have on the planet are so good that they have been split off to a thread of their own.

Click there ---> Your ecological footprint

katieowl_2

Banana skins are good plant food without being composted, you can just chop them up and bury them in pots to rot down. Obviously if you eat a lot of bananas you might want to only do this occassionally

Regards

Kate

competitionscafe

I heard on BBC Radio 5 news today that 1 in 3 vehicles in the USA is now an SUV! Maybe Penny should be sent over there to sort out those gas guzzling yanks! Its bad enough over here when you see city dwellers negotiating narrow streets in their 'tanks' to drop of their little darlings at school or go shopping. I even know of someone who imported an American SUV [for £60k!] because the ones in the UK 'weren't powerful enough'

Not to mention how pedestrian unfriendly these huge vehicles are should you be unlucky enough to get in the way of one!

sans_2

for those of us that didn't have it on our TV screens on Thursday it is showing (at least where I am in Scotland) at 9:30pm tonight. Can't wait!!!

lovinlife_2

Thank goodness for that! I was hugely miffed when I checked Teletext and it wasn't on... almost went off on one about Scottish programme scheduling again!

Gingham_Ribbon

katieowl wrote:

Banana skins are good plant food without being composted, you can just chop them up and bury them in pots to rot down. Obviously if you eat a lot of bananas you might want to only do this occassionally

Regards

Kate

We get through about a dozen or so a week at the moment so thanks for that.

MORPH3US

I work in a pub a couple of nights a week and its amazing how many glass bottles and cans they throw away in with the rubbish!!

They pay thousands of £££'s a year to have their rubbish taken away and the council can't even be arsed to give them a recycling bin!!

I am originally from Cheshire and they have a green bag and a red bag, one for paper and one for cans, plastic and glass. They collect each one every other week. Now I have moved to Staffordshire they give you one tiny shopping basket sized box and collect it every 2 weeks. The council are pathetic. They send a leaflet out with your council tax bill showing how they are beating the governments 14% recycling targets by 0.1% and seem really prooud of it, in reality they could be doubling it!!!

I can feel a strongly worded letter coming on to the council but what good will it do? If anything it'll just make me feel like killing someone when I get a rubbish reply from them!!!

M

Yorkielass

when we moved recently we took the aluminum drink cans we've been saving from both home and events I've worked on and we took them to the local place and got £3.20 back for them - not a huge amount of money but every little helps - now just imagine if the pub you worked in collected all the aluminum cans and took them to their local alu can recycling they'd probably make a fair bit of money.

homerecycling

MORPH3US wrote:

I work in a pub a couple of nights a week and its amazing how many glass bottles and cans they throw away in with the rubbish!!

They pay thousands of £££'s a year to have their rubbish taken away and the council can't even be arsed to give them a recycling bin!!

I am originally from Cheshire and they have a green bag and a red bag, one for paper and one for cans, plastic and glass. They collect each one every other week. Now I have moved to Staffordshire they give you one tiny shopping basket sized box and collect it every 2 weeks. The council are pathetic. They send a leaflet out with your council tax bill showing how they are beating the governments 14% recycling targets by 0.1% and seem really prooud of it, in reality they could be doubling it!!!

I can feel a strongly worded letter coming on to the council but what good will it do? If anything it'll just make me feel like killing someone when I get a rubbish reply from them!!!

M

WRAP and Oxford Brookes University produce a guide that demonstrates the economies to be made by licensed premises by recycling glass as well as how to do it -http://www.wrap.org.uk/materials/glass/processing_collection/pubglass/index.html. Some councils do fantastic work and others are the most pitiful waste of life with a built-in negative attitude endemic with working in the public sector but I'm always uncomfortable when people say that others should be doing more - just do it yourself!

Gingham_Ribbon

homerecycling.co.uk wrote:

but I'm always uncomfortable when people say that others should be doing more - just do it yourself!

Of course, if the council do not provide recycling bins nearby, then a car trip is necessary to transport your recycling. This kind of defeats the purpose somewhat, and many people do not have cars.

My nearest recycling centre is exactly 3 miles away and there is not a bus. Fortunately it is next to the supermarket I go to every other week and I take a friend so there are 2 lots of recycling and 2 lots of shopping to deal with in one trip. But otherwise it would be pretty wasteful to take the car.

And since it is 3 miles back, all up very steep hill, I am not able to walk.