Recycling

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Who hates there recycling system. As i said in another thread i hate the system.
It looks horrid, unsightly and clumsy. Possitive site its good for the enviroment.

I read i a UK national paper they had a weeley bin 10page special. Each council has the same problem.
I county/village hated there bins so much firstly they tryed to force the collecters to get they bins at night (but got refused) then they asked to decorate them and after two particions they said yes.

So it goes to show how much people hates there weeley bins.

Yes its good to recycle and i enjoy it too. But the jobs leading to it is daft. Going to the waste centre is better. Plus my local paper jokingly said that they would provide overalls and boots and gloves to all the residents. Thats how daft it is.

Therefore, what are your thoughts.

Now i've been talking about this via my emails and heres what a few people have said

#We don't have wheelie bins here (yet?) and the current system of black bags for waste and clear for recycling, both collected weekly, works very well.

There are these bins where my mum lives and there's bin much fuss about them. This is partly down to where to store the two types and , as you say, how they look in a pretty market town.#

##Our recycle wheely bin is emptied fortnightly. Our normal wheely bin is emptied weekly. Yet the council is trying to get residents to do more recycling. I am at a loss as to understand their reasoning! I recycle most things, and we have about 5 compost heaps dotted around the garden. We have to drive 10 miles to our nearest council tip.##

[B]So there you go what are your thoughts and well anything else on this subject.[/B]

[queen swords]

wow , we only get our rubish emptied every 2 weeks.
They empty the recycables every week, which drives me mad.
As the waste matter in the fortnightly bin in this hot weather gets to smell and the bluebottle flys lay there eggs and then we get the magots , bloody disgusting it is.
We pay a fortune in council tax every month , and they still dont empty the bin grrrr.
gwad dont get me started lol.

In principle, I'm totally in favour of recycling.... we are already experiencing the effects of not looking after our little planet... and the generations that follow us will benefit from a united recycling effort (amongst other things). That said, given that a large percentage of what we put in our recycling boxes/bins is chucked in landfill anyway, I do feel more than a little aggrieved that whilst us home owners make the effort to separate and sort our recycling, little of it actually gets recycled.

The root of the problem is that we all want everything as cheap as we can get it - therefore, because most plastics, for example, can be produced much cheaper from new than from recycled materials, nobody buys it from the council. Hence it gets dumped in landfill when they ac***ulate too much of it.

Until we globally accept responsibility for our individual impact on the planet and accept that to make improvements will cost us more, we are heading towards certain disaster... albeit not in any of our lifetimes.

[sukisue]

nowt wrong with recyclin in fact i wouldnt mind bein recycled into summat but not wat thinkin on that watch this space

urmm, think I'm about due for recycling . . .

but the truth about "global warming" is far from what they tell you.

One single fact alone is, a volcano erupting produces more c02 than mankind (or womankind) or both together
has produced since time began. Also polar sea temps are lower than they've been for quite a few years.

There's hundreds of other reasons for global warming - it's what the earth does - 20 / 30 years ago they said we were heading for an ice age - so what happened to that?

So why are we being lied to? Wouldn't be - money - would it?

Not that I don't recycle - and my house is blanketed in cosy-wrap, hell even my cars 21 years old, I've had
girlfriends younger than that . . .

Bin men used to collect yer rubbish from yer garden, now we've become a nation of bin pushers, wheel it
out to the curb and as long as it's not too heavy and contains the "correct" rubbish they'll empty it.

QUESTION: What do you do wiv yer batteries - I throw all mine in a carrier bag and take 'em to the tip - eventually. Wonder how many people just sling en in the normal waste 'cos it's a pain thinking wot to do with 2 little triple A's init?
Spose I'll get some smart ass replies now - "mine takes double A's" - and stuff like that.

[sukisue]

still not sure wat to be recycled into any suggestions are very helpful pmsl still thinkin about it

[sukisue]

id like to recycle all the thugs an mps an all the baddies into sawdust for the rabbits an guinea pigs too poo on an any other animal that wants to poo on sawdust

[sukisue]

its me again i need recyclinbut no idea wat any suggestions

[sultry]

i hate recycling...its so akward to do where i am...they give u a blue bin a brown bin a black bin a green bin and a red box thing...no one knows what goes where..i burn most of my rubbish and use the coloured bins for storage lol