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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 30, 2019 15:12:47 GMT
How many places have obligatory waste sorting? I've never come across it. The bins we use at the mooring are occasionally "policed" by irritating flat dwellers but the bin men take it regardless of what is inside the bins. There are recycling and non recycling bins but you can use the non recycling bins for recyclable items. Recycling is a scam devised by people who make money selling scrap metal and bins. Most councils enforce mandortory waste sorting by using the coloured bin system, yes they refuse to take them if you don't sort it. They even refuse to take your rubbish ever if you keep not sorting it out.i presume your bins are collected by biffa or some other private waste collection service as you are on a cart mooring? Biffa seems to be carts preferred contractor for these things. Let's say you have a bin that says 'Glass'. All glass in there? Clear glass and coloured glass? (Oh dear, I used the word 'coloured', bound to be repercussions!) It all gets smashed as you drop the bottles - how does all this mixed glass get re-used? What about the labels glued to the bottles? What about all the chemicals in the different colours of the label printings? What about the glue? What about the tops of the bottles? So, you have bins labelled 'Glass', 'Food Waste', 'Cardboard', 'Paper', 'General Household Waste' (wot that then?). And the bin men come round and you see them tip all the bins into that one hole at the back of their lorry and you say "I thought you were supposed to arrange them seperately?" and Fred Nosebasher with the little bit of fag stuck to his lower lip says "We ain't got time for that!" ps - I am a great believer in recycling and creating as little waste as possible, but once chemicals have been mixed together it is often nigh on impossible to get them back to their natural state, or takes a huge amount of energy and time.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 30, 2019 15:21:32 GMT
How many places have obligatory waste sorting? I've never come across it. The bins we use at the mooring are occasionally "policed" by irritating flat dwellers but the bin men take it regardless of what is inside the bins. There are recycling and non recycling bins but you can use the non recycling bins for recyclable items. Recycling is a scam devised by people who make money selling scrap metal and bins. Most councils enforce mandatory waste sorting by using the coloured bin system, yes they refuse to take them if you don't sort it. They even refuse to take your rubbish forever, if you keep not sorting it out. And then their bin men drive their rubbish truck to the top of a heap of smelly, mouldering rubbish and just drop the lot. Lots of seagulls flying above in search of tasty morsels. Just chuck some earth and grass seeds over the lot and pretend it doesn't exist. It's what they do, you know.
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Post by patty on Apr 30, 2019 16:09:27 GMT
Most councils enforce mandortory waste sorting by using the coloured bin system, yes they refuse to take them if you don't sort it. They even refuse to take your rubbish ever if you keep not sorting it out.i presume your bins are collected by biffa or some other private waste collection service as you are on a cart mooring? Biffa seems to be carts preferred contractor for these things. Let's say you have a bin that says 'Glass'. All glass in there? Clear glass and coloured glass? (Oh dear, I used the word 'coloured', bound to be repercussions!) It all gets smashed as you drop the bottles - how does all this mixed glass get re-used? What about the labels glued to the bottles? What about all the chemicals in the different colours of the label printings? What about the glue? What about the tops of the bottles? So, you have bins labelled 'Glass', 'Food Waste', 'Cardboard', 'Paper', 'General Household Waste' (wot that then?). And the bin men come round and you see them tip all the bins into that one hole at the back of their lorry and you say "I thought you were supposed to arrange them seperately?" and Fred Nosebasher with the little bit of fag stuck to his lower lip says "We ain't got time for that!" ps - I am a great believer in recycling and creating as little waste as possible, but once chemicals have been mixed together it is often nigh on impossible to get them back to their natural state, or takes a huge amount of energy and time. well we have to start somewhere..and hopefully manufacturers and inventors will see the need and sort..
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Post by bodger on Apr 30, 2019 19:05:04 GMT
I caught a moment on that stoopid 'Repair Shop' programme on BBC yesterday. One of the 'expert repairers' was looking at a bit of antique upholstery that had already been much repaired, and said 'this was clearly done during the make and mend revolution'.
It had obviously never occurred to that pillock, or the producers of the programme, who I guess were all smart thirty-somethings, that the human race has been making and mending since we learned how to make blades from flint or bamboo. The only revolution that has occurred is the current throw-away culture.
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Post by Jim on May 2, 2019 6:14:35 GMT
4 bins here, general waste, plastic and glass, paper and cardboard, garden waste. 3 weeks cycle, garden bin every week. Simple. Of course the slow of thinking all complained, not enough bin space etc, yet we have far more bin space than the old little bins. Just too lazy to sort I reckon, like typical fox behavior. I use the garden waste bin as dry storage, cement etc. We compost all our green waste. We are certainly doomed if we listen to the grumpy old cynics round here.
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