How much recyclng do we all do? Will be interested to read answers from posters in other countries, in addition to the UK.
I think I'm pretty good at recycling - old newspapers, envelopes, paper from work (shredded), cereal boxes, plastic yogurt pots (washed up), plastic milk bottles and the like, cans and tins (food or drink). Oh and all glass jars, be they empty wine bottles of jam jars/cook-in sauces/that type of thing.
Quiet day Balders?
In New York there used to be decent recycling, now it is very dodgy as the City has cut back on their program. It really for all practical intent and purposes comes down to each apartment building policy. I find that as such I am getting sloppier also. Don't recycle cans anymore or plastic, just glass and paper. Nothing to be very proud of to be honest.
I don't understand why people don't recycle. It's no real hardship to put things in a different bin. Don't moan about having a slop bucket in every home(c) Daily Mail, just do your little bit.
It all depends on what kind of accomodation setting you live in too I think. Previously when I was in Australia, we had 3 large wheelie bins, one for general waste, one for paper/glass/cans etc and the last one for green waste being organic/tree clippings type stuff. Recycling was easy then as you'd fill it up and put it out for weekly collection
In Scotland, my flat is on the 4th floor, so although I carry my glass/cans/paper to the recycling bins 50-250 metres down the road, I do find myself throwing out cans etc in the normal rubbish as it feels like less of a hassle (ie I can take the rubbish bin down and throw it out as I head out for the day, rather than pulling out all the cans/glass/paper and putting them into their respective recycling bin and then going back up to my flat to return my reusable bag) I'm all for recycling, however I find it much easier back home. So I'd say in Australia, we aren't too bad, but then again, I'm only speaking from my personal experience.
Btw, can anyone name the most recycled product in the world?
Quote from: Two Ton Ted on November 23, 2011, 12:35:32 PM
Quiet day Balders?
The subject came up in some work I'm doing actually!
'Previously when I was in Australia, we had 3 large wheelie bins, one for general waste, one for paper/glass/cans etc and the last one for green waste being organic/tree clippings type stuff.'Yeah that's what we have, although have to take the glass to a bottlebank, but there's one in most supermarket car parks round my way. Bit annoying with the green waste one, not supposed to put apple cores etc in, which I suppose is understandable to an extent, but also the trunk of a broccoli stalk you can't put in. Put the pumpkin outers in but usually wait a few weeks till they're covered before putting that one out.
I have a plastic skip that I can put all my recycled stuff in and carry it down to the road where it is picked up once every two weeks. So I don't need to seperate stuff into different containers. Down the road there is no recycling from the flats at all. So it really is more luck than anything else. As for furniture and the like. There is a good and very helpful recycling dump with people to help you put stuff in the right place ten minute car ride away.
Quote from: aussierod on November 23, 2011, 12:53:28 PM
Btw, can anyone name the most recycled product in the world?
Is it Peter Crouch?
We get to recycle paper, cardboard, plastics, glass, tin cans, clothes, garden waste and kitchen waste at home for council collection. It has cut my rubbish bag output by about 3/4. And it keeps Fred on the streets. :dft012:
Quote from: aussierod on November 23, 2011, 12:53:28 PM
Btw, can anyone name the most recycled product in the world?
Beer!
Balders recycling here in California is pervasive. We used to have the three different bins we would leave out once per week for them to pick up however now our city is able to separate cardboard, cans, and plastic at the refuge plant automatically. so we now throw everything in the garbage bin.
I have no idea how they do it but they stopped having us use the bins about 1.5 years ago.
What I do know is much of this is sent on container ships to China so they can ship us back products.
Beer, wine, pizza boxes and plastic bottles/containers all go in recycling with any other metal or paper products.
All to be fired off to China and put into a landfill.
Quote from: RidgeRider on November 23, 2011, 01:06:04 PM
Balders recycling here in California is pervasive. We used to have the three different bins we would leave out once per week for them to pick up however now are city is able to separate cardboard, cans, and plastic at the refuge plant automatically. so we know throw everything in the garbage bin.
I have no idea how they do it but they stopped having us use the bins about 1.5 years ago.
What I do know is much of this is sent on container ships to China so they can ship us back products.
Sounds very labour-intensive. Mind you god knows how they sort all the shredded paper out of my bin (lots of people shred here I've noticed so I'm not the only one).
Old clothes/shoes etc are quite a new thing but we do them too now.
I'm often amazed by certain boroughs which provide 4 different coloured boxes for recycling (which you have to find room to put, even if you're in a tiny 1 bed studio). Wandsworth Borough Council provides orange sacks, into which you place everything that can be recycled.
They then send these sacks off to Merton, where they are dropped off outside the houses of the less well-off for sorting into the relevant coloured boxes by the local residentia.
Quote from: BalDrick on November 23, 2011, 01:16:00 PM
Quote from: RidgeRider on November 23, 2011, 01:06:04 PM
Balders recycling here in California is pervasive. We used to have the three different bins we would leave out once per week for them to pick up however now are city is able to separate cardboard, cans, and plastic at the refuge plant automatically. so we know throw everything in the garbage bin.
I have no idea how they do it but they stopped having us use the bins about 1.5 years ago.
What I do know is much of this is sent on container ships to China so they can ship us back products.
Sounds very labour-intensive. Mind you god knows how they sort all the shredded paper out of my bin (lots of people shred here I've noticed so I'm not the only one).
Old clothes/shoes etc are quite a new thing but we do them too now.
Here in North Hampshire, we used to recycle everything. Then we were told that shredded paper could not be accepted, since their equipment was not capable of recycling this. So it just gets slung in with the other stuff now.
Then we received a leaflet explaining that while plastic bottles could be recycled, no other form of plastic containers (yoghurt pots, plastic vegetable tarys etc) should be recycled because these are shipped to bleedin India to be recycled and the local Council felt the Carbon footprint was too big.
I think most of us want to recycle, but surely it is down to our 'leaders' to get their act together and get the right equipment in to do the job! You do wonder if someone is making some serious wonga out of this somewhere. I bet Fred could tell some interesting stories!!
Flanders is "world leader" in recycling. We recycle everything, companies and individual households alike. I must say I am pretty pleased with all the effort our government puts into recycling. It is one of the only policy areas in which we see considerable progress.
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We have three kind of sacks in Brussels: white for general trash, yellow for everything paper and blue for everything plastic (no yoghurt pots). We have glass containers on almost every street corner. Next to that, the government picks up free of charge organic waste (leafs, branches) and bigger things (chairs, ...). Every citizen is however asked whether the object he throws away has no more value/function or still can have value for someone else. For instance, if your sofa is old but refurbish-able, then they will suggest one of the non-profit organizations to pick it up: there is a scheme of second hand shops which give unemployed a job in fixing things. If it is broken,then the local council will take care of it. For electronic devices, we have to pay a small fee when we buy it (something like 5 % of the actual cost) but that means that every company which sells the electronic device will also have to take care of your old device. So if you buy a new TV because your old one is broken, the old TV will be taken away by the people who deliver your new TV. You can also call the local council to pick up your broken TV/fridge/... free of charge.
There is many more but it is a start, isn't it?
Quote from: Scrumpy on November 23, 2011, 01:30:24 PM
Quote from: BalDrick on November 23, 2011, 01:16:00 PM
Quote from: RidgeRider on November 23, 2011, 01:06:04 PM
Balders recycling here in California is pervasive. We used to have the three different bins we would leave out once per week for them to pick up however now are city is able to separate cardboard, cans, and plastic at the refuge plant automatically. so we know throw everything in the garbage bin.
I have no idea how they do it but they stopped having us use the bins about 1.5 years ago.
What I do know is much of this is sent on container ships to China so they can ship us back products.
Sounds very labour-intensive. Mind you god knows how they sort all the shredded paper out of my bin (lots of people shred here I've noticed so I'm not the only one).
Old clothes/shoes etc are quite a new thing but we do them too now.
Here in North Hampshire, we used to recycle everything. Then we were told that shredded paper could not be accepted, since their equipment was not capable of recycling this. So it just gets slung in with the other stuff now.
Then we received a leaflet explaining that while plastic bottles could be recycled, no other form of plastic containers (yoghurt pots, plastic vegetable tarys etc) should be recycled because these are shipped to bleedin India to be recycled and the local Council felt the Carbon footprint was too big.
I think most of us want to recycle, but surely it is down to our 'leaders' to get their act together and get the right equipment in to do the job! You do wonder if someone is making some serious wonga out of this somewhere. I bet Fred could tell some interesting stories!!
I know a bloke in East London who has people drive around in a couple of trucks collecting cardboard that's left in the streets. Each truck load gets compressed and stored in his lock-up. He gets about 80 truck fulls a week into the lock-up. He then gets this shipped off to China who pay for the lot. He earns about £3,500 a week profit.
Nice business if you own a truck and a small bit of storage space.
Additionally, in Belgium you have to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket or any other store. The result is a massive drop in the number of plastic bags (75 %) littering up our communities. Most shops don't even have plastic bags any more but have either a fashionable re-usable bag (which people continue to use hence it is free marketing) or a cardboard bag which can be recycled (or was already recycled). I never go to the supermarket without my re-usable (handy) bag and a lot of people do the same.
That really annoys me, the over-packaged products. It's toothpaste FFS, no need for it to be in a cardboard tube which probably only half of consumers will even recycle.
The other thing that annoys me is supermarkets doing buy-one-get-one-free - quite often the second one will be out of date before you come to eat it. Why not just half price on the one item? Supermarkets will cut down on transport costs, as will customers. Also applies to the over-packaging thing above.
'...in addition to that we have a 'Peel' bin where all potato peelings, vegetable matter, old tea bags, basically anything organic are placed, when that gets full we put it into one of our compost bins.'
We would do that but we really don't have any soil areas where compost would be used, whole garden is just grass. But if the council want to pick up a green bin, seems to me they could put all this stuff in it too. Sure there might be a rodent problem at the site but I'd imagine there already is anyway.
Quote from: sipwell on November 23, 2011, 01:46:49 PM
Additionally, in Belgium you have to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket or any other store. The result is a massive drop in the number of plastic bags (75 %) littering up our communities. Most shops don't even have plastic bags any more but have either a fashionable re-usable bag (which people continue to use hence it is free marketing) or a cardboard bag which can be recycled (or was already recycled). I never go to the supermarket without my re-usable (handy) bag and a lot of people do the same.
That was supposed to come in a few years ago, supermarkets weren't supposed to promote their plastic bags, but they all still do - suspect that's more a recessionary factor than anything else, where customers simply can't afford to buy a bag for life every time they go shopping (particularly if, like me, you leave it at home by accident every time you go to the shop!).
Quote from: BalDrick on November 23, 2011, 01:49:57 PM
Quote from: sipwell on November 23, 2011, 01:46:49 PM
Additionally, in Belgium you have to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket or any other store. The result is a massive drop in the number of plastic bags (75 %) littering up our communities. Most shops don't even have plastic bags any more but have either a fashionable re-usable bag (which people continue to use hence it is free marketing) or a cardboard bag which can be recycled (or was already recycled). I never go to the supermarket without my re-usable (handy) bag and a lot of people do the same.
That was supposed to come in a few years ago, supermarkets weren't supposed to promote their plastic bags, but they all still do - suspect that's more a recessionary factor than anything else, where customers simply can't afford to buy a bag for life every time they go shopping (particularly if, like me, you leave it at home by accident every time you go to the shop!).
No, your logic is wrong. The expected effect is that you will LEARN to take your bag with you to the supermarket. Moreover, the non-reusable bags aren't that expensive (10 eurocents for a small one and 50 eurocents for a big one). The strategy is to make people used to re-usable bags. Initially you got the bags for free and you got loyalty points each time you brought it to the originating shop. And as I said: great marketing for the companies involved. If I go to the market for instance I will always take my Delhaize bag with me (because it is big and handy), so I am basically a walking commercial for them. You use the bag for almost everything (my dirty football boots or hiking shoes for instance always travel in a Delhaize bag). You grow so accustomed to that useful bag that you never forget it any more.
Quote from: sipwell on November 23, 2011, 02:01:39 PM
Quote from: BalDrick on November 23, 2011, 01:49:57 PM
Quote from: sipwell on November 23, 2011, 01:46:49 PM
Additionally, in Belgium you have to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket or any other store. The result is a massive drop in the number of plastic bags (75 %) littering up our communities. Most shops don't even have plastic bags any more but have either a fashionable re-usable bag (which people continue to use hence it is free marketing) or a cardboard bag which can be recycled (or was already recycled). I never go to the supermarket without my re-usable (handy) bag and a lot of people do the same.
That was supposed to come in a few years ago, supermarkets weren't supposed to promote their plastic bags, but they all still do - suspect that's more a recessionary factor than anything else, where customers simply can't afford to buy a bag for life every time they go shopping (particularly if, like me, you leave it at home by accident every time you go to the shop!).
...If I go to the market for instance I will always take my Delhaize bag with me (because it is big and handy)...
Maybe there is a market for the Shefki Kuqi shopping tote? Recyclable? Yes. Big? Yes. Handy? Perhaps not.
Quote from: sipwell on November 23, 2011, 02:01:39 PM
Quote from: BalDrick on November 23, 2011, 01:49:57 PM
Quote from: sipwell on November 23, 2011, 01:46:49 PM
Additionally, in Belgium you have to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket or any other store. The result is a massive drop in the number of plastic bags (75 %) littering up our communities. Most shops don't even have plastic bags any more but have either a fashionable re-usable bag (which people continue to use hence it is free marketing) or a cardboard bag which can be recycled (or was already recycled). I never go to the supermarket without my re-usable (handy) bag and a lot of people do the same.
That was supposed to come in a few years ago, supermarkets weren't supposed to promote their plastic bags, but they all still do - suspect that's more a recessionary factor than anything else, where customers simply can't afford to buy a bag for life every time they go shopping (particularly if, like me, you leave it at home by accident every time you go to the shop!).
No, your logic is wrong. The expected effect is that you will LEARN to take your bag with you to the supermarket. Moreover, the non-reusable bags aren't that expensive (10 eurocents for a small one and 50 eurocents for a big one). The strategy is to make people used to re-usable bags. Initially you got the bags for free and you got loyalty points each time you brought it to the originating shop. And as I said: great marketing for the companies involved. If I go to the market for instance I will always take my Delhaize bag with me (because it is big and handy), so I am basically a walking commercial for them. You use the bag for almost everything (my dirty football boots or hiking shoes for instance always travel in a Delhaize bag). You grow so accustomed to that useful bag that you never forget it any more.
I understand, and in truth I only forget them once every 4 shops, but a few years ago I'm sure a law was passed that Tesco wasn't supposed to offer its plastic bags nor have them on show, but still have them available if needed, which lasted all of a week where I live. Now it's the same it ever was, huge piles of them on every checkout. I'd say over half of supermarket shoppers I see use reusable bags. We've got stacks here, including a few full of kindling for when the temperature drops.
I can't imagine ever walking around with a carrier bag in preparation for shopping. I go shopping on a whim, and rarely do a 'weekly' shop, so I generally pick up a new bag every visit.
I can't believe my first post on here is about recycling!
I only recycle paper and plastics because they only collect my main rubbish once a fortnight!! The bin is overflowing by then as it is, so I have to recycle the paper and plastics. I put all glass in with the main rubbish now because I don't think it will make the slightest bit of difference to the enviroment (and I can't be arsed to drive it to the recycling place).
In fact if my main rubbish was collected more frequently I wouldn't bother doing any of it. Total waste of time and money in my opinion
Used to recycle everything, but then they stopped collecting the purple small bins from flats and only take away the massive blue bins which can't be kept on site. Genius.
Quote from: Fulhamkev on November 23, 2011, 02:34:11 PM
I can't believe my first post on here is about recycling!
I only recycle paper and plastics because they only collect my main rubbish once a fortnight!! The bin is overflowing by then as it is, so I have to recycle the paper and plastics. I put all glass in with the main rubbish now because I don't think it will make the slightest bit of difference to the enviroment (and I can't be arsed to drive it to the recycling place).
In fact if my main rubbish was collected more frequently I wouldn't bother doing any of it. Total waste of time and money in my opinion
Welcome Fulhamkev! if you make one more post, your status of Michael Jackson will go away.
I'm on the fence re: recycling. I'll definitely recycle aluminum, and maybe the others if the apartment into which I've recently moved is providing for it. However, I'm really dubious about any benefits of recycling paper. What does everyone think of / has anyone seen this (strong language):
Recycling Is bullpoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTrJi9l3CM#)
I don't generate alot of trash, but I recycle as much as possible. We have a recycling center that takes almost everything and what they don't recycle you can pay them and they will dispose of it for you. They don't pickup, so I have to drive to town, but it's worth it for about a $1.00 a trip.
I find that so much is recyclable (roadside collection) that the landfill bin is only about half full (of mostly plastic) when it's collected fortnightly.
This is despite the fact that the County Council closed the local recycling centre in April so some stuff that we used to recycle now has to be disposed of in other ways. We used to be able to take plastic there but now it has to go in the bin and we now burn waste wood instead of recycling it. I even had to feed an old storage radiator out through the bin a couple of months ago. Metal would have been recycled and the bricks would have gone for hardcore.
Quote from: The Equalizer on November 23, 2011, 01:26:52 PM
I'm often amazed by certain boroughs which provide 4 different coloured boxes for recycling (which you have to find room to put, even if you're in a tiny 1 bed studio). Wandsworth Borough Council provides orange sacks, into which you place everything that can be recycled.
They then send these sacks off to Merton, where they are dropped off outside the houses of the less well-off for sorting into the relevant coloured boxes by the local residentia.
No they dont, like Hammersmith and Fulham, the orange bags all go to lotts rd Scumsea, where by bizarre coincedence the weighbridge bloke and a few workers are the Millwall fans me and my mates had a little run in with. I know this because i got moved on to recycling, and my weekly takings got hammered, as i couldn't do private jobs, and got finished a lot later. Paul Barry (Chelscum ) your bum licking may have got you promotion, but you know your always be licking your bosses arse :014:
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on November 24, 2011, 12:15:25 AM
Quote from: The Equalizer on November 23, 2011, 01:26:52 PM
I'm often amazed by certain boroughs which provide 4 different coloured boxes for recycling (which you have to find room to put, even if you're in a tiny 1 bed studio). Wandsworth Borough Council provides orange sacks, into which you place everything that can be recycled.
They then send these sacks off to Merton, where they are dropped off outside the houses of the less well-off for sorting into the relevant coloured boxes by the local residentia.
No they dont, like Hammersmith and Fulham, the orange bags all go to lotts rd Scumsea, where by bizarre coincedence the weighbridge bloke and a few workers are the Millwall fans me and my mates had a little run in with. I know this because i got moved on to recycling, and my weekly takings got hammered, as i couldn't do private jobs, and got finished a lot later. Paul Barry (Chelscum ) your bum licking may have got you promotion, but you know your always be licking your bosses arse :014:
Fred i recycle all my rubbish in a black bin bag and leave at the bottom of the flats every wednesday morning by thursday its gone...
As for the a hole licker what goes around mate comes around hopefully he falls in the cart....
Quote from: TheDaddy on November 24, 2011, 12:20:44 AM
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on November 24, 2011, 12:15:25 AM
Quote from: The Equalizer on November 23, 2011, 01:26:52 PM
I'm often amazed by certain boroughs which provide 4 different coloured boxes for recycling (which you have to find room to put, even if you're in a tiny 1 bed studio). Wandsworth Borough Council provides orange sacks, into which you place everything that can be recycled.
They then send these sacks off to Merton, where they are dropped off outside the houses of the less well-off for sorting into the relevant coloured boxes by the local residentia.
No they dont, like Hammersmith and Fulham, the orange bags all go to lotts rd Scumsea, where by bizarre coincedence the weighbridge bloke and a few workers are the Millwall fans me and my mates had a little run in with. I know this because i got moved on to recycling, and my weekly takings got hammered, as i couldn't do private jobs, and got finished a lot later. Paul Barry (Chelscum ) your bum licking may have got you promotion, but you know your always be licking your bosses arse :014:
Fred i recycle all my rubbish in a black bin bag and leave at the bottom of the flats every wednesday morning by thursday its gone...
As for the a hole licker what goes around mate comes around hopefully he falls in the cart....
I would recycle if i lived in a house, but i dont so everything goes straight down the chute. As for Paul Barry, the govner before him was a Fulham supporter, he told me i was always working an angle, but treated me ok, though i was no favorite. His Son Anthony is Fulham, and so are many binmen in the Borough. Oh Glorious binmen of Fulham rise up and over throw the evil Barry.
The situation over here is very much like what Sipwell described from Flandern.
Every apartment block has their own recycling station and we compost all left over (this is sent to local farms to be spread on their fields, and some is turned into bio-gas), all papers are recycled (glossy magazines, letters and other "treated" papers is burnt due to the chemicals), batteries are sent back to the factories (not sure what they do with them), cardboard is recycled separately, all metals goes in to one bin, all cans and bottles are brought back to the stores (as there is a system in place where you get money back when handing them in) etc.
Everything that is burned is taken to a local factory and they use the energy produced in their production.
I feel we do quite a lot in terms in recycling, but I'm sure we can do even more!
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on November 24, 2011, 12:50:04 AM
I would recycle if i lived in a house, but i dont so everything goes straight down the chute. As for Paul Barry, the govner before him was a Fulham supporter, he told me i was always working an angle, but treated me ok, though i was no favorite. His Son Anthony is Fulham, and so are many binmen in the Borough. Oh Glorious binmen of Fulham rise up and over throw the evil Barry.
Paul Barry? I wonder if this is the same Paul Barry I know - another Chelsea supporter. Looks a bit like Dr Bunsen Honeydew?
(http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/a/a4/Dr._bunsen_honeydew.jpg)
Quote from: Nick the Swede on November 24, 2011, 08:49:04 AM
The situation over here is very much like what Sipwell described from Flandern.
Every apartment block has their own recycling station and we compost all left over (this is sent to local farms to be spread on their fields, and some is turned into bio-gas), all papers are recycled (glossy magazines, letters and other "treated" papers is burnt due to the chemicals), batteries are sent back to the factories (not sure what they do with them), cardboard is recycled separately, all metals goes in to one bin, all cans and bottles are brought back to the stores (as there is a system in place where you get money back when handing them in) etc.
Everything that is burned is taken to a local factory and they use the energy produced in their production.
I feel we do quite a lot in terms in recycling, but I'm sure we can do even more!
Have to say, both yours and Sipwell's responses are very impressive.
I don't know any binmen by name so I'm not getting into the other conversation on this thread!
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on November 24, 2011, 12:50:04 AM
Quote from: TheDaddy on November 24, 2011, 12:20:44 AM
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on November 24, 2011, 12:15:25 AM
Quote from: The Equalizer on November 23, 2011, 01:26:52 PM
Wandsworth Borough Council provides orange sacks, into which you place everything that can be recycled. They then send these sacks off to Merton, where they are dropped off outside the houses of the less well-off for sorting into the relevant coloured boxes by the local residentia.
No they dont, like Hammersmith and Fulham, the orange bags all go to lotts rd Scumsea, where by bizarre coincedence the weighbridge bloke and a few workers are the Millwall fans me and my mates had a little run in with. I know this because i got moved on to recycling, and my weekly takings got hammered, as i couldn't do private jobs, and got finished a lot later. Paul Barry (Chelscum ) your bum licking may have got you promotion, but you know your always be licking your bosses arse :014:
As for the a hole licker what goes around mate comes around hopefully he falls in the cart....
I would recycle if i lived in a house, but i dont so everything goes straight down the chute. As for Paul Barry, the govner before him was a Fulham supporter, he told me i was always working an angle, but treated me ok, though i was no favorite. His Son Anthony is Fulham, and so are many binmen in the Borough. Oh Glorious binmen of Fulham rise up and over throw the evil Barry.
You should work this up into a novel or film script - seriously. :dft003:
Quote from: The Equalizer on November 24, 2011, 09:03:28 AM
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on November 24, 2011, 12:50:04 AM
I would recycle if i lived in a house, but i dont so everything goes straight down the chute. As for Paul Barry, the govner before him was a Fulham supporter, he told me i was always working an angle, but treated me ok, though i was no favorite. His Son Anthony is Fulham, and so are many binmen in the Borough. Oh Glorious binmen of Fulham rise up and over throw the evil Barry.
Paul Barry? I wonder if this is the same Paul Barry I know - another Chelsea supporter. Looks a bit like Dr Bunsen Honeydew?
(http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/a/a4/Dr._bunsen_honeydew.jpg)
Bald head yep, didn't wear glasses then , but might now. Was in the TA. Werewolf like chesthair sticking out the top of his teeshirt :020:
Quote from: The Bronsons on November 24, 2011, 11:13:16 AM
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on November 24, 2011, 12:50:04 AM
Quote from: TheDaddy on November 24, 2011, 12:20:44 AM
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on November 24, 2011, 12:15:25 AM
Quote from: The Equalizer on November 23, 2011, 01:26:52 PM
Wandsworth Borough Council provides orange sacks, into which you place everything that can be recycled. They then send these sacks off to Merton, where they are dropped off outside the houses of the less well-off for sorting into the relevant coloured boxes by the local residentia.
No they dont, like Hammersmith and Fulham, the orange bags all go to lotts rd Scumsea, where by bizarre coincedence the weighbridge bloke and a few workers are the Millwall fans me and my mates had a little run in with. I know this because i got moved on to recycling, and my weekly takings got hammered, as i couldn't do private jobs, and got finished a lot later. Paul Barry (Chelscum ) your bum licking may have got you promotion, but you know your always be licking your bosses arse :014:
As for the a hole licker what goes around mate comes around hopefully he falls in the cart....
I would recycle if i lived in a house, but i dont so everything goes straight down the chute. As for Paul Barry, the govner before him was a Fulham supporter, he told me i was always working an angle, but treated me ok, though i was no favorite. His Son Anthony is Fulham, and so are many binmen in the Borough. Oh Glorious binmen of Fulham rise up and over throw the evil Barry.
You should work this up into a novel or film script - seriously. :dft003:
Hmmm The Rise of the Zombie Binmen. Trained zombies that are only allowed to eat you if you put the wrong stuff in the wrong bin, it would certainly make the place more eco friendly.
HAHAHA! I've known Paul for years. He's best mates with my oldest mate's brother (who is a Fulham supporter). And yes, they were both in the TA together.
Rule two, the zombies are allowed to eat the numerous charming people who can see you chucking bags into the back of the cart, yet stand there with a dog on a lead whilst it pees all over the bags, real life binmen should be allowed to pull out the colnel and pee all over the dog owners. Fox and cat turd is anouther delight :035:
Quote from: The Equalizer on November 24, 2011, 11:29:33 AM
HAHAHA! I've known Paul for years. He's best mates with my oldest mate's brother (who is a Fulham supporter). And yes, they were both in the TA together.
I forgot his other distinguising feature, a brown tongue. Must admit he did catch me out once pretending to be Fulham Police on the phone after a Chelsea game. He was going to sack me for having six "bald" tyres on the truck, but by some strange coincedence i done my back in two days before the discplinerey meeting and was off sick for three months on full pay and three months on half :015: . You should have heard his voice when i rang up after 6 months and told him i'd be in work on monday, only to tell him not really . Tried to stop my pay, but i went in caused a scene, called him a few chioce words, and got my pay :028:
I own cartridge recycling companies so I do more than my share ;)
I recycle most things but get a bit fed up with having 4 seperate containers in a rather small kitchen to put it in
Here in Brighton, the Council collects paper, cardboard, glass, tins for recycling every fortnight using massive purpose built diesel lorries. It goes to a centre in Brighton where its sorted , some is recycled and some goes to an incinerator, sorry Energy from Waste plant in Newhaven.
I pay a co-op £1/week to collect my recycling once a week using old milk floats. They also collect plastic - a big bonus. I compost fruit and veg and teabags. The big problem facing most Councils is what to do with food waste. Some are going the anaerobic digestion route which produces gas that can be put into the grid or burned to generate electricity. Other councils are trying to get people to compost more but its difficult where there are lots of flats.
Household waste is a small % of the total waste stream - business and especially construction waste is a much bigger problem.
The Tories' plan to reward people to recycle more is pretty bonkers - and missed out the big issue of reducing the amount of waste in the first place. A bin tax on non-recycled waste is actually a good idea as Council's will be paying about £80/tonne to send stuff to landfill.
I was suprised watching a tv program that showed what happened to all the recycled plastic bottles, they are compressed, shipped to China where they are shredded down to a fine hair and spun into into clothing called polyurethane! Always thought they made new bottles !
Quote from: epsomraver on November 26, 2011, 11:09:32 AM
I was suprised watching a tv program that showed what happened to all the recycled plastic bottles, they are compressed, shipped to China where they are shredded down to a fine hair and spun into into clothing called polyurethane! Always thought they made new bottles !
Mr Epsom,
That explains why their suits look funny... :drums:
Here in the People's Republic of Elmbridge the council justify the high council tax by providing us with a wheely bin for reclycling paper, card, plastsics etc, a wheely bin for general waste that is not recyclable, a little dinky bin for food waste and a large green bag for garden waste. The first two get collected once every two weeks, the other stuff is weekly collection.
Apart from that, we have no coppers on the beat and loads of potholes
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Mostly my plastic water bottles, some cardboard packaging... I should do more. fp.gif
Quote from: epsomraver on November 26, 2011, 11:09:32 AM
I was suprised watching a tv program that showed what happened to all the recycled plastic bottles, they are compressed, shipped to China where they are shredded down to a fine hair and spun into into clothing called polyurethane! Always thought they made new bottles !
Its quite easy to buy fleeces in the UK made from recycled bottles - M+S sell them.
The Cleveland Show: Cleveland's "The More You Know" - Recycling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epc-FDW6Wb4#)