We recycle, but the fact is the majority of it still goes to landfill.
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We recycle, but the fact is the majority of it still goes to landfill.
Even the recycled material in your area goes to landfill?Quote:
Originally Posted by Misawa
Yeah, we have recycling bins but most kids around here tend to find stealing them hilarious.
Or using the lids as sleds in the winter :)
I saw a documentary on it. The majority of rubbish in the UK that's supposed to be recycled goes to landfill anyway.
Mhmm we have purple and white bags, it's so annoying to have to sort stuff out and make sure it's clean etc. Although I guess it's doing a good job for te environment somehow. I normally take a trip to the skip (which has a recycling facillity) once a month and take a load of glass bottles, and other stuff which cant be recycled via the council.
But yeah at the moment it's just paper/cardboard and plastic that we have to put in the bags I think. Would be useful if there were more options here like it sounds other councils have. :D
I seriously don't think this is true now - there would be a public outrage. It may have been a couple of years ago but I know where our rubbish is recycled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Misawa
I support recycling but not over-excessive recycling, ours is pretty fine but sadly the bin collection services that we pay our taxes for have been elongated from which I gather is thanks to European Union regulations meaning the bins stink and we still end up paying the same council taxes (higher every year) for less of a service that was there before. To add to that, the sight of bins everywhere is very unattractive (especially as Liverpool Council went and chose luminous purple). I hear they are introducing slop-buckets fairly soon which is a step too far - its almost rocket science now sifting through what goes where and for those with small gardens it must be a nightmare trying to find room to fit these numerous bins.
You know you're in Liverpool when you see the purple bins, Dan :P
We just have the two; green for general rubbish and grey for recycling and garden waste I think. To be honest, as each bin only gets collected fortnightly, if you miss a week everything ends up in one or other of the bins anyway and nobody seems to check.
No bins here whatsoever. we have to use these huge sacks, and when the recycling person comes, he'll pay us depending on how much the sack ways.
I don't really think the government puts a lot into recycling anyway. So independent scrappers have to come.
Wait, you get paid for your rubbish?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Anarchist
When I was living away at uni, we also had no bins and had to just leave black bags out. It was soooo messy.