Recycling

[Misawa]

We recycle, but the fact is the majority of it still goes to landfill.

[Catzsy]

We recycle, but the fact is the majority of it still goes to landfill.

Even the recycled material in your area goes to landfill?

[Storking]

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

[Misawa]

I saw a documentary on it. The majority of rubbish in the UK that's supposed to be recycled goes to landfill anyway.

[Martin]

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.

[Catzsy]

I saw a documentary on it. The majority of rubbish in the UK that's supposed to be recycled goes to landfill anyway.

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.

[-:Undertaker:-]

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.

[Black_Apalachi]

You know you're in Liverpool when you see the purple bins, Dan

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.

[Anarchist]

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.

[Black_Apalachi]

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?!

When I was living away at uni, we also had no bins and had to just leave black bags out. It was soooo messy.