Big Brother in your Bin.

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You are trying to dispose of recyclable material in an inappropriate receptacle.
Click pay £10 to clear name from the name and shame register.[/big]

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[parrot of doom]

FFS, when are they going to start hitting on the real culprits? The supermarkets and suppliers that package produce unneccesarily?

How many times do you buy something, to pull it out of the bag, remove the shrink wrap, open the box, open the foil container, and only then use it?

[UKBob]

Tin cans are to be abolished, in favour of plastic cut open stay-fresh containers. This will save tin and lower prices, but the plastic is non recyclable.

Im with Parrot, the supermarkets and product manufacturers should be tageted.

[cotty]

parrot of doom said:

How many times do you buy something, to pull it out of the bag, remove the shrink wrap, open the box, open the foil container, and only then use it?

Sometimes if I do a big food shop I can fill half a bin bag with excess packaging

[BliarOut]

I smell the scent of sabotage if my council ever try this

No councillor, I have no idea why my house seems to suffer strange electrical surges

[ge2]

I thought this was going to be a thread about recreating a well known reality TV show in miniture with a wastepaper basket and insects and/or small animals

[simpo two]

It's all thanks to the EU. Otherwise we could use landfill. But no, the EU fines the Govt, the Govt fines the Councils, the Councils fine us...

Have you noticed how common the word 'fine' is these days? It's control by money.

[scorp]

simpo two said:

It's all thanks to the EU. Otherwise we could use landfill. But no, the EU fines the Govt, the Govt fines the Councils, the Councils fine us... Have you noticed how common the word 'fine' is these days? It's control by money.

We can't forever use landfills unfortunately, otherwise we will eventually run out of land to fill.

I see what your saying about this 'fining culture' we have found ourselves in.

[rsvmilly]

I'm just impressed that they managed to use the phrase "hearts and minds" in an article about bins.

[mcflurry]

In early 1980s Germany they recycled. We are 20 years behind. What had to be incinerated supplied heating for the roads in winter (so didn't ice up) and public swimming pools in summer...

[CraigAlsop]

scorp said:

We can't forever use landfills unfortunately, otherwise we will eventually run out of land to fill.

That's not really true though is it - you can always pile stuff higher or extend our coastline. I think the waste of energy & resources is a bigger issue than running out of landfill sites - it's surely better to recycle something than spend more energy (which could be used driving fast cars ) building a new thing from raw materials.

[Mr Whippy]

I'd happily recycle more, but they only get the green bin once a bloody month, and I'm not driving my inefficient car 5 miles to Sainsburys ever week to drop off the stuff, as my car will probably get rammed, and also, short pointless journeys are inefficient!

I'd prefer 5 smaller bins, and a free composter for organic waste. One for organic (composter), one for glass, one for plastic containers, one for plastic bags and wrapping, one for papers and magazines and cardboard, and one for tins.

But no, one average sized green one that is full in a few weeks then the rest goes in the normal one

Everyone on my street is the same, green ones out tonight, and they are all full or overflowing...

Dave

[polarbert]

its either the germans or the french, but whenever they shop, say they buy toothpaste or cereal, they take the item out of its box, and put the box in a bin at the supermarket

[Pigeon]

Yeah! Then the supermarkets should be able to truck it back to the manufacturers (at their expense) and say "you lumbered us with this useless crap, now you get rid of it". That'd get them to sort it out...

[Trooper2]

OMG........If they ever try to invade your loo, promise me that you will flush them.

I hope that recycling isn't as expensive in the U.K., as it is here but I suspect it's more so.

[Don]

As an aside:

I have found that by having a completely seperate indoor recycling bin the amount of stuff we put in our green outdoor recycling bin has increased tenfold. Its at least half and half with plain old rubbish.

Importantly: Our recycling lot do the sorting for us - you don't need to put tins/plastic bottles/cardboard in different bins or anything - which is so inconvenient it puts people off...

[hustlebabe]

Me...? I get totally lost on the recycling issue although i've always campaigned for it.

Every damn different council has it's own policy, collection arrangements, rules what they will take and how they will take it!
Totally ps me off!

[jonna]

Use your neighbours bin

[hustlebabe]

I do! You have been watchin' me

[MrsRotty]

We've got a reasonable recycling scheme. They WILL take paper, glass, tins, car batteries, clothes, and shoes once a week. BUT, they won't take cardboard, or plastic bottles...we're a family of 4 and as a consequence have loads of plastic milk and fizzy bottles which we still have to haul down to the tip. Mind you, we also have a lockable 'food waste' bin which they empty once a week. Every 2 weeks our black bags are taken - each household can leave 4 out. Any more than that and they won't take them!


BTW, my parents are in S Norfolk and they haven't mentioned this yet...