Pay as you throw - Page 4

SPUGGIE J · 28-05-2007, 21:29

Sorted out my recyclables last night and was wondering why the crud I bother. I stay on my own yet seem to have a hell of a lot of it to do. Need to have a big rethink.

WillowTheWhisp · 28-05-2007, 21:45

Why on earth can glass bottle be recycled but other glass has to go with the non-recyclable? Glass is glass isn't it? It all gets broken anyway.

magpie · 28-05-2007, 22:10

they take the empty ones back for the cash :-) you don't get cash on a flower vase....

Ianto.W. · 28-05-2007, 23:51

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Originally Posted by garinda

Seems you're right. Thank you.

Good job it was pointed out to me, even though it's there on the website, before I received a fine for bringing down the quality of the glass with my tins.

We are still putting tins in with the bottles, I'll ask 'Tommy' the dustman when they do our weekly pick-up on Wednesday morning, easier and cheaper than trying to get through to cleansing department, no one has complained about them yet.

davo69 · 29-05-2007, 05:41

they all get broken up and remade so there should not be a problem with any glass

Ianto.W. · 30-05-2007, 10:17

Got the official card through the door this morning, Blue Box is for Glass Only Thanks, and no spelling mistakes, turn over card, Please Only Place. Cans and plastic bottles in your Blue Sack. Glass in your Blue Box. Paper in your White Sack.Shoes and textiles in your Green Sack.Cardboard-stacked together and wedged between containers.
To ensure that your materials are collected, all items must be clearly identifiable and visible to collection crews.
Thank you for your co-operation.
If you have any queries please contact the Helpline on 01254 399988.
Please can I have a Green sack?

garinda · 03-06-2007, 12:39

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Originally Posted by garinda

Yesterday, for example, I had two plastic containers, one from a pack of bacon, and one which had strawberries in. I was unsure if I could put them in the blue plastic sack because it just states plastic bottles, so didn't, and they went in with the non-recycable rubbish. Is there a way we should be recycling plastic food containers, if so in what, and if not, why not?

Barry Keeling, UK sales manager for Centriforce, a Liverpool company that recycles plastic bottles, said: “It’s a misunderstanding as to what can be recycled in this country. Lots of local authorities want us to recycle all the plastics – your yoghurt pot, your butter dish and sandwich wrapping – and we can’t use those.”

‘Recycled’ waste dumped in landfill-Life & Style-Women-The Way We Live-TimesOnline

Much more information is needed about what can and can't be recycled. It's pointless if government targets are supposedly being met, if after all the trouble of sorting out our rubbish, it goes straight to landfill sites because it's contaminated, and thus can't be recycled.

Why can't we have clearer instructions on the council's website? It would be easy to keep updated about how, and what can be recycled.

It's only through this article in the Sunday Times that I now know not to put margarine cartons etc. in the plastic sack.