recycle your teabags hyndburn - Page 3

maccy · 13-03-2007, 09:47

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Originally Posted by chav1

back to teabags

has anyone ever noticed that if you throw a used teabag out into the street in cold weather it looks like a steaming turd

ha ha pmsl

Neil · 13-03-2007, 10:31

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Well I actually think it's a good idea.

I am starting to get worried about you Gayle.
This is not the first time you have agreed with Peter on here recently.
I also read in the Observer that Brian Walmsley is due for re-election in May and has not yet decided if he will stand due to his recent health problems.

Is this just a coincidence or have you put all your red clothes in the recycling sack and filled your wardrobe with new blue ones instead?

Neil · 13-03-2007, 10:38

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Council leader Peter Britcliffe said: "I think it is really important that we, as a council, set an example to the people in the borough about the importance of recycling.

"If this is a success I hope eventually we can go out to other offices and businesses in the area and show them what we have done, and how we made it work."

This is a good point that Peter makes in the Telegraph and I agree totally that they should show a good example. I have heard a few people on here comment about the contents of rubbish bins all going into landfill etc etc, maybe this will be the next thing they change.

Too many businesses do not recycle. Where I work we don't even recycle paper. We do separate scrap wood and metal but that is only because the waste collection company insist on it IIRC.

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Opposition Labour group leader Coun Graham Jones said: "We have called for drastic action on reducing waste and we welcome this move, but telling people to take home tea bags in their pockets, or handbags, is just daft."

It may be daft Graham but why not suggest some other way of collecting them instead, maybe the Parks Dept could compost them.

lettie · 13-03-2007, 11:32

Hehehe.... I watched this on Granada Reports last night. Yes, teabags can be used for composting but I agree with Neil that maybe they can have a collection area within the council offices and the used teabags be given to the parks dept. I do think it is ludicrous to take them home in your pocket.

The reporter went on to say that if there are 200 employees having 2 cups of tea per day, that is an awful lot of teabags. I find it hard to believe that these employees find time for 2 cups of tea per day whilst at work... they obviously don't work for the NHS maternity services then..

Neil · 13-03-2007, 11:35

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Originally Posted by lettie

The reporter went on to say that if there are 200 employees having 2 cups of tea per day, that is an awful lot of teabags.

Do none of them drink coffee?

Maybe they should ban tea, glass coffee jars are easy to recycle.

SPUGGIE J · 13-03-2007, 12:38

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Originally Posted by Neil

Do none of them drink coffee?

Maybe they should ban tea, glass coffee jars are easy to recycle.

They are spaced out enough without supping coffee.

cherokee · 13-03-2007, 15:27

well i wouldnt fancy going home with my pocket/bag fill with fruit peelings / teabags etc... whats wrong with the council providing these bins ..after all it is thier idea...

chav1 · 13-03-2007, 15:39

if coucilors were locked up in stocks once a month and peopel allowed to throw rotten veg and peelings etc at them they could sweep up all the mess afterwards and take it away

sort of a collection point with incentive if you will

panther · 13-03-2007, 16:58

i tell you that PB

takes the biscuit..i bet he aint taking is bloody teabags home!

im sure he just likes the attention, hes always in the observer!
i remember when he was a teacher at moorend talked rubbish then

the best thing for the workers would be to use tealeafs!!

g jones · 13-03-2007, 17:13

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Originally Posted by Neil

It may be daft Graham but why not suggest some other way of collecting them instead, maybe the Parks Dept could compost them.

Hi Neil.

On the scale of things there are much bigger issues we should be looking at. It has been mentioned on here before, we don't recycle our trade waste colection which amounts to 8-9% of waste. There are many important things we don't do which I am sure Neil, you are aware of as I am.

None the less, it did raise awareness but unfortunately it has backfired into a joke piece about Accrington. (Granada Reports 'lets have a laugh section' at the end.) PB used the phrase "a storm in a Tea Bag". I think there is time for a laugh, I am not sure this was it.

flashy · 13-03-2007, 18:03

hmmm a politician who can't spell

WillowTheWhisp · 13-03-2007, 18:27

What about the council workers who don't have compost bins?

Neil · 13-03-2007, 18:40

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Originally Posted by g jones

None the less, it did raise awareness but unfortunately it has backfired into a joke piece about Accrington.

Your right it did. The idea was ok but maybe the approach was not.
I am all for recycling but I am not convinced that everything we recycle is actually for the good of the environment and not just so we can say we recycle xx% each month.

SPUGGIE J · 13-03-2007, 20:05

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Originally Posted by chav1

if coucilors were locked up in stocks once a month and peopel allowed to throw rotten veg and peelings etc at them they could sweep up all the mess afterwards and take it away

sort of a collection point with incentive if you will

Will the stocks at Huncoat do for this Chav???

aromalady · 13-03-2007, 23:21

can,t believe hyndburn council on t-bag issue, where do they think the bags will end up when so called do gooders take them home.....in the bin, now that really makes sense (sarcasm) seeing has most of the staff will probably live in hyndburn, just another way of making them look good only backfired as usual aroma lady