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Recycling...anything green?
Former Member
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I know this sounds daft but the other day I was confidently walking toward my green recycle bin with a piece of kitchen roll when I blew my nose into it, and then suddenly I was struck with doubt about its eligibility for this bin. any ideas?
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I work as an Environmental Manager, and have seen what happens to the paper waste. They dump it all into a big pulper and mash it up, bleach it and then recycle it.
Doubt a couple of boogers would throw much of a spanner in the works
I most certainly did
We now have 6 different bins/boxes for different stuff. Would be OK if we had a huge garden, but we've simply got nowhere to keep them.
Also they put you off having a big bin - if you have 6 people + living in your house, you can apply for a bigger dustbin. In order to keep this bigger bin each year, you have to give the NI numbers for all the adults living in the house, and the NHS numbers of all the children, just so you can prove you need a bigger bin!
They should reduce the size of the general waste bins as they increase the other recycling options.
when i was a kid ...your mum had numerous shopping bags that lasted years.
one for the unwashed veg ...two for the general shopping.
no plastics at all.
all bags were in the shops were paper.
but the oil and chemical companies would hate us to go back there ...
anyway there are 2 bins, 1 for paper, plastic, metal and card and another for everything else.
i was at the site the other day and the things out of the recycling bin that gets wasted is very minimal, its just a few things that the machines dont recognise as anything else.
the stuff out the normal bins gets insinerated. the heat used to burn it creates loads of electricity (i cant remember the figures) and it creates practically no polution at all (less than the damage caused by a 5min fire work desplay in a whole year)
i cant understand why the brits are so against incinoration its so much better than land fill
And nowhere to keep the green box.