Post by jonjel on Apr 9, 2013 15:50:45 GMT 1
I have not been around for a while but re-cycling is a complete con.
I am all for consuming less, and agree that the packaging that goes on for a new shirt for example is ridiculous. I accept that a TV set which might be shipped half way around the world needs to arrive undamaged, but why 4 apples are neatly arranged on an expanded polystyrene tray then covered in plastic is beyond me. To keep them fresh and undamaged is a load of bollocks.
I have a green bin, a black bin, a stout plastic sack for paper, another similar for cardboard and one for plastic bottles. I also have 2 food containers, one large one for outside and one small one for inside, and of course a big green box for bottles and tins. All of those are supplied to me free. Well at the expense of the council tax payers, which includes me.
An army of men come and collect the black bin and the plastic bottles one week and the large food bin, then the following week the green bin the paper the cardboard and bottles, and once again the food.
The amount of diesel and manpower all this takes beggars belief.
And the system is so bloody complicated that a lot (not me) can't be arsed and sling the lot in the black bin.
I don't know what happens to all this stuff. Black bin I think goes to landfill. As for the paper and cardboard I can't imagine that items like that left out in the rain for anything up to a fortnight are going to be much use for anything.
Simple solution. One bin. Everything is weighed and you pay by weight. Everything is then burned creating whatever power you can get out of it, and the residue goes to landfill. Fluid air system burn just about everything so it is not difficult.
I am all for consuming less, and agree that the packaging that goes on for a new shirt for example is ridiculous. I accept that a TV set which might be shipped half way around the world needs to arrive undamaged, but why 4 apples are neatly arranged on an expanded polystyrene tray then covered in plastic is beyond me. To keep them fresh and undamaged is a load of bollocks.
I have a green bin, a black bin, a stout plastic sack for paper, another similar for cardboard and one for plastic bottles. I also have 2 food containers, one large one for outside and one small one for inside, and of course a big green box for bottles and tins. All of those are supplied to me free. Well at the expense of the council tax payers, which includes me.
An army of men come and collect the black bin and the plastic bottles one week and the large food bin, then the following week the green bin the paper the cardboard and bottles, and once again the food.
The amount of diesel and manpower all this takes beggars belief.
And the system is so bloody complicated that a lot (not me) can't be arsed and sling the lot in the black bin.
I don't know what happens to all this stuff. Black bin I think goes to landfill. As for the paper and cardboard I can't imagine that items like that left out in the rain for anything up to a fortnight are going to be much use for anything.
Simple solution. One bin. Everything is weighed and you pay by weight. Everything is then burned creating whatever power you can get out of it, and the residue goes to landfill. Fluid air system burn just about everything so it is not difficult.