Recycling changes...

staffordjas

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With all our 5 houses bins at the top of the driveways together , one of the recycling lads grabs all the bags while the others do the bins. But then just comes back with the empty bags , putting one in each bin but quite often not the correct ones. I've often found someone elses blue bag back inside mine, but they haven't emptied all of it completely and there's bits of amazon boxes etc fell out into the bottom of my blue bin.

One of the neighbours had put polystyrene in their blue bin last time, and rather than reject the whole bin they at least took it out , then put the emptied bin wheels back on to the polystyrene to save it blowing away. Depends which crew comes around , others would have put an 'Ooops' tag on and left it.
Where son lives they just bung anything into theirs and the recycling blokes don't even look inside. They don't have seperate caddys for paper and cardboard either. The whole lot goes into the bin together , including ok to put things in plastic bags .

My blue bag is already full and a week to go yet. Cut all the cardboard up flat and stacked the wine holder trays to make smaller, but still going to struggle to get much more squashed in. That's where I miss the recycling skips up at Wildwood Co-op !
 

Steve_b

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Recycling with Roots / Tranquility
Newport Road Stafford
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Staffordshire Recycling

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324267582233026

Roots Larder

https://www.facebook.com/rootslarder

Tranquility

https://www.facebook.com/tranquilitystafford
 

SketchyMagpie

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Thanks Steve_b. I've only recently learned of that place (Tranquility) and would like to use it. Is there somebody there or do you just turn up and dump your stuff in the relevant bins?
 

Steve_b

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Thanks Steve_b. I've only recently learned of that place (Tranquility) and would like to use it. Is there somebody there or do you just turn up and dump your stuff in the relevant bins?
You can just drop it off, the sheds probably locked out of hours when Nigel (Roots) and Justine (Tranquility) are closed. But do pop into Roots and Tranquility while your there.
See what’s on offer...

Roots Larder. https://www.facebook.com/rootslarder

Tranquility. https://www.facebook.com/tranquilitystafford
 

c0tt0nt0p

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It's very much US focused but this is an excellent watch and a lot of it translates to the UK recycling scene...

 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Brown bin possibly to be reinstated for free, along with having 7 bins overall under new proposals to uniform the current waste management schemes across the country and councils.

Under the new proposals, you'd get separate bins for glass, metal, plastic, paper and card, food waste, garden waste, and non recycled general waste.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/new...8XAWTutLPW50Mu0WTgCQS6wVWLIQYSjgJ3Uh0GKElUOT4
And how much damage to the environment will the manufacture of all these extra bins cause? Way more than the dubious environmental benefits of separating everything into all those different bins, I'll wager.

It's the Petit Fonctionaire mindset of a place for everything and everything in its place.
 

Steve_b

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Brown bin possibly to be reinstated for free, along with having 7 bins overall under new proposals to uniform the current waste management schemes across the country and councils.

Under the new proposals, you'd get separate bins for glass, metal, plastic, paper and card, food waste, garden waste, and non recycled general waste.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/new...8XAWTutLPW50Mu0WTgCQS6wVWLIQYSjgJ3Uh0GKElUOT4


The extra collection vehicles could also cause congestion on the road, as well as costing £680million every year, says the DCN. Please, please just stop this nonsense, look at the stupid cardboard caddy, and empty blue bins. Councils need to make better recycling facilities to sort the rubbish, not expect home owners to store 7 bins.

The council report that contaminated cardboard has reduced from 15% to 8% since the introduction of the bag, Was the cost of these bags really worth 7%?
 
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tek-monkey

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I guess the idea is we do all the sorting so they just collect and throw in the right hole? Works in other countries, but they collect much more frequently.
 

littleme

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Brown bin possibly to be reinstated for free, along with having 7 bins overall under new proposals to uniform the current waste management schemes across the country and councils.

Under the new proposals, you'd get separate bins for glass, metal, plastic, paper and card, food waste, garden waste, and non recycled general waste.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/new...8XAWTutLPW50Mu0WTgCQS6wVWLIQYSjgJ3Uh0GKElUOT4
Bugger, I've only just paid fir the brown bin too, and it has a massive split in it, I was hoping they would realise when they collected it and give me a new one!
 

gilbert grape

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Just imagine if we had packaging regulations that meant there were only a select number of types of packaging and they could all be recycled.
I know this isn't falling in line with deep science but it would save the planet a load of grief!
This link epitomises the problems we have. Using material that is not recyclable and also gives off poisonous gas if incinerated is why there's so much of it lying about!
Recycling - The Problem with Plastic | Young People's Trust For the Environment (ypte.org.uk)
 

Gramaisc

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Just imagine if we had packaging regulations that meant there were only a select number of types of packaging and they could all be recycled.
I know this isn't falling in line with deep science but it would save the planet a load of grief!
This link epitomises the problems we have. Using material that is not recyclable and also gives off poisonous gas if incinerated is why there's so much of it lying about!
Recycling - The Problem with Plastic | Young People's Trust For the Environment (ypte.org.uk)
And a lot of stuff could be reused directly, rather than the material being recycled.

There is no need for every bottle or jar to be a different shape from everybody else's - etc.
 

tek-monkey

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And a lot of stuff could be reused directly, rather than the material being recycled.

There is no need for every bottle or jar to be a different shape from everybody else's - etc.
Was thinking of this in the supermarket the other day (as you do). In the meat section every fridge is rammed with ever so slightly different shaped packaging to best show off the item inside, where nearly half the available space is wasted. It's scary that we are more concerned with being able to check if the chicken breast we are buying looks prettier than the one next to it than we are with saving the planet.
 

Gramaisc

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Was thinking of this in the supermarket the other day (as you do). In the meat section every fridge is rammed with ever so slightly different shaped packaging to best show off the item inside, where nearly half the available space is wasted. It's scary that we are more concerned with being able to check if the chicken breast we are buying looks prettier than the one next to it than we are with saving the planet.
Whilst checking breasts for prettiness is quite important, it really the glass containers that annoy me - there could be a few standard sizes and shapes that could easily be reused by anybody - as there used to be, years ago - not using stupid amounts* of energy to melt it all down and reform it into other unreusable shapes.


* pretty much equivalent to the amount used to make it the first time.
 

BobClay

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As long as the standard jar isn't a Marmite Jar. Now we all know everybody needs at least 10 jars of Marmite in the house, in case there's an apocalypse or something. But they don't store with space saving in mind. :P
 

joshua

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As long as the standard jar isn't a Marmite Jar. Now we all know everybody needs at least 10 jars of Marmite in the house, in case there's an apocalypse or something. But they don't store with space saving in mind. :P

So the two things that will survive the apocalypse are cockroaches and marmite, to be honest seeing a nuclear detonation from the inside seems almost attractive
 
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