Re cycling

[Sweetpea]

We don't have a problem, we have a large garden and they are right down the bottom. But some, especially larger families most certainly do.

[Bruv]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

We don't have a problem, we have a large garden and they are right down the bottom. But some, especially larger families most certainly do.

You live out in the sticks.
What about the town dwellers, trying to keep vermin and flies away from heaps of festering rubbish right on your doorstep ?

[Sweetpea]

When I lived in a council flat, the stick and flies came up from the chute below. We used to be glad when someone torched it.

Originally Posted by Bruv2

And a thought struck me.......no seriously.....I do think......von?

DOUBTLESS. Just that we come to different conclusions on occasion.

All those cars arriving and off loading a couple of bottles.........
Have they costed the amount of enviromental damage all them cars cause opposed to the few bottles that get deposited ?

An argument I had with the "Green party" candidate here, last elections. O.K, so we seperate brown and white glass. This means

1) TWO bin wagons trundling around spewing out their filthy exhaust fumes.

2) It is doing people out of work. You could employ ten people at the depot to sort the bottles.

Originally Posted by Bruv2

I cannot believe they collect kitchen rubbish, decaying foodstuffs etc, fortnightly.
It is a major health hazard, firstly for vermin all year around, and in summer, smells and flies.
I understand on the continent they collect several times a week, which makes a lot of sense, smaller loads, mean smaller vans, better hygene, less fuel.

HEY, You think YOU have problems, be gratefull you do not live in Naples.

"See Naples and die....of typhoid, Cholera, dysentry, Beri beri, etc etc".

But in general yes.

We get ALL out five bins emptied twice per week in winter, and four times in summer.

BUT we have to pay the EXTRAVEGANT sum of €100 per year in council tax for that.

Bloody RIP OFF so it is.

Originally Posted by von Clausewitz

BUT we have to pay the EXTRAVEGANT sum of €100 per year in council tax for that.

Bloody RIP OFF so it is.

Now we know why Ken wasn't asked for advice on how to run a big city in Germany.

[Bruv]

BUT we have to pay the EXTRAVEGANT sum of €100 per year in council tax for that.

I would swop my Bill for that.....quadrupled....(Dont know what the term for 9 or 10 times should be)

Originally Posted by Bruv2

I would swop my Bill for that.....quadrupled....(Dont know what the term for 9 or 10 times should be)

Bruv, you would be welcome here.

But REALLY Britain NEEDS you, and those like you. HEL, if the U.K had 90% like the people on this site, YOU included, then the place would be STILL the best country on Earth.

[Bruv]

Originally Posted by von Clausewitz

Bruv, you would be welcome here.

But Hel......you are ALL Bloody foriegners.....god forbid

[Haqa]

Originally Posted by Bernie

Do you not recyle bottles at home? We have a box for the refuse men to collect

Our "refuse" to do it (heheheh).

Seriously though, my council's response to my complaint that the single most recyclable material ever made by man (glass) and the most recycled down through the ages, is not collected by Bracknell Forest Council - The council who's recycling officer chairs the national body responsible for advising councils on recycling, is that there are plenty of out-of-town supermarkets with glass banks... So that are actually ADVISING residents to harm the environment (if you believe the lie that man is affect the climate) in an effort to help the environment...

They supply a HUGE bin for plaky bottles, but only tiny little trays for paper and cardboard. We deliberately avoid plastic where possible due to the costs of recycling it and the fact that new products can generally only contain around 20% post-consumer material (otherwise it becomes brittle and unusable). Meanwhile we tend towards paper/card as it can contain as much as 100% post-consumer material with no detrimental effects on the end product (Did you know that the cup-holders at McDonnalds are 100% recycled paper/card?). So every fortnight we have two little trays overflowing with paper etc, for which we get into trouble (It's tantermount to littering), a bottle bin which is almost empty (For which we get into trouble - Not trying hard enough), and a waste bin which won't close (Animal waste and bedding is non-recycleable as it is a potential heath risk to the recyclers, and we rescue animals) for which we get into trouble. Who works for whom in this relationship????

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H.

[Bruv]

I have had another thought.....

Is it not beyond modern technology to collect everything together, off load it at a central point locally. And then with the use of machinery, seperate solids such as glass and metals, washing away solubles such as paper, shredding non solubles into burnable fuel pellets or something to fuel the process ?