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10-09-2019, 02:49 PM
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Re: Where the plastic goes

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I keep saying that one week I will keep track of the time I spend sorting out the recycling bins. I mean as soon as it's collected I'm off again, washing plastic pots, folding up cardboard and ripping the plastic windows out of envelopes. Our dustmen are miserable buggers around here (I may have mentioned it a few times) but at least they get paid to do it. There's me sorting all this stuff out for bugger-all. Half of it is what the postman stuffs through my letter box and never even gets read.
They get paid as you rightly state Longdogs, not only that but in my case I am paying £40 a week into the Council coffers basically for just a quarter of one bin to be emptied weekly and having to sort the recycling too!

Council Tax is now my biggest weekly outgoing, it costs as much if not more than my food! Get all the recycling sorted countrywide and Council Tax might, just might go down from the rip-off levels it's now at!
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10-09-2019, 04:14 PM
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Re: Where the plastic goes

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they get paid as you rightly state longdogs, not only that but in my case i am paying £40 a week into the council coffers basically for just a quarter of one bin to be emptied weekly and having to sort the recycling too!

council tax is now my biggest weekly outgoing, it costs as much if not more than my food! Get all the recycling sorted countrywide and council tax might, just might go down from the rip-off levels it's now at!
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16-09-2019, 10:51 PM
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17-09-2019, 07:58 AM
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Re: Where the plastic goes

We have weekly collections - recycling alternating with household waste.

Household waste goes in one black wheelie bin - but it must all be wrapped. To this end I bought a roll of 'biodegradable' sacks to line my bin - they biodegraded before collection day - so the men would not empty my bin. Had to buy standard plastic sacks and repack everything ready for the next collection.

Recycling we have a green wheelie bin for garden rubbish, which is collected early by a separate vehicle, and three boxes for everything else - one for glass, one for plastic/tin and one for paper/card - all to be sorted by the householder. The vehicle that used to collect had three appropriate compartments. Then the new - huge - improved vehicles arrived! Now, 10 minutes before the vehicle is due, men come down the street pushing giant wheelie bins. The contents of the recycling boxes are ALL emptied into this one bin which is then hooked up and emptied into the collection vehicle.

Why then do we have to separate our recycling ? What a waste of time.
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26-09-2019, 09:34 AM
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Sorting out refuse is just one of the things that those out of work should be doing to get any Benefits providing only that they are capable of doing it.
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26-09-2019, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger ->
Sorting out refuse is just one of the things that those out of work should be doing to get any Benefits providing only that they are capable of doing it.
Good idea Todgy, third world countries allready do this but
the sorters dont get benefits they get proceeds!!

BRegards Donkeyman!
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LOL!!!
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27-09-2019, 07:49 PM
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Re: Where the plastic goes

Having seen something about erecting statues recently,
I was struck by an idea of killing rwo birds with one stone
by using recycled plastic to construct the statues?
Instead of using bronze or stone etc?
This would be considerably cheaper to do, as well as dispose
of large amounts of plastic rubbish, the larger the statue
the more plastic is disposed of? The statues would be long
lasting as we are told it lasts forever?? It would also use
less energy to produce as plastic has a lower melting point
than bronze etc, and could be colour fast as well and so
would only need hosing down to keep clean and would'nt
need specialist cleaning services in later years!
I am sure the elite people requiring a statue of themselves
or their relatives would have any objections to assist!ng in
helping the enviroment in this way??

Regards Donkeyman!
 
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