Posted on 02/17/2011 2:56:45 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The research found that in Newcastle-under-Lyme, residents are asked to sort their waste into nine different bins and bags.
A further 20 councils provide seven bins for food waste, different recycling streams and other rubbish. More than 100 town halls ask residents to sort rubbish into 5 or more bins.
Residents in these areas say it is impossible to find room in the house for all the different bins and complain that the system is “too complicated and complex”.
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In Newcastle-under-Lyme Council, north Staffordshire, residents are asked to dump food waste in a silver slop bucket for food waste, which is then emptied into a larger, green outdoor bin every week. There is a pink bag for plastic bottles, a blue box for glass, foil, tins and aerosols, a green bag for cardboard, a white bag for textiles and blue bags for paper and magazines, which are all collected on alternate weeks with garden waste and black bin bags.
Sylvia Butler, 59, a retired teacher and former councillor in the area, said many residents are just dumping recycling in black bin bags rather than bothering to sort waste.
“It is too complicated and too complex,” she said. “Other areas have three containers, we have nine, it is just too confusing,” she said.
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“At a time when council budgets are already under extreme pressure, councils will not want to spend money on unnecessary bins so that they can meet recycling targets and avoid being hit by heavy European Union fines.....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
You need the rest to clear your mind.
Quite true, it’s been a long day. Thankfully I don’t have to deal with reading any kind of an explanation from you.
Why aren’t you sleeping?
When I was born, the doctor came to my house to deliver me.
My older brother has in his possession, two receipts totaling $25, that the same doctor charged for delivering him, my parents couldn’t afford that much all at one time.
I’m 65, brother is 73.
On the flip side of that coin, I have two brothers who died in infancy before I was born. It wasn’t that uncommon in those days.
No...I think he/she needs the Vikings Kitties called on them. It is obvious they are in the wrong place.
We sort our stuff too - we have about 6 different bins going but its all VOLUNTARY and saves us money because we get charged by the bag for garbage disposal.
The recyclables are not charged for where we live but the real garbage is.
We sort it into 1) burnables (like tissues, paper towels, non recyclable boxboard etc - we use them to start the woodstove), 2) deposit bottles, 3) recyclables - plastic, glass, cans 4) paper recyclables like newspaper and junk mail 5) compost - veg waste and egg shells and 6) true garbage.
It’s no big deal for us because we’ve got a system down that isn’t real onerous, but it confuses the holy heck out of visitors. We now just say “leave it on the table, we’ll throw it out for you” LOL.
We’re down to about 2 bags of genuine garbage a month, saves us a bunch of money.
LQ
They’ve already installed trash bin microchip sensors on 2.6 million British households...
Penn and Teller did a show about this. It was hilarious.
I can imagine!
It’s laughable.
More likely for the masseuse.
They’ve trained us like seals.
No one wants to make the first move
and get the “look” from the programed
masses.
But just let someone make a good,
common sense comment or do something
that confronts these socialist and the
light bulbs start to go on; people are
shaken out of their stupor.
LOL ROFL.
I thought that too, just as I hit the “post” button.
Great Penn and Teller take on recycling feel good BS.
Note: Language (nothing you haven't already heard though).
I bet he gets a great report card. Too bad he is so stupid.
STOUGHTON — About 100 Stoughton High School students walked out of class Monday morning to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to limit the collective bargaining of public employees, including teachers.
The students walked across the street to the parking lot of Stoughton United Methodist Church, where they signed a petition and listened to protest leaders give speeches.
“Let’s show Gov. Walker that we care about learning, and the teachers are worth every cent that we pay to them,” said Theron Luhn, a junior who helped organize the protest......
“???”
I get the impression that the Japanese are a very conformist culture. Using them as an example doesn’t always carry much weight.
I separate re-cyclables because it saves me money....let me explain.
I live alone in a semi-rural area. The county requires me to either sign up for trash pick-up or have an account at the transfer station. The pick-up will take ALL household waste, however it costs $30/mo. plus whatever the “fuel surcharge” happens to be at the time. I generate about 8-9 trashbags of waste/mo. including cardboard, newspapers, magazines, #1 and #2 plastic and cans. If I take it to the Xfer station myself, they charge me $1/trashbag. By separating out the recyclables mentioned above at home and putting them in the bins at the Xfer station, I reduce my load to 4 bags/mo. which I store in two covered garbage cans until they’re full. At that time I go to the station which is less than 6 miles from my house and takes me less than 2 miles out of my way when I go food shopping.
No social or environmental concerns at all.....only money.
Years ago (40 years) a city in the US started intensive recycling requiring people to separate colored glass from clear, plastic from paper, garbage in a separate container.
Everyone felt good about recycling. Then someone decided to see what the city was doing with the separated goods and followed the pick up trucks.
The city trucks took the separated trash to....the local land fill and dumped it all there, and covered it up.
But everyone FELT SO GOOD!
Hardly the same. Nobody’s garbage ever lost its brakes and slammed into an innocent bystander.
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