Household waste recycling

Just thougth maybe we need to bring taking bottles back to the shops and get about 10p on a can all bottle I see it work in finland there would not be so much rubish on the road because chirlden know there get some cash back is help finland roads

See if you saved all your tin cans , bottles , cardboard and recycle plastics you could
Pay your council tax with it

Thank u people's voice u got it spot on they make millions of £ from us it's amazing how India and third world country's recycle everything it is your fault for letting them do it to you
See here why clean tin cans and bottles when they all will end up huuuuuge fire . So ask your self who is the (biggest F ) U are

I am all for recycling, but I resent paying my council tax and then have to spend a lot of my precious time sorting it into seperate bags. I suggest that instead of " comunity service " these offenders should be made sort out the items for recycling, in other words the general public put anything to be recycled into one container, then these offenders start work from 8-00 am until 4-30 pm daily including weekends sorting items for recycling. This then makes them get up earlly each morning and stops them being out late at night and re-offending. It also may give them the mindset that if they have to do this then they might as well get a proper job and hey suddenly they are getting back on course.

I would double check your facts. Recycling is not as difficult as you are making it sound. When cleaning for food contamination, just pop the recyclables in the washing machine along with your dishes. This is easier and better for the environment than washing by hand.

Depending on the recycling services provided in your city, yes, some recyclables may not be taken. But all it takes is one phone call to find out what is recyclable. Perhaps you should make a list of what can be recycled so you will not damn the initiative so quickly when you forget.

And in some places, the recycling services offered do not come to your home so you have to drive to do it yourself. (We do this in my home and without complaints.) be happy that you have a bin.

My biggest complaint to you and many other people like you regards your laziness. You could prevent a ton of carbon from entering our atmosphere just by taking an extra 10 minutes a day to clean your recycling. I think easy to you means that there will be someone to do it all for you. You could also work to improve the recycling services offered in your area by writing a letter to your local representative. If the services are inadequate, do something about it. People who say things are too hard and do nothing leave only a dirty imprint on the world, and for more reasons than just pollution.

In my local area in the Midlands we do no recycle cardboard or tins. You take the bottles to the bank at a Tesco. Failing that they go in the bin liner.

Garden cuttings and paper is all that we recycle. There is a refuse site but it's 18 miles one way. No one is going to drive there so, all cardboard and tins are thrown in the black bin liner into the bin itself.

This is a good system and very easy.

Well said Simmy,
These types of messages need to hit home with the local authorities as them achieving joined up thinking, and having a basic understanding of how people work, might make a big difference to the environment.

Quite true, quite true. I live in Canada and currently my once spotlessly beautiful street is now being defaced as the damn garbage men only pick up certain things and if you put something that is not on their list, woe betide as not only will they not pick it up, but it seems they toss it onto the street! I personally have seen them do this on numerous occasions and most of the time they just toss the entire bin off the truck and let it roll down the street. Often I wish to run out, sneak aboard their truck and cut off their air supply. It is absolutely disgusting to see newspapers, candy wrappers, huge rotting cardboard and even the occasional bag of cat litter washed up on our lawns. It's funny that those who are supposed to keep our street clean have switched sides and decided to deface it instead. Simmy276, I completely agree with what you are doing and I may be the most environmentally aware person in my school!

Totally agree. Our council will not collect cardboard from our doorstep, but they do accept it at the recycling centre (unless you are in West Somerset where they will collect it). Apart from the increasingly time consuming operation of sorting it, how is it "carbon-sound" to be driving around taking the cardboard to the centre (which is a 6 mile round trip (is it appx 100g of carbon/mile?)multiplied by all the people bothering)

you are an a*** hole who wants to destroy the environment
lazy sod

I am sorry that this has happened to you--but you are committed to the environment and not your problems with some entity that is trying to discourage you. Right? So try googling your local recycling bins so you can take your bags yourself when you run an errand--many of these are less picky and have a different sorting system. In my area we take ours for free and all the plastic,glass and aluminum are together and all paper, cardboard are in another bin. If you have truly given up--at least try to take cloth bags when you shop, refuse extra packaging, eat fresh so that you have less packaging and start a compost area or bin to recycle scraps. Try to reuse and reduce to relieve your recycling frustrations. Good luck!

and yes, I'm aware that there is are conflicting statements below

'all for recycling'
'not going to save the planet'

Recycling stops rubbish being a blot on the landscape - recycling will not save the world.