Recycle your stuff? (poll)

[sierrabravo]

Here's a poll, my first (I think)
Are you nuts about recycling, or do you just say "Fuck it, I'm too lazy?"
Personally, I go thru everything to recycle, two bins full every week

 

[JosephGabriel]

In most areas in the UK now, the government have decided that rubbish destined for landfill should only be collected fortnightly rather than weekly.

Thus forcing people to either recycle or dispose of anything they can't fit in one bin to a landfill site and pay to get rid of it.

So lots of people now have little option but to recycle at least the obvious stuff; glass, plastic and tins.

 

[sierrabravo]

In most areas in the UK now, the government have decided that rubbish destined for landfill should only be collected fortnightly rather than weekly.

forgive me for being a naive bounty hunter, but fortnightly is two weeks, right? We don't use that word out here on the Outer Rim Territories. lol
anyway, that is a good idea to do here in usa, cuz on thursdays (recycle day) the only ones on my street (out of 10 houses) that recycle is me all the time. Other people do probably when they might have a can or bottle happening to be in their hand if they ever happen to pass that blue bin... lazy fucks...

 

[Jersey]

Well, when I lived in Jersey it was mandatory that you recycled. Here in the South they don't make you do it.. so I'm slacked off

 

[BlackCherry]

They gave us a recycling bin when I moved into my house...and it's twice a month. Why not it can't hurt!

 

[JosephGabriel]

Yeah, once every two weeks.

In the summer months there's a bin for garden waste (green waste only) that is collected on the alternate week.

The standard bin provided to households is a 240litre bin. It is estimated that a 240 litre bin can hold 1 week's worth of waste for a family of four. But if it's only collected once every 2 weeks, that means you must recycle at least half of your household waste.

Also, if you put any extra rubbish out such as bags at the side of the bin, then they wont take it away.

Here's a graph from DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Looks promising, I must say!

 

[sierrabravo]

looks like its gettin better. in the usa i think its along your lines of 1993's bar...

 

[wednesday]

Yes i have 2 recycle bins for cardboard and tins..
And a sack for plastic....

It doesnt make any extra chores and think everyone should be doing it!!!

 

[JosephGabriel]

The U.S. is much bigger though so will take much longer to change.

Also, I feel life in the U.S. has much of a faster pace...maybe I'm wrong. But recycling takes time. That's the main issue for lots of people I think.

Changing habbits of a lifetime is hard!

 

[wednesday]

It doesnt take time here in england...our council has made the effort to get up off there asses and collect all recycled rubbish.

 

[JosephGabriel]

Agreed Wednesday...still lots of work to do though.

I think a massive problem with waste is because of excess packaging.

E.g. a cucumber has skin....so why wrap it in film?

Microwave meals make me scream! It just annoys me how much packaging they have for such small portions. Things are getting better though....hopefully people will start to realise how much of an impact waste has on the world!

Only a quarter of our waste in the UK though comes from households and business.

We need to get industrial and other waste down as that accounts for 75%!

 

[wednesday]

Oh yer totally....i must admit i only realized how much packaging there was when i started to recycle...and your right, mst of it is sooo unnecessary...like orange juice cartons...thy wont recycle them as they are made of different materials in...why not just put it glass or plastic so we CAN recycle

 

[skyblue]

i recycle...i even make my own compost for the garden

 

[wednesday]

i recycle...i even make my own compost for the garden

:24::24::24::24::surrenderOmg Ian i got visions of you turding on the lawn:24:

 

[skyblue]

:24::24::24::24::surrenderOmg Ian i got visions of you turding on the lawn:24:

horse turd maybe
:nod:

 

[skyblue]

you can put most green matter in a composter.......except too much grass or potato peelings

 

[Tattva]

I used to at home, The Council limited the levels of landfill waste we could produce
Since being at uni, no such restrictions and nowhere to re-cycle even if we wanted too. Everything goes in the bin

 

[The Joker]

It's not mandatory here. I've just been brought up knowing that Cardboards, Cartons, and recyclables like that go in the yellow bin, and all the other shit, the green.

 

[sierrabravo]

The U.S. is much bigger though so will take much longer to change.

Also, I feel life in the U.S. has much of a faster pace...maybe I'm wrong. But recycling takes time. That's the main issue for lots of people I think.

Changing habbits of a lifetime is hard!

I don't really think its much of a problem of "life habits" but more along the lines of "you're going to jail and/or fined if you don't recycle." Us Americans like their money and free time. I'm positive that they would recycle if you threatened them with jail time and/or heavy fines...

:surrender<<< recycled underwear!

 

[JosephGabriel]

Yeah but if we start throwing people in jail for not recycling then I think we'd have bigger problems than landfill. Fines...fair enough....heavy fines. But I don't agree with prison.