Recycling!
3rd May, 2006 - (Tuesday)
Okay we survived, and it was seriously tasty. But you didn't come here to read about the casserole did you now, you wanted to know all about the rubbish.
Well it's a rant. Our council put us on a project with a blue wheelie bin. We've had it while, and it was for paper and cardboard first of all, then it allowed you to put in plastic bags, and then... plastic bottles and recyclable plastics pet 1 and hdpe 2? And tins!
Well, this month the council has expanded the project to the whole area and guess what? We're back to putting just cardboard and paper in the blue bin!
Now they've got us hooked and deligently washing all our rubbish we've nowhere to turn to. So, we separate our bits and bobs, see there's so many recycle symbols on all that packaging... and we take it to the local tip. Hubby found a queue outside so he decided to come back later, with me. We have all our plastic bottles with us but the two small containers they have are stuffed full. The attendant when asked about the dilemma says, "just throw it in the household rubbish" ie don't bother recycling. We weren't about to do this but did have some stuff you can't recycle to put into the household waste skips. Beside them sit two huge containers, and I mean room size nearly, for get this, recycling your tyres ... and in the tyre buckets ... sit six, solitary tyres.
Why? Why do they do this too you?
Okay we survived, and it was seriously tasty. But you didn't come here to read about the casserole did you now, you wanted to know all about the rubbish.
Well it's a rant. Our council put us on a project with a blue wheelie bin. We've had it while, and it was for paper and cardboard first of all, then it allowed you to put in plastic bags, and then... plastic bottles and recyclable plastics pet 1 and hdpe 2? And tins!
Well, this month the council has expanded the project to the whole area and guess what? We're back to putting just cardboard and paper in the blue bin!
Now they've got us hooked and deligently washing all our rubbish we've nowhere to turn to. So, we separate our bits and bobs, see there's so many recycle symbols on all that packaging... and we take it to the local tip. Hubby found a queue outside so he decided to come back later, with me. We have all our plastic bottles with us but the two small containers they have are stuffed full. The attendant when asked about the dilemma says, "just throw it in the household rubbish" ie don't bother recycling. We weren't about to do this but did have some stuff you can't recycle to put into the household waste skips. Beside them sit two huge containers, and I mean room size nearly, for get this, recycling your tyres ... and in the tyre buckets ... sit six, solitary tyres.
Why? Why do they do this too you?
posted by CJ at 6:09 pm
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Hey CJ, askar from the .net forums here. So you've joined the blogsphere at last! I'll keep reading, although I'm waiting for the edit-me links to be removed!
Hi askar,
I'm not sure what the edit-me links are for ... heh heh. I must read that other book I got out from the library "Sams Teach Yourself Blogging in a Snap" :-)
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you can change the edit-me links through settings > template. it's all html from there
just about to change my template by the way. what a coincidink.
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askinstoo, thank you for your comments, you will see I have removed your second comment as it seems you are spamming my blog. Any comments of this nature in the future will be removed. Please respect me ...
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