Recycling bins

[john]

Rubbish day tomorrow and I've had to sort my rubbish into recyclable and non-recyclable waste. Just think there are people in the world lacking basic sanitation and drinking water and I'm not able to just landfill everything. It makes me :twisted:

Then I read this article in the Daily Mail and it made me even more furious.

I blame I Believe in Fixies personally.

 

[mikee]

i understand your pain
its pish
i spend about 15 mins a day putting stuff in the right bloody bins
we have 7 bins now

 

[Tad]

Rubbish day tomorrow and I've had to sort my rubbish into recyclable and non-recyclable waste. Just think there are people in the world lacking basic sanitation and drinking water and I'm not able to just landfill everything. It makes me :twisted:

Then I read this article in the Daily Mail and it made me even more furious.

I blame I Believe in Fixies personally.

Rumbled!

It's all part of our master plan. Us clever jam rolls (see we're learning cockney rhyming slang to confuse you all) have got in to Europe just to come up with cockamney legislation. The purpose of this is that the average Brit will spend an inordinate amount of time sorting out recycling and the like so that they will be unable to do any work. My fellow countrymen will then be able to flood the country in ever increasing numbers to take all the jobs that the Brits can't do because they're too busy trying to decide whether a tetrapak orange juice carton is recyclable or not and cutting the little windows out of old envelopes to recycle the paper in one bin and the plastic in another.

The plan was working so well and thanks to John, the lid has been blown. John, you will receive the Daily Mail's citizen of the year award for this I'm sure.

 

[Kestonian]

<tongue in cheek>
It's really quite simple: the best way to sort recycling is to pay people on low wages to do it.

And I don't mean imported labour.

Inflated food / fuel / everything prices with stagnant wages effectively turn everyone in the UK into cheap labour, so you get to sort your own rubbish.

It just cuts out the middle man.
</tongue in cheek>

Bin logistics used to frustrate the hell out of me in the UK. Which bin on which day and what happens when there's a Bank Holiday (let alone the hundreds you've had recently!)

Out here, my bin gets collected daily. If it didn't it would stink in the heat and monkeys would scatter it everywhere: think foxes with opposable thumbs!

Recycling once a week - Singapore is pretty poor on the recycling front, but getting there.

The best bit is my monthly bill is itemised. Bin collection costs 2 GBP a month

 

[dbmtb]

Will try once again.... in a less volatile forum.

"It's the latest Dalek Invasion of Earth".

 

[MikeD]

The Daily Mail usually makes me furious too

 

[Drencrom]

I'm not even sure the pizza box was ours. The pips must have been put in our bin by a passerby.'

Bit like that time a Daily Mail ended up in our recycling box. My God, the embarrassment! I swear we had neighbours who thought less of us after that episode.

Oh the shame...

 

[AR-CoolC]

I bet if you followed the bin lorry collecting the "recycling" it would just go to the nearest landfill site anyway.

I'm not convinced all this recycling actually happens on a daily basis.

:removes tin foil hat:

 

[MikeD]

There was a documentary a while ago about all the paper recycling that gets shipped to Asia. They pulled some old envelopes out of a stack of stuff in the Phillipines or Thailand or somewhere and took them back to the house in Wales they'd come from. The occupants were naturally surprised

[EDIT Some corrections to myself:

"A while ago" = five years
"Phillipines or Thailand or somewhere" = Indonesia
"Wales" = Islington

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/r ... 493728.stm]

 

[Drencrom]

As in they hadn't shredded anything with their name and address on before putting it out for recycling? Muppets.