Am I wasting my time.....????

[pressld2]

You're definitely doing the right thing Daisychain - good on ya!

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Don't you have a plastics disposal/recycling bin? If so then you wouldn't need to chop them at all?

Even if you have plastic recycling facilities it's still best to chop them. Whenever the recycling facilities get swamped with more than they can cope with, which seems to happen quite frequently where I live, a lot of our carefully seperated rubbish ends up in landfill anyway.

We were originally told that we couldn't recycle the plastic lids from milk and fruit juice containers but recent leaflets from the council have dropped that restriction so we're now chucking them in the plastics box. We've always put the aluminium lids from screw cap glass bottles in with the cans.

That's a very useful list Hedgie - I love the fact that some recycled plastics are used to make recycling bins!

Dave P.

[Biomotors]

Originally Posted by Hedge Witch

#7 - Other: Use of this code indicates that the package in question is made with a resin other than the six listed above, or is made of more than one resin used in combination.
HTH

Ouch! Who designed an enumeration where the catchall is just the next number in the very short list? Did they not think any more polymers would be invented? "Any Other or a mixture" should have been at "0", or at least at "99".

Dominic

[Lance Morgan]

Originally Posted by loripo

People seem to be getting worse about littering etc. Ive read some of th posts about dog fouling and what dog owners do with the poo bags. I took this photo a few months ago near where I live in London - this stuff washed up and down the Thames and the smell is gross sometimes. The swna were trying to find something edible. There is about ten to fifteen feet of water under what looks like a solid surface.

Send this to the local paper and shame the borough into doing something about it.

[Dutchess]

Originally Posted by Daisychain

I run each morning and on my travels I see lots of plastic ring things, they're used to hold 4 pack of cans together, well someone told me that birds get caught in them and can die, so Ive started picking them up and when I get home I cut them into pieces. Is the bird story true or am I wasting my time. It bugs me that people cant be bothered to just use a bin, its not rocket science......

Ever since I watched a tv programme many, many years ago which featured a seagull which had got caught up in one of these things I have cut them up before discarding them. I have also taken the opportunity to show others the necessity for doing so. The message gets through!

D.

[Jez]

I happen to think what with the recycling we are doing that producing a lot more recycled public bins to be placed on our streets. For example I had to leave work early oneday and go into the town centre, I didn't have my bike with me that day so I walked it and left the shop with some refreshment to drink on way. After finish drinking it I wasn't going to drop it, no like any decent human I intended to dispose of it in a public bin but the nearest one I came to was roughly 2 miles down the main road where I discarded it. Now I can't see everyone adopting the same manner, giving up and chucking their rubbish down only to become dangers to wildlife. Unless more is done for depositing our rubbish, attitudes won't change and it will still be left down to the likes of us who can't bear to see littered streets to carry on doing the good work!

[tufftie]

YouTube - The Wombles - Remember You're a Womble

[Dutchess]

Originally Posted by tufftie

YouTube - The Wombles - Remember You're a Womble

I am a true Womble...I was born in Wimbledon!

D. x

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by tufftie

YouTube - The Wombles - Remember You're a Womble

I remember the last womble thread lol....

[tufftie]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

I remember the last womble thread lol....

What is wrong with siting on Uncle Bulgaria's knee then???

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Hedge Witch

#2 - High Density Polyethylene (HDPE).
Used for: ..... lumber, ......


HTH

Now that really is clever ....

About the plastic bottle tops ... our recycle bins ask you to remove the tops. Which is what do, and put them in the same bin as the bottles. I assumed it was so they don't go 'bang' when the bottles are squashed ...