is recycling recycled???

[Mike Jackson]

Originally Posted by pressld2

Also, sometimes the recycled materials don't go where you think they'll go. For example I always thought that glass was recycled back into bottles and jars but there was a thread here a while back which said that much of it ends up in materials used to resurface roads! But if that means less quarrying for stone chippings and less glass bottles and jars going to landfill then does it matter?

Dave P.

Hastings do that. Apparently it's a lot more cost effective for the council than recycling back into bottles. It would cost them to have the bottles taken away for recycling but they break even if the bottles are used for road surfacing. Mind you some of the local hoodlums cut out the middle man and try and use them for road surfacing every Friday night.

[captain nodge]

This is proper recycling

[artdemole]

YOU SHOULD SEE what or local coucil do with it.Homepage - Bath & North East Somerset Council Click on RECYCLING,RUBBISH AND WASTE click Recycling-info+advice Its a long trawl but I hope it helps...

[BloomingMarvellous]

And this is what happens when recycling goes terribly wrong, no wonder other countries don't like us very much.

How a cargo of rubbish became a crime scene that shames Britain - Green Living, Environment - The Independent

[captain nodge]

Jeeze, yeah that is bad,

[pelog12332]

gosh,that is terable

[captain nodge]

Originally Posted by artdemole

YOU SHOULD SEE what or local coucil do with it.Homepage - Bath & North East Somerset Council Click on RECYCLING,RUBBISH AND WASTE click Recycling-info+advice Its a long trawl but I hope it helps...

Yeah had a trawl through and they do seem to have a very comprhensive and positive recycling scheme, be even better to know that they were putting this into practise, there must be a blue ribbon type award for county councils that go the extra mile and do what it says on the packet,

[Ukwildlifeo]

Only few months ago my council started sending two trucks around: 1 for rubbish and one for recycling. Makes you wonder how they magically separated the recycling and rubbish after they were crushed together in only the 1 truck before

[brendaward]

Recycling has been left to local councils to determine. When you go to different areas there are different colour bins, different requirements and different penalties. My daughter lives in Norwich with no access to her back garden. There is a fortnightly collection of household rubbish, far longer than the life cycle of a fly. She left her bin in the small front garden slightly on the pavement rather than take the maggot infested bin through the house. She received a knock on the door from the council bin police who said she could be fined up to two thousand pounds for leaving it there. As far as recycling glass goes she does not have a car to get to the nearest recycling depot and I am sure that taxi drivers would not appreciate rubbish deliveries.

Wouldn't it be easier to centralise the system and establish the same rules, colours and collections nationally? Some councils pick up glass, ours does not and we have to use precious oil to get it to the bottle bank. The whole thing needs centralising so we can avoid the inevitable confusion.

Our recycled rubbish here gets recycled with the generous support from the EEC. It backed a local business man build a waste sorting plant. We clean it, he sorts it, Now all we can recycle is clean cardboard and paper,cans and plastic bottles. Most of the recyclables still go to landfill. funny situation when you are cleaning something not to save the planet but to make someone rich. But thats life.