Greener Living, and what we can do to help

I seem to have enough Bags For Life that imply I must be immortal! ;o)

Ant

Hi

The Waste Disposal Operatives (bin men) in West Lancs take bottles, cardboard, tins, garden waste, plastic and paper as well as domestic waste, so not bad and it encourages us to recycle from home.

I was on holiday once in Ireland and the place we were staying had recycle bins for literally everything - you had to dismantle individual things into their component parts and bin accordingly.

Outside there were more bins for further recycling. One bin was labelled "Soiled Magpies".  I thought that was going a bit far until one of my friends pointed out it actually read "Soiled Nappies"

I should have gone to.... that glasses place!!!!

Pip :))

In Germany they even have recycling bins behind the checkouts so that cardboard such as ceral boxes can be recycled; you then  just leave with the ceral packet itself.

I think so much packaging is wasted just for the sake of marketing purposes and not many companies are taking any action on redcuing this (there are some but no where near enough).

There is alot more this country can do by means of recycling and it does seem to be dragging behind compared to other parts of Europe.

Iceland is another example where they use hydro elecricity to power and heat things; again recycling is high on the agenda.

regards

Craig

I love your story Pipit - brilliant!!!!!

As for general Local Authority recycling we have at least 6 holidays a year staying in cottages in different places in the country. The local  authorities vary vastly from one area to another, but Monmouthshire and Gwynedd have come out bottom up to now.

Our own local authority (Ribble Valley in East Lancs) is excellent. They collect all paper, cardboard, cans and tins, bottles and plastic as well as general household waste, all in wheelie bins. No having to separate component parts apart from the odd bottle lid. There are also recycling areas in all the car parks for clothing, shoes, fabrics etc. It is all so easy.

If one area can do it, why can't the others?

I remember years ago my x-hubby running a Paper business, along with the Organic Gardener's Group that we where supporting and it was amazing even at that time how keen people where to get rid of their old magazines and newspapers even all those years ago  - I am talking about the mid-80's here.

Hubby came home one day, and told me story which amused me quite a lot.  Each Saturday he had his regular customers, and some people added their contributions from the local church too.  So he had all sorts of people from all types of backgrounds handed them their paper waste - the more 'waste' that was handed over the more money hubby got out of the business he had made for himself.

One parisher arrived on his bike with a bag load of papers, magazines and comic books of the adult variety - which he handed over with a red face, and a smile  Once hubby had clocked on to what he had given it was a bit embarassing to have been given so much information from someone's private life.

Just shows that people have their own version of a guilty secret or too LOL

Regards

Kathy and Dave

KatTai said:

I think one of the biggest differences is a different type of "feminine hygine" product that I use which has considerably reduced waste (and saved me a fortune)

Oh yes thats a good one, did this quite a few years ago + since have disscussed it with quite a few friends + had a few converts!! Thumbs up!!

Ann S said:

I think one of the biggest differences is a different type of "feminine hygine" product that I use which has considerably reduced waste (and saved me a fortune)