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My money is on the fact that its undesirable to have small bits of waste - that is why ring pulls on cans of drink changed to be not something you pulled off (and dropped). The small bits go in animals mouths and stomach easier. They are also harder to pick up for people tidying up (rad sweepers etc). This would not be a problem if people disposed of their unwanted things thoughtfully.
Our council specifically tells us not to do this because bottles are scanned to check what type of plastic they are, and if they are crushed they cannot do the scanning so they get sent to landfill...
I used to remove the plastic top and ring, also the same for the metal cap on wine bottles but the rest of the household complain about me wasting time. TBH could go back to the days when you took your own container to the shop to buy the liquid etc, oh and ban pop !. We are so "advanced" these days !.
And yet i was told to remove the top so that the truck can crush them easier.
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When we first had household kerbside recycling collections about 20 years ago, everything had to be sorted into separate boxes and baskets, and we were asked to flatten bottles and cans to save space in the collection vehicles.I am aware that different parts of the UK have different protocols though. Different boxes/bags/bins for varying groups of recycling. I wonder about standardisation - its a standard problem. And still many say - why cant the council sort it
Several....including the excellent Lytham Taps!
The sheer gross inconsistency between the numerous local authority recycling schemes is a disgrace. It undermines the effectiveness of recycling everywhere. Once it became clear that local authorities all have their pet contractors who in turn elect to to recycle in slightly different ways, instead of awarding councils brownie points for the level of landfill avoidance, the government should have established a common set of standards for all areas. Accepting that some councils may have difficulties with certain types of refuse, and certain types of 'non-compliant polluters'*, there is no excuse for the number of different bin colours that residents and visitors have to choose from for each waste material class. Here (St Albans DC) we have green, brown and black bins, but when on holiday, I've seen blue, grey, red and purple bins and have no idea of what goes in which bin, or indeed what will be taken at all!I used to remove the plastic top and ring, also the same for the metal cap on wine bottles but the rest of the household complain about me wasting time. TBH could go back to the days when you took your own container to the shop to buy the liquid etc, oh and ban pop !. We are so "advanced" these days !.
And yet i was told to remove the top so that the truck can crush them easier.
I am aware that different parts of the UK have different protocols though. Different boxes/bags/bins for varying groups of recycling. I wonder about standardisation - its a standard problem. And still many say - why cant the council sort it
And then Croydon going from a green box and a blue box to a wheely bin for each so now everywhere is a sea of nearly empty wheely bins even though we managed with just two boxes plus the spares (for parties) that stacked inside each other when not in use. Croydon nowadays wants us to pay for our garden waste collections - many seem to dump it, burn it or stuff it in the normal waste. I still compost what I can and the rest is a drive to the tip. I can see us getting charged to recycle everything - what incentive is that ?.
Actually I do know, there are two adjacent to each other!! I call it retirement paradise, especially the second-hand/charity shops where people dump their once-time-used designer gear!!Several....including the excellent Lytham Taps!
On a related note, why do they (or at least near me they do) always smell of gypsy tart? Haven't had it in a few years but can still recognise it now!
OMG. That "dish" called Gypsy Tart is deeply deeply ingrained in my subconcious fear as one of the most revolting school deserts I know. I see it on sale in Morrisons BUT cannot even bring myself to look twice at it to judge if it is better than the totally bland abomination my school foisted on us.
I once lived in Sittingbourne, just over the Swale from Sheppey, not that I ever visited the place. and I recollect seeing it for sale in bakers. I'm hazy as to whether I tried it then, but a Co-Op run bakery in Hither Green, where I moved to next, certainly sold it. I found it okay, if unexciting.
That’s so funny. It’s 8.20pm on a Friday and I’m watching Gardeners World right now. I wouldn’t have been in the house at this time on a Friday evening when I was in my twenties and thirties. I can’t even walk round the corner to the village pub as it closed last week. The last bus into town went at 6.40pm and there is no bus back home so no point.
Bugger I missed it. Still being in London I am on a night bus route, but being old I have no friends going to the pub so regularly !.
A pub is a great place to make new friends. (Full disclosure: My wife and I are shareholders in the first community-owned co-operative pub in West Yorkshire....which is thriving - unlike a lot of its big company-owned competitors).
Thats nice.
The "joy" being that it seemed that under 50% of them did anything!Nobody you talk to remembers the joys of indoor fireworks.
And some were a bit more exciting than required.