is a cunt.
Our ever vigilant bunch of old women in government, local and national, are concerned that “recycling” remains stubbornly at 45%, where it has been for several years, so they have come up with a ripping new wheeze: From March 31st paper must be separated from cardboard, but hand on – what about those flimsy post cards we sometimes receive from exotic locations like Southend, or even somewhere more exotic like Luton?. Those sometimes very thick paper adverts insurance companies like to send out. Paper sack or cardboard sack?. What a decision to make – fuck it, let’s just dump everything in a black plastic sack and then recycling will fall. I couldn’t be bothered to fuck about and I doubt many people will:
Nominated by W.C. Boggs.
I think there’s only newspaper that is paper anymore and can still be used to wipe your arse on. Whereas glossy magazines have a latex finish to preserve them. Carry on ladies, you are stuck with your 45%.
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Does that mean you will be getting yet another, different coloured recycling bin?
An additional 30 million bins (one for every household) which are made of plastic and can’t be recycled.
Have they thought this one through?
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Mrs Twatt and I are going to identify as members of the travelling community since they will be exempt from the new recycling rules.
Expecting Pikeys to recycle their shit would be racist.
Good morning and bollocks to everything.
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Whenever I see a modern, suburban road on English telly, there are at least 3 different coloured bins outside each house.
It looks like a fucking mess!
If each house only has 2 bins on average then the total is 60 million.
Then there are all the businesses.
The bins break eventually and I can’t even imagine the size of landfill that would be needed to get rid of them.
Who manufactures the bins?
I want to buy shares in the company.
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Recycling is bullshit.
A racket.
Whyd you think the mafia in America got into waste management?
Huge amount of money involved and plenty opportunities to scam.
I have a full time job already.
If they want me to spend countless hours sorting out shite they can pay me.
Until then i just toss whatever I want into any colour bin.
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The recycling scam was when you used to take the 10P deposit bottle down to the newsagents and you mate would nick it back from the back yard 😏
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You are of course correct. There are now ‘ re-cycling points that can be traded in much the same way that co2 points were manipulated. Re-cycling plants can sell polnts to polluting co. as off sets
. A racket
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Decades ago when living in London, there were plastic transparent bags you put everything in. I used to walk past neighbours and see they hadn’t washed out their tins and bottles. The dirty bastards.
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Where I live now, glass bottles and the like have to be taken to a recycling bin a distance away.
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That was to stop people disposing of body parts 😉
suitcase to Bristol seems to be the done thing now.
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Occasionally the bin men fail to collect our recycling bin, when that happens and I complain they make a separate trip in whatever vehicle is handy to make the late collection; on more than one occasion they’ve just slung it in the back of the landfill lorry – an insight into what ultimately happens to all this waste at the other end.
Meanwhile, the local authority has started to force us to have to make an online booking when visiting the local tip; register your name, address, vehicle registration, and what you will be dropping at the tip, for each and every visit you make. The result? Fly tipping is off the charts.
The recycling and waste management function of government is just a front for implementing yet another measure of authoritarianism on the public; they don’t actually give a shit about the environmental value of what they’re imposing on us.
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This recycling lark is an odd business.
Either the lazy cunts at the recycling centre want you to do all the work for them, or sometimes, the opposite.
I saw something in the telly years ago about some recycling plant. A rather serious looking man in a white coat held up a mayonnaise bottle and solemnly declared that it couldn’t be recycled because it was ‘contaminated’ with mayonnaise.
In other words, you are expected to use your own hot water and detergent to clean out every last trace.
Fuck off!
Then I heard of other councils that won’t accept wet cardboard in their bins.
We all know that the best way to get a large cardboard box into a bin is to let it get soaked in the rain first, but they won’t allow it.
Can’t be recycled, apparently.
Which is odd, because I thought they pulped cardboard in steaming hot water?
Anyway, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. My local council got busted a few years back for sending all their recycling to landfill to save money.
I suspect most others are too.
Fuck ‘em!
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What I loved about the recycling strategy in Scandinavia was the complete lack of waste.
All drinks bottles and cans have a deposit that can be reclaimed at the supermarket checkout, once you have returned your empties into the machine at the entrance. Hence the fact you will rarely see a bottle or can left in the street.
All supermarkets have a recycling point for old newspapers, clothes, shoes and electronics. Therefore the only stuff that goes in the bin is packaging and a tiny bit of food waste, like potatoes peelings.
The bin bags are made of paper and have a fill line. Go past this and the bin men won’t take it. Ditto if they find a bottle in there.
All bin bags are taken to the local district heating plant to be burned as fuel for the local heating / power network.
All of this is obviously achievable. It just requires pride in one’s environment.
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Exactly the opposite here Odin.
There are community bins spaced out down every street.
In rural areas there will be a couple in strategic places and in summer, with more people here they will put out more.
The bin lorries come every night, including holidays and empty the bins.
The workers don’t even need to get out of their lorries on most occasions, the truck are fitted with lifts that haul up the entire bin, empty it and then put it back in place.
If you have big crap to get rid of, like washing machines or fridges then you can leave them next to the bins and a special lorry will be called to take the stuff away.
No fuss.
We do have the occasional recycling bin for glass or old clothes, but it’s up to you if you want to use them or not.
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I had a little set too with a council on some aluminium that I had cut up into 1ft lengths.
They refused to take the bin!
I contacted them and asked why they took aluminium fizz tins but not, aluminium box section, they claimed not to have the capacity to process them?
Last time I looked it was all squashed into a cube and sold.
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I don’t know a single person that saves up all their plastic waste and then takes it to a tidal river or to the sea to chuck it away.
So what the fuck is all the plastic in the oceans about?
It’s governments that throw plastic crap in the sea.
Either by allowing disposal companies to do it or by paying other countries to ship it away for supposed recycling.
I reckon that the ships from other countries get just far enough out of site before they ditch their cargo load, and then they get paid again for going back for more.
If they want to cut down on paper waste, which is biodegradable anyway, then put a ban on companies delivering flyers and leaflets and take away licenses for the cunts that produce free newspapers.
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I am not a hippy, but you may find this useful.
https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/plastic-pollution-facts
so who is dumping the shit in the ocean?
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Where I live there’s an extra smaller box for putting fruit peelings that go into a plastic bag to prevent seagulls getting at them. I’ve noticed I’m the only one doing this on my row, but there’s the traditional faithful black plastic bag that secretly hide a multitude of sins and anything could be lurking in them. The people they employ to remove the waste don’t care if they leave stuff behind strewn all over the streets and on windy days it’s worse, but at least it is blown away for someone else to see too.
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My problem with the British approach to recycling is that there’s too much onus on the consumer.
I’d prefer my ketchup in a glass bottle. Easier to clean for starters. A sand blaster would struggle to clean out a plastic one.
I’d prefer my apples in a paper bag, not in a polystyrene tray covered in plastic.
The suppliers choice, not mine.
But I’m made out to be the cunt if it goes in the wrong bin or isn’t spotlessly clean.
Short of self sufficiency or starvation, what choice have we got?
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It’s my understanding that most rubbish is simply burnt in a very large “Oven” and a large part of the rest is sent to places overseas for recycling which means they throw it into a ravine.
It’s all virtue signalling expensive government bollocks.
Good morning.
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Yep, most of my crap goes up the chimbly, A west wind just sends it to Norway, an easterly to the states.
Wheely bin only gos out every four weeks or so.
Thinks…..so what are you paying council tax for?
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Chuck all the used paper into Unkle Tel’s special oven
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I’d like to recycle ♻️ 70% of the UK population 😩…. unfortunately that would mean a few more bins for awhile with all the different separations needed,now that would be worth the effort…as for the council 🐂 shit i do my bit by tossing it into the back street as that seems the new fad 👍
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Everything you buy is in some kind of container and some need a safe cracker to open. Whatever happened to the paper bag that was twisted round and handed to you.
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It is already like an assault course from the Krypton Factor where I live, & that is every day, not just bin day as everything is now left out on the pavement, on many roads. Just add the stench from overfilled wheelie bins that usually belong to the Efnics that never recycle anything, & stick all their crap in the same bins & a full B.A. set might be appropriate. It will be them where much of the problem lies. Ever seen one doing their bit at the local recycling centre? That’s a big fat No.
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There are waste bins on the seafront I could gladly put everything in, but I’m helpful and don’t.
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