Author Topic: Recycling (Read 6015 times)

smurfboy · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2006, 05:54:52 pm »

Quote from: kevvosa

As I live in a flat we don't get any form of recycling bin. If there was I would use it.

Snap. It's ridiculous - we have a communal bin store which could easily house a recycling bin, but there isn't one.

goldencup · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2006, 05:57:08 pm »

Our bins are 'chipped' too but apparently the Council can't afford the technology to put in the refuse trucks to read the chips at the moment!

oldspice · « **Reply #17 on:** December 29, 2006, 06:08:28 pm »

Councils who have no recycling facilities for people in flats, bedsits and other similar dwellings will be called to account by the government which is deeply committed to green issues.

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #18 on:** January 02, 2007, 08:46:54 pm »

Where I live they have just started giving out recycling containers for each house in certain areas, but we come in the middle of two areas and so no containers for us yet. Last year they said maybe this year, this year they said maybe next year..and so I wait.

But to give the local council some credit, most of the larger villages and even some of the schools in the area have facilities for recycling paper, cans and glass so it's not so very bad.

oldspice · « **Reply #19 on:** January 03, 2007, 06:57:27 am »

You don't have to wait for the council though. Pick up a couple of cardboard boxes next time you go shopping, one for newspapers, one for tin and plasic cans/bottles and one for glass. Wait until they are full and next time you go shopping in the car, drop them off at the nearest recyling bins.

Flatten thin cardboard (like pizza boxes or cornflake boxes and treat them like newspapers. You get more in the box if you flatten them. Same with juice cartons.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #20 on:** January 03, 2007, 08:25:08 am »

If you had a real Christmas tree don't forget you can recycle them too!

kevvosa · « **Reply #21 on:** January 03, 2007, 10:01:11 am »

My mum has had the same Xmas tree for 3 years, she re-plants it in her garden.

I don't have a car myself so Oldspices suggestion is not for me.

oldspice · « **Reply #22 on:** January 03, 2007, 05:02:09 pm »

There should be recycling collections in every town and city. There is no excuse for local authorities not to organise a recycling programme.

Forth Bridges · « **Reply #23 on:** January 03, 2007, 06:18:23 pm »

fife has done that, there one in most village aswell!

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #24 on:** January 03, 2007, 07:47:47 pm »

Have a fake tree, which is lovely and once I cover every millimeter of it with tinsel it looks real!

If I had a real tree I could chop it up and burn the logs on my fire, I love having a log fire on a cold winter night.

Hot chocolate and a blazing log fire. Hmm lovely.

kevvosa · « **Reply #25 on:** January 03, 2007, 11:05:17 pm »

I hate real fires. I had to make one every morning and it's the last thing you want to do when you wake up.

loulou · « **Reply #26 on:** January 04, 2007, 09:42:10 am »

I had a real fire in my old house and once it was lit it was cosy and lovely . I wasn't very good at lighting it and I agree with kev not something I want to do when I first get out of bed.

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #27 on:** January 04, 2007, 04:35:49 pm »

Agreed.

It can be a real pain, cleaning it out, lighting it, and sweeping the chimney too!

But I wouldn't trade it for a gas fire anymore. (Although when we first came here from Yorkshire the instant on heat of my gas fire was one of the things I missed the most.)

kevvosa · « **Reply #28 on:** January 04, 2007, 08:42:20 pm »

I don't like gas fires either - they're dangerous because of carbon monoxide.

loulou · « **Reply #29 on:** January 05, 2007, 11:35:12 am »

I don't like gas fires. I have one but have never put it on . I put the radiators on instead.

News:

Author Topic: Recycling (Read 6015 times)