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crazymac:
Pembrokeshire probably has the lazyest recycleing system?

We have black bags for normal waste

We have orange bags for recycleing materials.

In the orange bags you place paper/cardboard type stuff, plastic bottles and cans/tins.

If you want to, you can mix all these items together in the same bag, so shredded paper is no problem.

Personally I have the space for several bins, so i bought 4 black bins and separate my own recycleables, so I put one black bag out a week and usually one orange of cardboard until the tins or plastic fills a bag then they go out.

We have all been provided with a compost bin, which for some is stupid because even if you have no garden or place to keep it you still got one!! And we can't recycle glass through this system, we have to take it ourself to the bottle banks.

robert francis:
i had a letter put through my door saying that i dont recycle, i was fuming as i put out recyling out every week.
i put my old bin out for them to take away and they didnt as apparently you have to phone them for a collection.
i told them i had the bin a kids slide a hoover and a pc monitor. and they said they had to send 2 lorries why the hell they got to do that waste all that extra time and money they should of just taken it in 1,

muddyjames:

--- Quote from: V8MoneyPit on February 25, 2009, 17:45:01 ---Presumably, as it becomes more and more automated at the depots (will this ever happen?) the requirement for households to do the sorting will reduce. That'e really part of my argument for simplifying the system. I am 100% convinced that more people would recycle if it was easier to do.

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Portsmouth I think it is has this now.

The lorries dump it all into a huge warehouse where a converyor system filters out the metal, glass, plastic somehow and then what ever is left gets composted. Once it has been through the compost area it is then sieved and the remains gets taken to landfill. they send approx 10% of the rubish collected to landfill. This way everyone recycles but doesnt know it and is easier as everything goes in 1 bin!

It was on how do they do it on ch5 last year some time.

Gordo:

--- Quote from: muddyjames on February 26, 2009, 17:07:59 ---The lorries dump it all into a huge warehouse where a converyor system filters out the metal, glass, plastic somehow and then what ever is left gets composted. Once it has been through the compost area it is then sieved and the remains gets taken to landfill. they send approx 10% of the rubish collected to landfill. This way everyone recycles but doesnt know it and is easier as everything goes in 1 bin!
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They're building a plant like that near me - everything in the grey bin will go there and be sorted for recycling purposes. They'll still do the separate collections so as not to overwhelm the system.

I'm not particularly green (I driver a Land Rover [Edited]!) but recycling, energy lightbulbs, insulation and stuff like that is easy to do and some of it actually saves you cash too.

muddyjames:
I have energy saving bulbs, and insulated my house to the hilt and sat in the dark and have the heating off! :lol:

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