General Chat

Maggie, ours didn't include glass at first but now it includes glass, plastic, paper, tinfoil, cardboard etc and you just have to put it in a recycling wheelie bin (clean) but you don't have to sort it. You can just chuck it in. I cannot really complain yet.

I'm not holding my breath about the glass collection in our area. There's a nasty smug 'we've done it' air about my local council!! lol

Now wouldn't this be a good idea if it works:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7315059.stm

Plastics are not collected in my area and it really annoys me as I sort them. But there is a plastics bin at out local supermarket so when we do our weekly shop I put them in a really big reusable bag - I dispose of them first and use that bag as well as a few others after for our shopping.

I try to use carrier bags as little as possible - but if If I dont have an appropriate bag I will use them.

I think that Denmark used to have the best policy for recycling bottles. They didn't recycle as such ie they didn't melt down the glass/plastic and make new ones.

Instead they used to limit the types of bottles that could be made eg for beer, milk etc. They then used to re-use them in the same way that people used to use milk bottles and the old fashioned lemonade/soft drinks bottles. If only we could do this.

I've long thought that looking after the environment is a good idea. Some 30 years ago I was teaching about conservation to my primary school kids.

But that was because we live on a planet with limited space and resources so turning it into a rubbish dump has never seemed a good idea.

We recycle what we can. We've had solar heating (to do our hot water) for nearly 20 years and done what we can to insulate our house. This saves on heating bills considerably.

When I was doing my O level geography many years ago it was a coming Ice Age which the experts were predicting!

Certainly winters were much colder when I was a child and even in the 1970s and 1980s we had several very chilly snowy spells. We've not had heavy snow in my part of Somerset for well over 25 years.

However in doing family history I've read about spells of really cold weather when rivers froze solid and warm medieval spells when vineyards flourished in many parts of England.

I am still not 100% certain that global warming is all our fault and not simply part of the natural ebb and flow of the climate BUT doing our best to keep the planet lovely and trying to preserve what we've got must be the right thing to do.

Sue

I still use a milkman so recycle bottles that way. Its prob a tad dearer than supermarket milk but i think iys helps the enviroment as well as local business.

However milkman is a law unto his self and recently advised he will deliver on this rd every other day.

with regards to veg - mine is not perfect but the satisfaction of growing your own (pref organicaly) no matter how small is very rewarding regardless of the 'environment'.

On that note I say goodnight x

we have excellent rubbish collection here in Cardiff - household non-recyclable rubbish every week and on alternate weeks green bag collection for glass, tins, newspaper and the like - then garden waste and carboard the other

Saw a good item on the news this week - apparently plastic flower pots are very hard to recycle and are the equivalent of plastic bags in a way, but Wyevale are taking plastic pots and turning them back into plastic particles than can be recycled into new pots, so don't chuck em in the household rubbish, save em for Wyvale!!

My mum always recycled (I guess an old war habit) and she passed it on to us so we've always done it but it's easier now they come to the house and collect rather than having to go out and find somewhere.
Ive spent the last few years looking into bad storms in the UK and we have always had floods and extreme weather so Im not totally convinced that it's changed that much. Although I do remember winters being a lot colder as a child.
I'll carry on doing my little bit and hope that others do but until places like America, Mexico, China, etc make some changes from the top downwards then they can keep bleeting on about it until the cows come home... they may as well stop blaming us because at least as a nation we are trying.

Goodnight Maddie.
Squirrel - that sounds a good idea - have you noticed water bottle in this coutry say 'do not reuse' on them!!!

Sue, like you, I think it may be a natural weather 'wave' - hence I get really peed off by all these people setting themselves up as experts and telling us what we should be doing.
One thing we shouldn't be doing is throwing everything away - not for any global warming thing, but because it's so wasteful.

Ann - that sounds great.......Is there a bus from here to Wyvale?? lol

and don't forget Russia - a big polluter of the atmosphere

And of course ahem.............America.

That prat George W Bush probably thinks global warming is some kind of heating system for houses all over the world!!!!

He's possibly got it mixed up with his favourite game - Global Warring!!

nice one!

I did my bit last night-
I turned my lights off for one hour!

(My 97inch plasma HD TV gave me MORE than enough light to find my way around!)

xxxx mick

Lol Mick!!!

good on you Mick - now that's what I call sacrifice!!!

I get cheesed off when they expect us to have mini recycling units in our homes ( have not been able to get into my under the stairs) because of the box for cardboard box for paper box for this, box for that. They will find me under the stairs one day in my blinky box! lol

seriously though - like Red Squirrel said, China and USA are prime culprits.

What upsets me is the fact that we are being told constantly, to switch off the TV standby light..., share cars, etc......

The whole of Las Vegas is lit up like a Christmas tree 24 hours a day, the powers that be are flying all over the world EVERYDAY.....we have a SPORT which involves cars driving around at speed....I can't even think of anymore it angers me so much.

My carbon foot print must be practically non existent... if I and my OH cut out whatever we are using in the way of 'power'.... we would be living in the 18 hundreds.
Deanna X