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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Following on from Caravancouple's brilliant post,"the green thing" are you green? do you do your bit to save the planet?

I use my green bin for garden waste and my blue box for bottles and tins, I take my plastic to the recycling point and my drinks cans and aerosols to good old Tesco as their recycling machine gives me club card points!

I take my own bags to bring home the goodies when I go shopping and turn unwanted packaging and junk mail into Eco Bricks for my log burning stove and I have just become the proud owner of a compost bin to deal with kitchen and garden waste!

Friends raise eyebrows and neighbour's have me pegged as the mad cat woman (without the cats lol) but I'd like to think I'm doing my bit

TC xx

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

The planet will be fine, it has something like 4bn years to go.

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By *aravancoupleMan
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Following on from Caravancouple's brilliant post,"the green thing" are you green? do you do your bit to save the planet?

I use my green bin for garden waste and my blue box for bottles and tins, I take my plastic to the recycling point and my drinks cans and aerosols to good old Tesco as their recycling machine gives me club card points!

I take my own bags to bring home the goodies when I go shopping and turn unwanted packaging and junk mail into Eco Bricks for my log burning stove and I have just become the proud owner of a compost bin to deal with kitchen and garden waste!

Friends raise eyebrows and neighbour's have me pegged as the mad cat woman (without the cats lol) but I'd like to think I'm doing my bit

TC xx "

Yes we do our bit we take lots to the recycling points

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here is a rather funny take on been "green"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgDhDa4HHo

Watch the whole lot!

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By *andy muncherMan
over a year ago

Nottingham


"Following on from Caravancouple's brilliant post,"the green thing" are you green? do you do your bit to save the planet?

I use my green bin for garden waste and my blue box for bottles and tins, I take my plastic to the recycling point and my drinks cans and aerosols to good old Tesco as their recycling machine gives me club card points!

I take my own bags to bring home the goodies when I go shopping and turn unwanted packaging and junk mail into Eco Bricks for my log burning stove and I have just become the proud owner of a compost bin to deal with kitchen and garden waste!

Friends raise eyebrows and neighbour's have me pegged as the mad cat woman (without the cats lol) but I'd like to think I'm doing my bit

TC xx "

you go for it im the same

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Tonights meet has just offered to recycle my piss, Should i go for it?

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By *andy muncherMan
over a year ago

Nottingham


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Tonights meet has just offered to recycle my piss, Should i go for it?"

they or she my want your urine for there or her compost heap

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


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Tonights meet has just offered to recycle my piss, Should i go for it?

they or she my want your urine for there or her compost heap "

Could be growing Pumpkins lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dont make any effort to recycle because basically I cant be arsed. All right I accept its lazy but I just cant be bothered with putting different rubbish in different coloured bins. If others want to take my bin and separate all my rubbish then go ahead and do it, but im not doing it.

Debenhams had a policy a year or so ago where you had to pay 5p for a carrier bag when you bought anything. I always used to forget to take one and had to fork out the extra (ok its not a lot but its the principle). If I was buying a new dress, I shouldnt be expected to put it in the same bag as my fruit and veg.

And every time I go food shopping, the assistants asking if I have my own bags, no I bloody well dont, Im not a sodding bag lady.

Maybe I am a terrible person but I cant make myself be interested. And no amount of telling me that the planet will be destroyed will make a blind bit of difference either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At work they removed all our desk bins and introduced coloured recycling bins in the corridors. At first it was a pain but I got used to sorting waste...kind off.

Any how, my daughter returned from uni with more sh...erm stuff, than she left with. The storage company dumped, I mean delivered her things on Wednesday. Her sister had been using her room as a dumping ground so they have spent the last two days bagging up stuff.

20 something black bags later...plus the ivy and vines my brother-in-law cut for me my home and garden looks like a dump. I was going to take everything to the recycling centre tomorrow but I can't be arsed. Paid a local firm £60 to take it away and sweep up the mess the foxes have made ripping the bags out the front.

Worth every penny!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We do pretty much the same as the OP apart from the ecobricks thing. Don't have a composter for the garden yet but that's next on the list.

I think the whole govt 'green' thing is nothing more than cash-cow as I believe the planet is going through a shift on it's axis, which it tends to do every couple of thousand years, but having said that, I don't think it does any harm to recycle as much as possible.

Here's some food for thought though...

If you can, watch one of those 'How its made' programmes. When you see just how much of the Earth's natural resources we're using on a daily basis it gives you a sense of proportion of just how big this planet is, but it also makes you realise that we cannot continue using up the Earth's natural metals, minerals and forrestation at the rate we are currently doing.

Coke-cola manufacture 1 million cans of per day, and it takes 5 tonnes of bauxite to produce 1 tonne of pure aluminium, yet bauxite makes up 8% of the planet's total mass.

Millions of ice-lollies are produced every day, each one having a wooden stick measuring 6" x 10mm x 5mm, which means that to produce 1million lolly sticks you need 1/2 tonne of wood not including natural wastage. And that's just for simple little lolly sticks!

It's mind-boggling just how much of the planet we consume each day, so putting a little bit back when I can doesn't seem too much of a hardship.

It's cool to recycle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I recycle my mankini's, I now have an orange slingshot to sow seed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This thread is still not making me want to twist my hair into dreadlocks and climb trees

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

All in with the OP and gadzooks even agreeing with Wishy lol.

The idea that we can rape the planet 'in our lifetime' and not give a fuck is not only lazy its a corrupt moral concept.

The planet would jog along fine without us ruining it with pollutants and debris cluttering up the eco system with discarded plastic and chemicals etc.

You dont have to be a tree hugger, thats a flippant comment. You just have to try and live responsibly in a modern society.

just my opinion...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"This thread is still not making me want to twist my hair into dreadlocks and climb trees "

Maybe you should...I live next door to a so called eco-warrior, climbing trees to save the planet etc and everything goes in her black bin no recycling for her lol

If manufacturers stopped bombarding us with reams of unnecessary packaging none of us would need to feel like we are being bullied into the recycling malarky....I would so love to hand all my unwanted packaging over to the checkout person before I leave Tesco with my weekly shop to save me the trouble of sorting, bagging and binning!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My comment was flippant yes, I do not believe we have to be eco warriers to be green. And I also agree that manufacturers should stop bombarding us with excess packaging.

The operative word there being 'manufacturers'.

I am not doing it. I work full time and I work hard, Im absolutely not gonna waste any of my precious home time swilling out plastic tubs and washing out cans of baked bins and segregating into 100 bloody different coloured bins.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


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I am not doing it. I work full time and I work hard, Im absolutely not gonna waste any of my precious home time swilling out plastic tubs and washing out cans of baked bins and segregating into 100 bloody different coloured bins. "

Don't blame you, I have to admit when I'm short for time or having a mad tidy up it all goes in the one bin. I do my bit and it is only a tiny bit.

I wouldn't dare suggest to anyone they should or shouldn't recycle. At the end of the day until industry and in particular large retail, takes a leading role, me, you and Jo Bloggs next door aint really going to make one jot of difference x

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Up here in Hull, the Council has got in down to a fine art, and people are following suit too.

We still have WEEKLY general Black Bin waste collections.

We have WEEKLY food/garden waste collections from the separate bins provided.

We have Fortnightly plastic/glass/paper/cardboard/cans collections; they'll even take plastic shopping bags too.

Anything else can be taken by 4 waste transfer stations around the city, which are open every day of the year.

As a result, Hull recycles over 65% of its rubbish, less goes to landfill.

The surrounding East Riding Council does likewise, so the message gets through, and the system does work!

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

The Councils could recycle even more if they let you take perfectly good stuff AWAY from the recycling centres.

Some do, some bastard areas don't. Maybe i should move.

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