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JonEdwards · 2024-09-13T14:49:59Z

So Sheffield city council (aka Veolia) insist we take our plastic to our "local recycling centre". Until 18 months or so ago, this was the Sainsburys 5 minutes walk away, which we use a couple of times a week. Happy days. Then they shut it, as apparently it was "being abused". AKA it never got emptied, so people just left bags of stuff there, next to the full skips, which tore and blew about the place. So we have to use the Tescos a 10 minute walk in a different direction, which is a dedicated trip with a carrier bag full of rubbish. Perfectly doable, but not an especially efficient use of time. Except the Tesco recycling point has just been closed - officially because of Veolia strikes, but talking to some of the staff, they doubt it'll be reopened as it was, again, "being abused"; again, AKA it wasn't emptied frequently enough. So now what? We don't generate that much stuff, but it still builds up. I'll be ****ed if I'm making a dedicated car journey once a week to get rid of it (the Tip is 15 minutes of stop start driving away) and we don't have space to store a full car-load's worth of rubbish. Currently all the carefully washed and saved recycling is going to go to landfill just to get rid of it. That's nice and environmentally friendly isn't it? Then Tetrapacks (again, we generate 1 or 2 a week). They all helpfully say "recycle at store" on the side. But no ****ing store will take them! In theory there's a particular Waitrose that does (just the one across the whole city), but again, another special, dedicated, trip, and when you get there, its the same Veolia branded bins as all the other stores and no separate recycling for the cartons. So if these "mixed recycling" bins are OK, why do the ones (that were)at the local sites not also take them??? (yes I could choose to pay more for OJ in plastic bottles, but now we can't get rid of them, either!) Mostly this is just a vent. But you try and do stuff "right", and as always, you just get ****ed over. I feel genuinely guilty about chucking all the recyclables in the black bin, but there's no way its more green to spend half an hour in urban traffic in the car, which is the only alternative!

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squirrelking

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Pain in the hoop binning off courgettes in plastic? Don’t buy courgettes in plastic.

Not a big deal since I don't like courgettes but with no grocers in, well bugger knows where the nearest one is, I don't have much choice for anything else. Does my head in.

Posted : 15/09/2024 11:47 pm

reeksy

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Australia- dig a hole and drop it in.
On a serious note though – 3 wheelie bins, 1 medium for general waste emptied weekly, 1 large for recycling (glass, cardboard, tin, aluminium, emptied every 2 weeks, and a large one for biodegradable waste, same as the recycling bin. Although landfill is really cheap, Australia has quite a focus on recycling that started out of the paper industry. This now extends to glass as well, but we behind on plastic with the exception of PET.

Not round here. We have two wheelie bins. General waste - we just put ours out for the first time since the start of August. Recycling - everything but soft plastics - every two weeks.

The bottle and can deposit system began a few years back in Queensland and is working well I think. 10c back on every item. We have a depot where you chuck them on a conveyor and it counts them and gives you money. Some charities/clubs etc have collections so you can effectively donate your rubbish and they make money. They've been doing this in South Australia for ages though.

Posted : 16/09/2024 12:01 am

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