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Rejected recycling amounts up 84% apparently.
Guy on news said leaving milk in the bottom of carton means it wont be recycled.
Ive often wondered whether Im meant to be rinsing the tins out or not.
Ive never seen mention of it, and the way Ive always looked at it is that the steel industry melted ores down with impurities and just scarped off the sl4g which forms on the top.
Guy on news said leaving milk in the bottom of carton means it wont be recycled.
Ive often wondered whether Im meant to be rinsing the tins out or not.
Ive never seen mention of it, and the way Ive always looked at it is that the steel industry melted ores down with impurities and just scarped off the sl4g which forms on the top.
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I reckon more energy is used in firing up the boiler for hot water than any benefit in recycling a can.
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they said you cant recycle pizza boxes if they have grease marks on...
thats all of them imo .. |
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Will all this extra washing out of the tins cause a water shortage in time
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they gave me a maroon bin to sit in the kitchen. A roll of bags and I was to
put my food waste in it. So I basically eat everything I get, but potato peelings. the apple core's etc. So the bin was taking three weeks to fill up? It's a tiny bin too. I would open the lid and a fungal monster was living in it. After three months I thought - I'll get spores and sick if this continues. So now I just bin my waste the old way. I collect my rubbish in a carrier bag and take it to the bin outside MacDonalds in the high street. wah wah wah. |
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Don't you put it out once a week Zorro?
One of the problems I have is what do I put in the recycle bin? It used to be paper, tins and glass jars. But now they say plastic containers as well, I am confused a bit. I drink a lot of Guinness from cans I don't always rinse them out. The food ones I do. |
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I only put clean paper, cardboard in. anything with food marks I don't.
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Yes , I clean mine before recycling.
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I'll recycle when they stop fracking, stop unnecessary
air flights for holidays. Stop air pollution from cars and all the other company related polluters with chemicals and heavy metals. Not to mention the pesticides they pour on the food to begin with. Adding chlorine to water when they can kill all germs with UV light (Germany). Who gets the glass in the bins we clean out? what company? who gets the paper and the card? who gets the precious metals we bin? All sorted by us? do they pay me anything for this work? |
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i recycle out of a sense of civic duty and 'environmental benefits' - but i can see zorro's point completely .
same with my beer bottles ,even though it's a right pain in the ar5e taking them to the bottle bank - not to mention the space they take up in my tiny house |
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it's a right pain in the ar5e taking them to the bottle bank - not to mention the space they take up in my tiny house
I assume you drink a lot of beer Coachbuster  Mine is in cans, my recycle bin smells like a brewery  |
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don't you do that thing where you stand on them & crush them bg.
saves space but could lead to a broken ankle i guess - especially if trying after you've drunk them. |
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but could lead to a broken ankle i guess - especially if trying after you've drunk them. erm....I will give that a miss Ron, I usually am  |
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I don't quite understand this.
If you leave a bit of milk in the plastic container they take it out and bin it, but if you have kept it at the side of your bed so you can take a p1ss in the middle of the night, then empty it down the khazi so it looks clean, they will pass it? I think everyone assumed that they sterilised the feckers in some way but they seem to be making out they take them straight down the dairy and milk the cows' teats straight back into them.  |
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I assume you drink a lot of beer Coachbuster
_______________ gery ,i have moved more towards cans of late - a fair bit cheaper too. years ago beer in cans had a metaliccy taste -that seems to have gone  |
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I recycle everything.
Who cares if a can is half full of week old beans? let the recyclers sort it out. That's what they are paid for. I even put bricks and concrete into my bin for recycling as hard core (from when I cleared my garden). It's all about saving the planet, and I like to do my bit. |
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I always rinse out my tins.
Guy on news said leaving milk in the bottom of carton means it wont be recycled. They don't re-cycle "Tetra-Paks" of any products! |
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I suspect it's wrong of me but I am loathed to go washing my rubbish before I throw it away at the same time as being charged council tax.
As a single man I already over pay on services and in regard council tax subsidise families. Give me a fair deal and I'll be their part time skivvy washing stuff out, until they do its upto them to hire or fund the relevant technology. |
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You get a discount of 25% on ctax for single people, which suggests the average household contain 4 adults.
Which it doesn't, it's almost certainly less than two. |
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Life isn't fair.
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Somebody always does nicely though.
I remember around 15 years ago signing on for a short period. I had to tell them how much capital I had from which they determined an implied income from. I worked out the interest rate you would have had to received to have made such an income and asked where I might find it.  |
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I always rinse out tin cans before recycling, but wine bottles I don't. I rinse out things like marmalade jars before putting them in the recycling bin. Wax cardboard containers are not accepted for recycling in my area. Some areas do I believe.
I've recently bought a zapper racket to zap the flies that now breed in the waste bin because it doesn't get emptied so often now. Killed about 30 of the b******s within a few seconds when I first got the zapper. Great fun!!! Hell of a bang though when a fly hits the racket. |
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I think the taxation system is as complicated as it is so that people don't realise how much is being taken from them.
Add your 20/25/40% or whatever income tax to national insurance, add VAT on almost everything you spend, add all car and fuel taxes, add tobacco and alcohol, add insurance tax add council tax. Must have missed some. Lucky to keep half of your income. |
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do they waste their time rinsing tins out?
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