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Socoder -> Off Topic -> 5p Bottles |
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 02:03 | |
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GfK |
I seem to have taken a wrong turn and ended up back in the late 70s... Linkage
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 02:03 | |
Jayenkai
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Bolton Recycling refuse to take Yogurt Pots. I look forward to pay day when I cash them all in!!
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 02:14 | |
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GfK |
According to Sky News, less than 10% of what we put in our recycling bins actually gets recycled. The rest ends up in landfill/the sea. I'm all for looking after the environment but if a bottle finds its way from my recycling bin, to a whale's gut, I am not responsible for that. Aside from that, my nearest supermarket is 11 miles away. I have to drive there and cars cause pollution. So what problem are we really solving here? The government should be forcing local councils to ensure that what's put in recycling bins, GETS recycled. But as always, it's much easier to stick their heads in the sand and blame/punish/inconvenience the taxpayer. |
| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 02:56 | |
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Jayenkai
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As far as I'm aware, Bolton Council seem fairly good at their recycling. We've had a recycle area in "the weird industrial place, near the tip" for as long as I can remember, and I'm pretty sure they're doing their job down there.. Either that, or it's been a big fucking con all these years, and they're just burning everything and fucking up the town. .. ... Which wouldn't be surprising, really. This is Bolton, after all! The fact that they pluck yogurt tubs from the recycle bins, and pile them up next to folk's bins, is a testament to the fact that they're at least half-arsing the big con. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 04:25 | |
steve_ancell
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Councils never were a lot of bottle. And with this bottle deposit making a comeback we're all gonna be having kids knocking at the door every five minutes asking for empty bottles, just like Dave said, "back in the late 70s".
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 05:50 | |
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GfK |
I wonder if the Alpine Pop Man will be making a comeback?
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 06:06 | |
Jayenkai
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Nope. You’ve lost me there, grandpa!
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 06:26 | |
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GfK |
Maybe they didn't operate nationally, but it was basically a bloke in a little lorry, who used to come round once or twice a week to deliver glass bottles of pop, and take the empties away for you. It was before Soda Streams were invented. |
| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 06:35 | |
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Jayenkai
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Ooh, the Pop guy. OK.. Nah, we had a Soda Stream.  Still have it, in fact, but replacement gas cylinders are hard to get when you're stuck in the house.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 11:18 | |
rockford
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 The government should be forcing local councils to ensure that what's put in recycling bins, GETS recycled. But as always, it's much easier to stick their heads in the sand and blame/punish/inconvenience the taxpayer.  ^This^ It's always easiest to blame and tax the common person - they are easy targets and not necessarily the ones responsible. There are a number of solutions that the government has ignored - 1 - Force shops to use less packaging, which CAN be recycled. 2 - Get councils to place more bins (especially) recycling bins where people can actually access them easily. Every local shop should have them - they used to around here, but not for a long time. 3 - Re-introduce weekly bin and recycling collections. Rubbish is piling up and getting strewn about due to lack of collections (Not in MK, thankfully, as we still get weekly collections of both refuse and recycling). 4 - Invest in companies that create standard packaging that can be recycled and/or will rot. 5 - Get non-tax-paying companies like Costa et al to plough their profits into recycling/use of bio-degradable materials. Do no pass these costs onto the public or tax-payers. 6 - Just plain recycle more of the stuff that actually can be recycled. Don't dump it in landfill, or send it thousands of miles away. Do it in your country. None of the above is down to Joe-Public. These are issues that only the government can and should enforce. |
| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 11:28 | |
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Jayenkai
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Yeah, less packaging is definitely something that's needed. Mum bought 4 potatoes the other day from Tesco.. Just 4 plain regular spuds. Except they'd been packaged in a plastic tray, inside a plastic wrapper, and labelled as "Jacket Potatoes". FFS, Tesco... Back in my day, we'd nip into Lo-Cost, grab a couple of spuds and pay by weight. Simple.. Nowadays everything's bloody wrapped up. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 11:53 | |
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GfK |
See... the number of times I've been in the toilets at supermarkets and witnessed some dirty bastard not bothering to wash their hands... I really wouldn't like to think they then went off and started pawing through the unwrapped spuds. For that reason I much prefer stuff that's protected.
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 12:08 | |
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Jayenkai
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That's why you wash your fruit and veg!! And the 24 hour quarantine in the radioactive booth before you let them into the house. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 12:10 | |
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GfK |
Ew.... not sure any amount of washing would convince me all the cockgerms had gone. :/
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 12:13 | |
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Jayenkai
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Yeah, probably best not to worry about the insects that crawl around on them whilst growing, and any animals that might decide to do things, nearby, or the places where the soil/manure that grows them has come from... Enjoy your fruit!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 12:15 | |
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GfK |
I know all that... but.... COCKGERMS!!
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| Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 12:16 | |
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steve_ancell
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GfK I wonder if the Alpine Pop Man will be making a comeback?Down here it was a van with Corona on the side of it. |
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