Comments on: And recycling gets easier .. for us at least http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/ Distracting the Mind with Information Overload Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:10:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: valmg http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71514 valmg Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:03:02 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71514 We've been recycling here for some time now. It's mandatory in the town I live in. We don't have containers like yours above, which I think would be helpful. We use a small garbage can in the house and when it's full we transfer that to a full size garbage can that we keep outside and pull to the curb every week on recycling day. We recycle newspaper, cardboard, cans, glass and plastic. We’ve been recycling here for some time now. It’s mandatory in the town I live in. We don’t have containers like yours above, which I think would be helpful. We use a small garbage can in the house and when it’s full we transfer that to a full size garbage can that we keep outside and pull to the curb every week on recycling day. We recycle newspaper, cardboard, cans, glass and plastic.

]]> By: Diane Scott http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71408 Diane Scott Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:53:52 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71408 Lucky for us we've been recycling as part of the Las Vegas project for the past 5 years. This is the first town/city we've lived in that does so. They take newspaper (paper of all kinds), cans, glass. If our yard wasn't so small, I'd actual compost, too, but... it's buggy enough LOL! Lucky for us we’ve been recycling as part of the Las Vegas project for the past 5 years. This is the first town/city we’ve lived in that does so. They take newspaper (paper of all kinds), cans, glass. If our yard wasn’t so small, I’d actual compost, too, but… it’s buggy enough LOL!

]]> By: Mark Wilson http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71400 Mark Wilson Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:49:58 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71400 I'm amazed at the comments saying how good recycling is in the UK - in my experience it's pretty shoddy. The trouble is that there is a complete lack of joined up thinking and each council is doing its own thing. I live near Milton Keynes and here we have kerbside recycling for glass, paper, cans, foil and plastic bottles but not tetrapaks, aerosols, CDs or the plastics used for yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, etc. - all of which are recycled by some other authorities. When I visit family and friends they can recycle different things, depending on where they live and the answer from the council is always that "there's no a market" for whatever it is they don't take (strange that there is a market just a few miles up the road in the next county... I can see that the logistics on the Isle of Man may make things more difficult but mainland Britain needs to think a bit harder about how to make recycling work on a national level. In our house we also compost all of our uncooked food scraps and shredded confidential papers (for re-use in the garden). Once I can convince my wife that the children won't bring the worms inside we'll have a wormery too for the cooked food waste (it annoys me that we throw so much away but I can't force-feed toddlers and one meal they'll eat the lot but another time they'll just push it around the plate!). All of this has really reduced the amount that we send to landfill (typically one black sack a week for a family of four - and that includes the disposable nappies from my youngest son). I’m amazed at the comments saying how good recycling is in the UK – in my experience it’s pretty shoddy. The trouble is that there is a complete lack of joined up thinking and each council is doing its own thing.

I live near Milton Keynes and here we have kerbside recycling for glass, paper, cans, foil and plastic bottles but not tetrapaks, aerosols, CDs or the plastics used for yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, etc. – all of which are recycled by some other authorities. When I visit family and friends they can recycle different things, depending on where they live and the answer from the council is always that “there’s no a market” for whatever it is they don’t take (strange that there is a market just a few miles up the road in the next county…

I can see that the logistics on the Isle of Man may make things more difficult but mainland Britain needs to think a bit harder about how to make recycling work on a national level.

In our house we also compost all of our uncooked food scraps and shredded confidential papers (for re-use in the garden). Once I can convince my wife that the children won’t bring the worms inside we’ll have a wormery too for the cooked food waste (it annoys me that we throw so much away but I can’t force-feed toddlers and one meal they’ll eat the lot but another time they’ll just push it around the plate!).

All of this has really reduced the amount that we send to landfill (typically one black sack a week for a family of four – and that includes the disposable nappies from my youngest son).

]]> By: Samantha & Mr. Tigger http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71372 Samantha & Mr. Tigger Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:36:15 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71372 We have the bins and they pick up at the curb once a week! Makes it easier to recycle!! Your FL furiends, We have the bins and they pick up at the curb once a week! Makes it easier to recycle!!
Your FL furiends,

]]> By: Christina thecoffeelady http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71364 Christina thecoffeelady Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:42:48 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71364 I always try to reduce, reuse or recycle. We are not fortunate enough to have curbside service yet. I have lived in place where it is available. I always try to reduce, reuse or recycle. We are not fortunate enough to have curbside service yet. I have lived in place where it is available.

]]> By: ChrisM http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71357 ChrisM Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:02:13 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71357 Just a quick note, I don't know whether you've recently installed a new plugin/applied a WP hack, but after a comment is posted, the URL you're returned to seems to have /&cp=2 inserted towards the end. This leads to problems, and you get dumped at the home page. If you manually remove the /&cp=2 and visit that address, you get taken to your just-posted comment. Just a quick note, I don’t know whether you’ve recently installed a new plugin/applied a WP hack, but after a comment is posted, the URL you’re returned to seems to have /&cp=2 inserted towards the end. This leads to problems, and you get dumped at the home page. If you manually remove the /&cp=2 and visit that address, you get taken to your just-posted comment.

]]> By: ChrisM http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71356 ChrisM Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:58:01 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71356 Back home in Britain we recycle. Over here in Kazakhstan, there is absolutely nothing, not even if you were prepared to drive around looking for a bottle bank etc. It is frustrating, and when we first moved over, it felt so wasteful to just throw it all out in the general refuse. Never mind, just another 8.5 days and we'll be back in the UK again for six months :) Back home in Britain we recycle. Over here in Kazakhstan, there is absolutely nothing, not even if you were prepared to drive around looking for a bottle bank etc. It is frustrating, and when we first moved over, it felt so wasteful to just throw it all out in the general refuse.
Never mind, just another 8.5 days and we’ll be back in the UK again for six months :)

]]> By: cady http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71354 cady Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:34:43 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71354 it's awesome that you recycle. we don't. i know we should; we just haven't started to yet. maybe we'll move that way in teh future. it’s awesome that you recycle. we don’t. i know we should; we just haven’t started to yet. maybe we’ll move that way in teh future.

]]> By: Taka http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71350 Taka Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:23:13 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71350 We still have to take our stuff for recycling to the bins at Tesco, our local council don't seem to provide recycling bins...good that you get those boxes. Only a few people I have seen with recycling boxes in my area. We still have to take our stuff for recycling to the bins at Tesco, our local council don’t seem to provide recycling bins…good that you get those boxes.

Only a few people I have seen with recycling boxes in my area.

]]> By: daria369 http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/11/08/and-recycling-gets-easier-for-us-at-least/comment-page-1/#comment-71344 daria369 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:19:09 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2684#comment-71344 And of course I compost everything that belongs to the compost pile. And of course I compost everything that belongs to the compost pile.

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