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Britain's Nine-bin recycling system sux

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 6:55 AM

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Families are being forced to separate their rubbish into nine different bins in order to meet tough recycling targets
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenerliving/7627055/Nine-bin-recycl
ing-system-introduced.html

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 7:34 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Excellent; it's a start. We have multiple bins, as well...only four (trash, yard waste, plastic/glass/tin andpaper/cardboard), but the result is the county has to hire more people to separate our recycling into those various categories.

People are too lazy to even both recycling at all. Time we woke up and looked around us, but I fear we won't until it is too late.

I heard on one place they are requiring clear bags be used so that they could see who is not recycling, and it's caused a privacy-rights furor. Other places already instituted this, and I wish we had something like it here. The number of people who just throw recyclables in the trash rather than take the minute to use the provided containers makes me sick. Takes too long for people to change their mentality.

I freely admit that nine bins is insanely too many and I don't condone it, but at the same time I want to see more done to get people to go beyond the consumer-driven waste we now put out.

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 7:47 AM

NAVYSEILS

I can't see the nine bin system taking off. Not unless they also want to build an area to house all these extra bins. As it stands I have one for general waste, one for garden waste and one for recycling, and we only just have the space to hold those 3. Admittedly, we don't recycle as often as we should, most of the time it does all go in the one bin. I'm all for encouraging people to do it, I know I should, but the nine bin system aint the way to go.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:07 AM

OLDENGLANDDRY

Thats right, Nine bins, one for every day in a Tennessee week.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:22 AM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse

PN goes off on one again. Now britain sux because we care about recycling. Got I would love a separate bin to put that tosser in. I would gladly hump it to the dump and watch it incinerate.

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:31 AM

MAL4PREZ

In my part of NY it all goes in one bin. I sort it myself and put out only one type of stuff each week: paper one week, glass the next, though it's unnecessary. The neighbors throw it all together. Seems like a pain in the ass for the pick-up guys.

When I'm in VT for the summer I haul my own garbage. I like being able to drop off my recycling, all in it's proper place. There's at least nine.

Yeah, I like separate bins, but don't see it working for curbside. You'd need one big collection center at the corner of the block or something. Good lord - Americans would never do that! We'd never *gasp* walk somewhere! We buy gym memberships for that kind of thing.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:19 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by Navyseils:
I can't see the nine bin system taking off. Not unless they also want to build an area to house all these extra bins. As it stands I have one for general waste, one for garden waste and one for recycling, and we only just have the space to hold those 3. Admittedly, we don't recycle as often as we should, most of the time it does all go in the one bin. I'm all for encouraging people to do it, I know I should, but the nine bin system aint the way to go.

Right, the simpler the system, the easier it is to get people to participate. Here in Austin, participation is high because the city took pains to make it easy to do it. They provide you a bin, they give you the pickup schedule, they give you an easy chart showing what goes in the bin, and they pick it up at the curb. It really couldn't be much simpler than that.

And if I had to separate stuff out between nine different bins, I doubt I'd participate at all.

Oh - our yard waste goes in paper bags, and they'll pick those up and mulch 'em; just put the bags out with the regular bins (one for trash, one for recycling). I'm a little bit proud that the recycling bin is double the size of the trash bin, and we still fill the recycling bin faster. But we ARE still throwing too much stuff into the trash and putting it in the landfill.

So, make it EASIER to participate, not harder. Make it simple, not a chore.

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 10:20 AM

FREMDFIRMA

My pet peeve on the whole thing is the tremendously excessive packaging of american products.

Jumpin Jeezus on a pogo stick, have you ever tried to get a product out of one of them damn clamshell plastic things when the product itself is fragile ?

Or the sheer AMOUNT of plastic crap I have have hack through in order to finally open my DVD case - worse is that "AntiTheft" crap on a DVD I ordered ONLINE where there is ZERO risk of shoplifting, hell-OOOO?!

First the box, then the plastic wrap, then the second wrap, then the sticky wrap folded over the top, then the sticky wrap folded over the bottom, then the black rectangular thingie, then the big square one, and then cleaning off all the adhesive and waiting for the solvent to dry...

Oh, and did I mention some of this is collector level stuff which can be DAMAGED and devalued by applying and removing all that shit ?

How would a comic collector like it if you smacked one of them big square antitheft widgets right on the cover of a comic worth a hundred-plus in mint, neh ?

And for the love of mercy, what the hell is WRONG with using biodegradeable or recyclable packaging ?

Does each seperate CABLE of an electronic device REALLY need it's own seperate bag ?

Krishna onna crotch rocket, reduce the packaging just a little and use some common damn sense to it, and we'd save a hell of a lotta resources and effort, wouldn't we ?

-Frem

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Monday, April 26, 2010 8:11 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Oh, Frem, you speak for me. Yes, nine bins is illogical; we have enough trouble getting people to recycle at ALL. But the plastic thing pisses me off SO much...especially since those clamshell things aren't recyclable!

I see it all around me every day. I'm glad to see people walking into our local grocery store with their cloth bags...it took lots less time for them to start than I thought it would. Before they came along, I was always asking for paper bags, then using then recycling them. This is even better.

We also have a big bag in the stairwell where we put plastic bags (after they're no longer reusable) and periodically haul it in to the bin in the market; and my cloth bags have inside them reusable bags so I don't have to pull more at the market.

There are SO many things we can do, even little things, that it's a shame the American mentality of unthinking waste is so prevalent, and I'm sure will take so long to change.

Those clamshells and the little plastic bags you ranted about (we reuse the little bags) are a particular pet peeve of mine; I wish at the very LEAST the manufacturers could be made to use recyclable plastic for the clamshells. When I think of the sheer volume of those going into the trash daily, it's horrifying!

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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Monday, April 26, 2010 7:28 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

I think they have their hearts in the right place, but they've not been sensible in how they implement it.

We have a number of ways of getting rid of our waste - general household bin, recyle bin and green waste bin (garden waste). The green and recycle alternate weeks. The council also does a hard rubbish collection once or twice a year and a green waste one twice a year. We also compost - but that is our personal choice.

I understand that someone divides up the recycle bins, hey it gives a job to someone so that can't be a bad thing!!!

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:28 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Well, hiring people to divide up the recycling, etc., is certainly a more viable means of dealing with it than NINE bins, that's for sure! And yeah, you're right, it provides employment.

I think you'd have an even harder time getting people to divide stuff up if you make it more than a couple of bins...especially as there are so many who haven't yet been convinced to recycle ANYTHING!

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:30 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

My step-father was director of solid waste collection in a major US city.

Of course they had recycling like every other major city.

Of course everything went into the landfill, since recycling is a mafia scam that costs more than its worth.

Suckers!

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