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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15932
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 14 6:18 am Post subject: |
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Some plastics are not what they seem. Even when I went for my first job in 1970 I was told that some are layered, so you might get a simple looking bag that has three layers. Yes, most 'hard' plastic items are stamped with a number for recycling, but most of our plastic waste is film or bags and they don't have a number on them.
Some county food hygiene people are very funny about reusing even glass bottles, so I would suggest that you check with yours before expecting to recycle.
For places where we can easily deal with recycling like farmers markets that we go to each month, we have little dumpy sacks for our logs and charge a deposit. It works out quite well. They have the advantage of being easy to carry too. For outlets like farm shops it is a bit more difficult, and net sacks are the best way. Some trading standards can get rather awkward I am afraid, so hessian is not a good option. A few years ago a particular one told all the market traders that they were not allowed to sell to anyone that asked for things in lb and oz. That was withdrawn after a few months, and most of them carried on regardless, but we always have to have weights with kg first, and lb is optional, so 1lb of honey has to be labelled 454g even though it is a moot point as to whether the degree of accuracy implied is correct (scientifically), as the scales only need to be accurate to about 5g. |
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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 15425 Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 15425 Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
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pollyanna
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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 15425 Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 14 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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All glass bottle put in recycle bins are sent for crushing, either to be used as-is (building materials, road surfaces, etc) or made into new bottles. |
But as discussed elsewhere: why not wash the bottles and use them again as bottles?
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Metal collected in recycling is sorted, firstly, using magnets. |
Easy enough for cans: they are either steel or aluminium. Copper and lead are easy enough to recognise, but I've got all sorts in my random metal box...
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Although they don't seem to do it now, I well-remember being paid by weight for aluminium cans which we took to a supermarket car park periodically. |
You can still get cash for cans, you just might have to take them to your local metal yard. Possibly that is down to regulations: the chap in the car park would need a license.
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Though how eco-friendly is it for Pembrokeshire to be sending the stuff to Oxford for sorting? |
I think that ours goes further, but I forget where to. |
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dpack
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pollyanna
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Mistress Rose
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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 15425 Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
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Mistress Rose
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onemanband
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Hairyloon
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onemanband
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Hairyloon
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onemanband
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