Post by: bethypoos on December 27, 2006, 08:15:26 pm
I have a confession - i am crap at this! I've been meaning to start recycling my newspapers at least, and as i don't get a council collect them yet it's always been easier to throw them out.
Well, yesterday i was at the carpark at the gym and there's a recycling bank which was overflowing. This guy i know from the gym walked up and there was no where to put his papers. Instead of dumping them in the bin or on the floor he took them into the gym with him. I heard him in the bar talking to someone saying he'll take them back home and bring them back when the bin has been emptied.
I felt SO ashamed. He was going out of his way to do his bit, and there's me with a car who can't even be bothered. So, I'm making an early new years resolution that i'll remember this sweet guy who was so thoughful, and use it to make me a better person 
Post by: oldspice on December 27, 2006, 08:20:55 pm
Your council should have a recycling policy. Councils that don't will have massive levy charged to it which they will be forced to pass on to rate payers.
I have been recycling all my life (49 years). I was born into it. Nothing at home was ever wasted. Peelings went on the compost heap, cardboard boxes were flattened and used for various purposes, dad repaired our shoes on a shoe last, we burned all sorts of things on the back room fire and grew our own fruit and vegetables. All this in London!
Post by: Velvet Darkness on December 28, 2006, 08:02:36 pm
Good for you Bethypoos. I admire you for making the effort or at least deciding you will from now on. 
I do some recycling but probably not as much as I could.
Oldspice you were lucky to have had such a good example set by your parents.
Post by: Forth Bridges on December 28, 2006, 08:27:21 pm
grey bin- waste
blue bin - paper
and a brown bin - garden waste
soon to have a green bin - glass/ plastic
Post by: loulou on December 28, 2006, 10:24:16 pm
Post by: oldspice on December 28, 2006, 10:34:41 pm
We have three bins too:
Black - general rubbish
green - recycling (not glass though)
Brown - garden waste
We keep the black and green bins in the front garden, under the conifer trees and the garden bin generally stays in the back garden until the night before it is collected. The black bins are collected on alternative Thursdays with the green and brown bins collected on the Thursdays in between.
Post by: goldencup on December 28, 2006, 11:12:58 pm
Post by: oldspice on December 29, 2006, 09:05:49 am
Post by: loulou on December 29, 2006, 09:30:44 am
We get a green wheelie bin for general rubbish and then a stupid black tub with no lid and doesn't hold much at all for recycling. What annoys me with it is if it is raining the collectors end up with a tub of soggy paper and then then they don't have the sense to put it back in my garden upside down so I come home to half a tub of rainwater. My green wheelie bin has to be collected on Tuesdays from the back gate but the recycling tub has to be collected on Wednesdays from the front gate. People with gardens get a brown wheelie bin for garden waste and that is collected fortnightly.Post by: on December 29, 2006, 10:25:43 am
They have actually 'chipped' our bins so that they can keep a close eye on what we put in them. The first time you 'sin your bin' they send something round to explain the system (96 different languages are spoken in Peterborough) but if you keep doing it they fine you.
I thought that was a hoax!
Post by: oldspice on December 29, 2006, 01:47:12 pm
Post by: StrollingMinstrel on December 29, 2006, 03:25:50 pm
We have a black rectangle tub, with lid, for paper and translusant green bin bags for plastic and cardboard. The council collect every fortnight.
I do try and recycle most of these bits as they have tried to make it easy for us, but I have to admit to sometimes throwing things in the bin automatically without thinking.
For glass we have to take it to a recyle place/bin ourselves, which does mean they tend to pile up a bit before I get around to doing it.
Post by: oldspice on December 29, 2006, 03:31:59 pm
Post by: StrollingMinstrel on December 29, 2006, 03:33:30 pm
Post by: kevvosa on December 29, 2006, 05:33:29 pm
Post by: smurfboy on December 29, 2006, 05:54:52 pm
As I live in a flat we don't get any form of recycling bin. If there was I would use it.
Snap. It's ridiculous - we have a communal bin store which could easily house a recycling bin, but there isn't one.
Post by: goldencup on December 29, 2006, 05:57:08 pm
Post by: oldspice on December 29, 2006, 06:08:28 pm
Councils who have no recycling facilities for people in flats, bedsits and other similar dwellings will be called to account by the government which is deeply committed to green issues.
Post by: Velvet Darkness on January 02, 2007, 08:46:54 pm
Where I live they have just started giving out recycling containers for each house in certain areas, but we come in the middle of two areas and so no containers for us yet.
Last year they said maybe this year, this year they said maybe next year..and so I wait.
But to give the local council some credit, most of the larger villages and even some of the schools in the area have facilities for recycling paper, cans and glass so it's not so very bad.
Post by: oldspice on January 03, 2007, 06:57:27 am
You don't have to wait for the council though. Pick up a couple of cardboard boxes next time you go shopping, one for newspapers, one for tin and plasic cans/bottles and one for glass. Wait until they are full and next time you go shopping in the car, drop them off at the nearest recyling bins.
Flatten thin cardboard (like pizza boxes or cornflake boxes and treat them like newspapers. You get more in the box if you flatten them. Same with juice cartons.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 03, 2007, 08:25:08 am
If you had a real Christmas tree don't forget you can recycle them too!
Post by: kevvosa on January 03, 2007, 10:01:11 am
I don't have a car myself so Oldspices suggestion is not for me.
Post by: oldspice on January 03, 2007, 05:02:09 pm
Post by: Forth Bridges on January 03, 2007, 06:18:23 pm
Post by: Velvet Darkness on January 03, 2007, 07:47:47 pm
Have a fake tree, which is lovely and once I cover every millimeter of it with tinsel it looks real!
If I had a real tree I could chop it up and burn the logs on my fire, I love having a log fire on a cold winter night.
Hot chocolate and a blazing log fire. Hmm lovely.
Post by: kevvosa on January 03, 2007, 11:05:17 pm
Post by: loulou on January 04, 2007, 09:42:10 am
Post by: Velvet Darkness on January 04, 2007, 04:35:49 pm
Agreed.
It can be a real pain, cleaning it out, lighting it, and sweeping the chimney too!
But I wouldn't trade it for a gas fire anymore. (Although when we first came here from Yorkshire the instant on heat of my gas fire was one of the things I missed the most.)
Post by: kevvosa on January 04, 2007, 08:42:20 pm
Post by: loulou on January 05, 2007, 11:35:12 am
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 05, 2007, 01:30:51 pm
Post by: goldencup on January 05, 2007, 05:49:35 pm
I don't like gas fires. I have one but have never put it on . I put the radiators on instead.
Same here. Can't remember the last time I put the gas fire on.
Post by: Velvet Darkness on January 06, 2007, 10:38:53 pm
Does anyone here still use a paraffin heater? Using this type of heater makes a smell on your clothes. I haven't smelt that smell for years, but it's one of those familiar smells from my childhood that makes me feel cosy and brings back nice memories.
Paraffin heaters were what my grandfather always used in his green house, so the smell brings back happy childhood memories for me too.
Post by: Forth Bridges on January 07, 2007, 11:36:49 am
so I emailed l3 papers, about a tip off I hoping one will go up their!
Post by: Velvet Darkness on January 07, 2007, 09:57:03 pm
Good for you. I hope they do a piece on it too.
That's disgusting, I mean I know rubbish mounts up over christmas but really doing that is not right!
Post by: lorri on January 27, 2007, 02:12:09 pm
Does anyone here still use a paraffin heater? Using this type of heater makes a smell on your clothes. I haven't smelt that smell for years, but it's one of those familiar smells from my childhood that makes me feel cosy and brings back nice memories.
same here, and i can still clearly remember going to the local hardware store with my nan can in hand to get paraffin from a machine in the shop, can smell it now 
Post by: oldspice on January 27, 2007, 05:51:54 pm
Post by: lorri on January 29, 2007, 01:24:38 pm
Bom, bom, bom, bom, Esso Blue!
Thank you oldspice,i had forgotten about that , now i really am going back to my childhood
Post by: oldspice on January 29, 2007, 06:17:59 pm
Post by: loulou on January 29, 2007, 06:26:59 pm
Post by: kevvosa on January 29, 2007, 07:45:52 pm
Post by: oldspice on January 29, 2007, 07:49:40 pm
Post by: loulou on January 31, 2007, 06:44:43 pm