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| Behemoth |
Recycling Plasticshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6756559.stm |
| Treacodactyl |
I'm still waiting for our council to start plastic recycling. At the moment we take it to someone who does live in a recycling area but even then it's only a couple of types and even then only clear or green... |
| alisjs |
this still doesn't address the issue of plastic waste being shipped to China and being dealt with in non environmentally friendly ways there.
My council admit that all collected plastic waste is sold on the open market as unsorted plastic, which fetches the lowest price. As far as I'm aware, nowhere in uk sorts waste therefore is has to go overseas where labour is cheap enough. Are we doing more harm than good by saving plastic waste? Should we be pestering our councils to collect bottles separately so at least they can be uk recycled? I'm still trying to find a milkman so at least I can cut out the big plastic milk bottles |
| Marionb |
I take my stuff to work with me (16 mile journey) and drop it off at the recycling centre in town.
Usually this includes newspapers, tins, jars/bottles and plastic milk and pop / squash bottles. I still chuck fabric conditioner bottles, washing up liquid bottles, margarine tubs, yoghurt pots etc etc as they dont seem to have a recycling motif thingy on them (actually there could be one on the marg. tub.... not sure and too lazy to look at the mo, but I do keep a few of them with their lids to store odds and ends in) |
| tinyclanger |
All plastic bottles can be recycled in the UK. The other types - tubs and pots, kids toys and other ridgid plastics endup being exported.
There was no mention of sustainable UK markets in the article. Markets drive collection. We need reprocessors in the UK, this means investment. Tiny |