I saw these plastic bags for waste the other day for sale:
What do you think? Would you use them?
Any of our fruit or veg waste and cake or bread is fed to the hens and ducks, pigs, ponies and rabbits. They provide me with free fym for the veg plot and polytunnel.
We take most bottles and drinks cans to Lidl and put them in their recycling machines. These print out a receipt and we are given back the deposit levvy we paid when we purchased them.
Sadly there is no machine for dog food cans which are made of steel. We take them to town and place them in can banks for free.
Recycling seems to be a waste cycle that is forever turning. How much do we pay for our products that are recycled or go in land fill?
I have many thoughts about recycling. It is a business cloaked in mystery. By the way, I have often wondered who General Waste was and why he became so famous.
ReplyDeleteIt is a big business YP. We pay for cans and food packaging. Then we use hot water to wash the cans and use fuel in cars to take it to be recycled.
ReplyDeleteI think General Waste knows General Knowledge.
But you wash the cans at the end of the washing up...so no extra heating or water...and you take them to be recycled when you go out in the car anyway....so no extra expense..
DeleteFair point GZ. I was thinking when people just go to the recycling centre and nowhere else. I would love to know how much our tins or plastic cost without their contents?
DeleteWe separate out our plastics, paper and cardboard and take them once a week to the recycling bins at the tip as P is passing by on his way to volunteer at the museum. All vegetable waste goes into the compost bins. I see that some of the supermarket packaging is now compostable, although there is still too much plastic. I wouldn't buy special bags for our recycling. That seems unnecessary to me.
ReplyDeleteHi Jaycee. You seem very organised with your recycling. I often mulch weeds with flattened cardboard boxes. I often see Organic vegetables sold in plastic bags.
ReplyDeleteAll our recycling goes in one bin, plastic, glass and paper together. We have a big old flour sack which we fill and then empty it in a blue bin and take the bag home to fill up again. I don't know how they sort it out. We now have have special bins for old clothes and shoes. Thank goodness because so many clothes are in good nick but we had nowhere to take them.
ReplyDeleteAll our kitchen waste goes in the compost or I try to dig it into the garden. The ground is a bit dry now though. Ive tried burying fish bones under the lemon trees but the damn cats dig them up no matter how far down you dig
Those bags are sold for profit, most people have their systems already for recycling ♻️, here we try to be as green as we can, our garden composter is kept full and we recycle as much as we can. The bags made me think of a bottles water, which is another unwelcome purchase, as the empty bottles is a huge waste. Marlene, Poppypatchwork
ReplyDeleteYou also sound very organised with your recycling Linda. It was much better when everything was made of organic materials.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame the spring water bottles are not made of glass Marlene. It breaks down naturally in landfill and the water or beer doesn't taste of plastic. I recycle a lot of plastic bottles for plant and tender vegetable cloches.
ReplyDeleteWe have a triple stack of recycling "buckets" on a trolley which is collected once a week. Paper and card, plastic and metal, glass...since the council changed to this system, far more is being recycled than when there were bags or wheelie bins.
ReplyDeleteLandfill wheelie bins get emptied every three weeks, green waste wheelie bin everywhere 4 weeks, March through to the end of November.
I can book to take all sorts of things to the Cowp for recycling or landfill...and collect my quota of 4 bags of free municipal compost per trip ( made from the green waste collections).
That's good GZ. Our county council privatised (sold off) the bins service so you don't even need to have a dustbin. The private companies charge a service charge and you pay by the weight. It's no wonder the seas are full of rubbish particularly plastic. When we have been to the Algarve there are bins everywhere even ones for plastic. Even our very scarce public litter bins say: "No domestic waste?"🤔
ReplyDeleteOh, dear, buy our bags and be acknowledged as a responsible recycler.
ReplyDeleteI like that: a responsible recycler!😃
ReplyDeleteYou’ve got a diverse range of ideas and themes for your blog!
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteI don't really understand the need for the bags. Most of our recycling here is collected fortnightly and the council provides bags/boxes for this.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have a bin service Jules. It was sold off by the council.
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