Recycling ♻️

[suffolk man]

Are we the only ones????? Back on the shuttle tomorrow to go home and in one cupboard we have cardboard, glass and especially tetrapaks to recycle when we get home . Does anyone else have the same obsession ? When we came back from Ireland last year we even brought rubbish back with us. In our defence bins are a rare thing over there. OK perhaps we have a problem

 

[Jon Stewart]

Not at all.

We have a separate larger bins for landfill and recycling for when we hit a site with appropriate disposal.

Away for the weekend, and it'll go back home into our bins.

 

[DavidG58]

We are very much like you, I have also been seen moving recycling out of landfill bins into recycling bins where some people are just too lazy to put it in right place

 

[Lenny HB]

Yep we often bring bags full back if no recycling bins.

 

[Googlebot]

We find France much better served by bins than the UK.

Public recycling bins everywhere, unlike here.

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[Puddleduck]

Always have three bins, home and away. Not that we are away anymore now. Recycling, incinerator ( no landfill here now ) and glass.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Just stayed at a site and told the recycling is done down at the depot so put everything in the same bin. Ha, do you believe that?
Our local tip says plastics have to go in the same bin as general waste as they have no means of recycling it.!
What is the point?

 

[Lusky]

I think I’m obsessed with recycling, ie not simply putting into the ground !!
We returned from a trip around Sheppey this morning with ALL ……. I so wish the population here took a kinder view of the place they live

 

[Puddleduck]

Although I am all for the reuse and recycle systems I do wonder what future archeologist will scratch their heads over when looking through our rubbish heaps.

 

[Lusky]

Although I am all for the reuse and recycle systems I do wonder what future archeologist will scratch their heads over when looking through our rubbish heaps.

Interesting post …… please elaborate ?

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[Puddleduck]

Interesting post …… please elaborate ?

We export a lot of recycling to Africa where it ends up in landfill so will it be thought Africa had so much stuff they just discarded it? Will today be known as "the plastic age"?

I am sure there will be more thoughts.....

 

[optimus-prime]

You are definitely not the only one, almost every time we bring back quite a lot of recycling. This topic also makes us use more water than we could, because we know it will take a while until we’ll find a place to recycle, so the packaging must be really clean to avoid having unwanted visitors. What amazes me is that in sites where all the recycling facilities are available, people still don’t bother to separate their trash…. This adds to the reasons we try to avoid sites. Seeing PET bottles (and others) in the garbage bin is so annoying… recycling plastic bottles is the simplest thing you can do in any European country.

 

[Whippet93]

We export a lot of recycling to Africa where it ends up in landfill so will it be thought Africa had so much stuff they just discarded it? Will today be known as "the plastic age"?

I am sure there will be more thoughts.....

More thoughts:
Why did Africans buy so many Iceland pre packed micro wave meals?
How many Asda shops were there in Africa?

 

[JnJ]

We automatically separate stuff as we go wherever we are.
We have been visiting the Netherlands for over 20 years, they have always been good at recycling and the bottle return points in supermarkets are great. However, we have noticed over the last couple of years that even there people are becoming more lax about separating stuff (might be a generation thing?)

 

[The Old Man]

Just stayed at a site and told the recycling is done down at the depot so put everything in the same bin. Ha, do you believe that?
Our local tip says plastics have to go in the same bin as general waste as they have no means of recycling it.!
What is the point?

Cardiff currently run a similar scheme. So all recycling is collected in 'Cardiff' Green bags, travels with me in the garage for the duration, on return home all bags are deposited into the huge recycling bins at the apartment.

Other waste also stays in the garage to be dumped on return home.