Recycling On GMTV??

Question

They said landfill sites will fill within 9 years and they may bring in fortnightly collections. My family recycle 2 bags of paper, a whole bag of plastic bottles and a another bag of cans ,and there is only for of us.
yet on gmtv this morning two houses which allso have 4 people in each use 22 bags everytwo weeks. we get our rubbish picked up once a week our recyle stuff fortnightly yet we only use one black bag a week?
dont they know how to recylce?

Answer 1

It seems safe to say that the media can, as so often, be accused of distortion. I'm assuming that the report was to highlight the need to recycle and avoid dumping in landfill sites.

Whilst I wholehearedly agree with the principle I do wish the mdia would be more realistic. How many houses have you seen yourself that have 22 black bags outside them on bin-day. I think 3 or 4 bags per household per week would be more realistic.

Just looked up the figures from Defra and each person produces 517kg of waste per year of which 113kg is recycled and the remaining 404kg is not recycled - a little over 20% recycling rate. Although it's not a lot we're moving in the right direction and the amount of waste recycled has approximately quadrupled in the last 10 years.

Seems that GMTV have exaggerated the figures or specifically chosen what must be two of the most wasteful families in the country.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/waste/kf/index.htm

Answer 2

I have to agree, I find that our fortnightly collections are more than sufficient, and not only that I think sometimes our recycle bin is often fuller than our standard rubbish bin.

I do not see the point of people complaining that their council taxes are high, thus they will not recycle. By recycling you are contributing to the local economy through jobs in the local area. The materials being recycled are sold, and generate reasonable amounts of income for the councils. A check of wholesale rates of aluminium is about £600 per tonne, paper and card up to £200 a tonne, PET bottles £120 per tonne and steel £40 per tonne. Whilst your small amount of recycling wont make you much, take this over your entire town, city and council region and your council if efficient should be making a net profit, thus beneficial to your local area and council tax.

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Answer 3

Councils should provide better recycling IE more matrials than presently,and larger bins for said materials.

Even so if you have a large family then whats happens to them.
This type of forced measure will only back fire.. and really wot differance will it make to the land fill overall if the collections are every 2 weeks instead of weekly

Answer 4

I agree totally! Our household rubbish is collected every two weeks and our wheely bin is sufficient - we are a family of 5 and if you recycle plastic, paper & tin etc where possible and put fruit/veg etc; into a compost bin there is not masses of rubbish left to get put into landfill. It's called having a social concience.

Answer 5

We are the same as you, why don't the council give refunds on those that don't throw so much away. It is laziness on peoples part.

Answer 6

my neighbours are the same always moaning there bin is full but don t recycle come on people its not hard