Do you Really Care about Recycling and Carbon foot prints?

Question

6 months ago, the media didn't give a toss about either, now suddenly they are falling over themselves to prove their green credentials.

Does the Uk really give damn or is it all based on Politcal Spin?

Do you use yourgrey wheely bin?

Answer 1

Yeah! To a degree - BUT I do not believe all the spin and crap spouted by politicians and the back door taxes they grab to compensate - this is bull!

History has proved (and some scientists have agreed) that the Earth goes thru this cycle every few thousand years - cast your minds back - twenty (and even ten years ago) they were telling us we were heading for an Ice Age - did I blink and miss it or something.

And what about Al Gore - save the planet blah blah blah - proved wrong a little bit wasn't he - embarrassed or what.

Answer 2

Yes I do care very much and I don't give a damn whether it is being used as spin or a political football or whatever.

I feel it is personally doing right for myself and my community and the environment, being personally tidy and thoughtful.Not letting my rubbish make methane to make others unwell.

Yesterday I saw a farmer spraying the contents of a cess pit onto land that cows were grazing on.

Should this mean that I don't recycle because someone else is acting poorly? if we all took that attitude we would have an awful community.

This is possibly a last chance where we can all pull together on something.

In the last world war everything was recycled because supplies were cut off - we didn't just throw away or indulge in useless packaging.

I grew up in a time when potatoes and other veg were put straight into your shopping bag. I abhor all this false sense of purity and the excess of it.

Answer 3

Been keenly living lightly (though I've never measured my footprint nor IQ nor penis) and recycling for a few years now, picking up recyclables in the street as well, and taking non recycleables out of our communal bins.

I'm not a big media follower, but it explains why there are so many plastic bag and recycling questions on Answers. It means I'm more inclined to keep an eye out for greenwash, and am frustrated about the lack of the other two Rs, for which there will be no commercial incentive for promotion.

"Recycling is just a tidier way of throwing things away"

Answer 4

Yes, I do care about recycling. I have been doing it for half of my life, and that is obviously before the media has made it "cool."
I mean, it's stupid and ignorant not to recycle. It just makes complete common sense. If you can recycle paper, plastic, glass, aluminum, and cardboard so that it can be used again instead of dumping it somewhere on the Earth to rot and decompose and leak down into our ground thus contaminating our groundwater, then WHY NOT?

I don't live in the UK. I live in the U.S. so I don't have an answer to your second 2 questions. But, if you're not recycling and trying to put out less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (reducing your carbon foot print), let me ask you this, "why not?" It's selfish not to.

Answer 5

In Harringey (london) we have about 5 different recycling bins and I use all of them and have been recycling for a very long time. All the political spin and media attention have just hade it easier to recycle and do your part in helping the environment. There is now no excuse in the UK not to be recycling!

Answer 6

I care about recycling.

But this thing about 'the earth's heating up because of us' seems to have become a political bandwagon. Evidence that the earth naturally warms and cools over millenia seems to have been convientiently ignored, and those who bring it up to say 'maybe it isn't just us' get turned into pariahs.
That to my way of thinking is wrong.

Today it's global warming, 30 years ago there was the fear of another ice age, before that the fear of the Bomb... what next? If Nasa discovers some civilisation on another planet tomorrow will there be a sudden fear of alien invasion?

Like I said, it's just a political bandwagon and a witch-hunt against people who doubt it.

Answer 7

I aint got a grey weelie and I don`t buy into this global warming nonsense. The planet has been geting hotter since the ice age, heck the planet was once covered in ice! To those that point out about the numbers of species that will become extinct I say POOH! Evolution didn`t stop just because mankind arrived. everything has a life span and everything will always be changing. They tell us fish used to have legs, crocs and aligators used to be dinosaurs fish had wings. If man was around in dinosaur days with the same attitude we would still be living with the dinosaurs and the world wouold be very crowded............get over it man, it`s called evolutuion.

Answer 8

Industry and wars cause the greatest damage,to see the smoke from the burning oil wells first hand makes you want to get rid of the human race.Theresa has the right idea ,if everyone planted trees on spare ground the world would be a better place.

Answer 9

Yes we care and use the different bins to sort out the rubbish from that which can be recycled Just think about future generations if we don't

Answer 10

Al Gore has a 15,000 square foot home that devours more energy than most of us combined. And he won a Nobel Peace Prize for his "green" contributions.

Yes, it's political. Most of the crap we are watching has political spin.

Me, I don't know how much of this is a fad and how much is real...so I am bringing my resuable bags to the grocery store and drinking less bottled water to be on the safe side.