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Recycling Or Not
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Do we not have recycling plants in the UK and do global companies like Unilever, P&G, Coca-Cola etc. not use recycled materials?
I make every effort to split recyclables and put them in the correct bin....then I read things like this and think why am I bothering. Saw something similar a couple of years ago in Malaysia. I think it was in Malaysia anyway - presented by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
Do we not have recycling plants in the UK and do global companies like Unilever, P&G, Coca-Cola etc. not use recycled materials?
I make every effort to split recyclables and put them in the correct bin....then I read things like this and think why am I bothering. Saw something similar a couple of years ago in Malaysia. I think it was in Malaysia anyway - presented by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
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the Chinese decided a couple of years ago they didn't want British waste any more so I suppose we're desperate to find some other poor country to unload it onto.
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Yes that's us all right somebody will always clear our rubbish up and if you cant find anybody you can always fly tip it , travellers have been doing it for years with no trouble so it must be o/k
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Anyway somebody must be making money out of shipping it over there and that's what its all about
This chap tell it as it is https:/
Anyway somebody must be making money out of shipping it over there and that's what its all about
>>> turkey is buying it to recycle it's up to turkey to sort this out
Analogy:
If you enter into a contract with someone to take your domestic waste away you have a LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY to check that the person/company you're dealing with is a licensed waste contractor, who will only dispose of your waste in a proper manner. If you use an unlicensed carrier, who then fly tips your waste, you can be taken to court and face very stiff penalties.
It would't seem unreasonable to me to also expect UK waste companies who're sending waste overseas to be LEGALLY REQUIRED to check that it's being disposed of responsibly (whether by genuine recycling or, in the case of non-recylable waste, in a way that meets internationally-accepted standards for getting rid of it, e.g. to power district heating schemes).
We expect fashion retailers like Primark to ensure that the workers who're producing the goods they sell are being well-treated by the standards of the countries they're employed in (and also by international standards, where relevant) and that practices such as using child-labour aren't being used. Surely we should be expecting companies who trade in the opposite direction to be similarly responsible in what they do?
Analogy:
If you enter into a contract with someone to take your domestic waste away you have a LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY to check that the person/company you're dealing with is a licensed waste contractor, who will only dispose of your waste in a proper manner. If you use an unlicensed carrier, who then fly tips your waste, you can be taken to court and face very stiff penalties.
It would't seem unreasonable to me to also expect UK waste companies who're sending waste overseas to be LEGALLY REQUIRED to check that it's being disposed of responsibly (whether by genuine recycling or, in the case of non-recylable waste, in a way that meets internationally-accepted standards for getting rid of it, e.g. to power district heating schemes).
We expect fashion retailers like Primark to ensure that the workers who're producing the goods they sell are being well-treated by the standards of the countries they're employed in (and also by international standards, where relevant) and that practices such as using child-labour aren't being used. Surely we should be expecting companies who trade in the opposite direction to be similarly responsible in what they do?
>>> Tigger, you are wasting your time recycling because councils just put the lot into landfill
Utter rubbish!
It costs around £1000 (in payments to the site operator and, more importantly, in massive Landfill Tax payments) to empty a single lorry at a landfill site. That's why local councils are so concerned that no non-ryclable waste ends up in a recycling bin. (Just a single bin liner full of non-recyclabe household waste that ends up in a recycling lorry can result in the whole load being declared 'contaminated' and having to be taken to a landfill site at massive cost).
Further, if local councils are really dumping recyclable waste into landfill sites, why are there so many recycling plants around the country (with many more under construction)? They can't recycle what they haven't got!
Here's where our local council sends all our recyclable waste to:
Utter rubbish!
It costs around £1000 (in payments to the site operator and, more importantly, in massive Landfill Tax payments) to empty a single lorry at a landfill site. That's why local councils are so concerned that no non-ryclable waste ends up in a recycling bin. (Just a single bin liner full of non-recyclabe household waste that ends up in a recycling lorry can result in the whole load being declared 'contaminated' and having to be taken to a landfill site at massive cost).
Further, if local councils are really dumping recyclable waste into landfill sites, why are there so many recycling plants around the country (with many more under construction)? They can't recycle what they haven't got!
Here's where our local council sends all our recyclable waste to:
>>> It must be true - it was in the tabloids!
Yup! Sorry, I forgot about that!
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Yup! Sorry, I forgot about that!
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