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Do you recycle ?
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"I do recycle, but I feel that reducing and reusing is more valuable. "
I do that with shopping bags! Even a co-op one i use because i sometimes go there for the odd thing, Go there for the bakery stuff especially the cakes.  |
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Not really, in my local area the refuse and recycling system is diabolical. As this area is a huge maze of council flats where much of it is alleys and pathways, there are few areas that the trucks can go to, and because of that the bins that provided are the smaller wheelies which get filled within a couple days after they were collected and the collection is every week. I just gave up trying to recycle while ive been living in this area cos the waste collection for this part of the town im in is just shameful.
Im hoping that my, and other residents, lack of recycling will help force the council to put a better system in place. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Ah yes, i should have added reuse, repurpose to the title 
We do reuse and repurpose many items.
I am also on a local facebook page where i can gift items i no longer need/want, usually there is someone that wants them. This can be anything from furniture to books to crockey to spare rhubarb it's a great facebook page |
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"We do, but we don't have much that "needs" recycled.
We buy reusable/refillable, eco friendly options, glass in milk bottles, plastic free teabags etc. "
I'd like to buy reusable/refillable, eco friendly items but generally the cost is way to much for me despite there being many places to get them nowadays.
I have wanted to have milk in glass bottles for years but no one locally has them nor can i get a delivery  |
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"Not really, in my local area the refuse and recycling system is diabolical. As this area is a huge maze of council flats where much of it is alleys and pathways, there are few areas that the trucks can go to, and because of that the bins that provided are the smaller wheelies which get filled within a couple days after they were collected and the collection is every week. I just gave up trying to recycle while ive been living in this area cos the waste collection for this part of the town im in is just shameful.
Im hoping that my, and other residents, lack of recycling will help force the council to put a better system in place."
It's a shame, hopefully it will improve  |
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"I do yes! Yeah they are good. However can you believe someone would actually steal a bin? Happened to me once, Even though had my house number in bright coloured numbers. Lol  "
We have had this happen. I knocked on the door of the people that had took our highly visibly numbered bin and swapped the bins there's was gross, heaven knows what they had been putting in it  |
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Definitely, I'm perhaps a little too keen. I've even written to Tescos to complain that their packaging is crap. For example, various things packaged in clear plastic trays, with a clear film on top. The tray is recyclable, the film not, but they make it so that it's physically impossible to separate them, they use some sort of "Men in Black" super glue, frustrates the hell out of me. They go as far as communicating what can and cannot be recycled, but don't actually check that it's possible to recycle properly!!!! |
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I recycle, and will only socialise, talk or meet anyone from fab who knows has to separate their plastics correctly. We are allowed to have our preferences you know. |
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Yes and my council makes it very easy to recycle. They are quite obsessed with being green.
We have a food caddy, recycling bin (paper/plastic/glass), garden waste bin and general waste. |
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"I recycle, and will only socialise, talk or meet anyone from fab who knows has to separate their plastics correctly. We are allowed to have our preferences you know. "
Same. It should be under the 'about me' on everyone's profile. Recycler or non recycler. |
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I must admit I do want make more effort in a new year with more conscious shopping, looking at packaging etc.
On that note..has anyone seen Primark shopping bags made of brown paper looking like candy cane which can be reused as wrapping? I have used brown paper before for present packaging.. drew on it.. and added crafty bits to it.. dried or fresh flowers, spices, pine branches and twine.. it can actually look really pretty  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I do, yes.
Drastically reduced the waste I produce by avoiding buying things in packaging too.
My landfill bin gets emptied every three weeks now. I didn’t bother putting it out last time as there was very little in it. I did this time but could have waited. If I had, it would have taken nine weeks to fill it. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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We compost too. Hubby has an area where he grows veg, our own compost obviously helps this.
The local co op has a container to put animal food pouches in plus some plastics which is great. I hated putting the food pouches in landfill. |
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Our black bin never gets full but we have 2 green bins for the recycling plus a brown bin for garden waste that won't fit in our own compost bins. I have noticed that as we have got better at buying items with less packaging then we don't fill the 2 green bins.
I would love to buy items in containers that can be refilled but it's to expensive at the moment. |
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"I recycle, and will only socialise, talk or meet anyone from fab who knows has to separate their plastics correctly. We are allowed to have our preferences you know.
Same. It should be under the 'about me' on everyone's profile. Recycler or non recycler. "
Likes - Soft Swinging / Anal, / up cycling |
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"I recycle, and will only socialise, talk or meet anyone from fab who knows has to separate their plastics correctly. We are allowed to have our preferences you know.
Same. It should be under the 'about me' on everyone's profile. Recycler or non recycler.
Likes - Soft Swinging / Anal, / up cycling "
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"I recycle, and will only socialise, talk or meet anyone from fab who knows has to separate their plastics correctly. We are allowed to have our preferences you know.
Same. It should be under the 'about me' on everyone's profile. Recycler or non recycler.
Likes - Soft Swinging / Anal, / up cycling "
I meant under the body type/height part. Yours is even better! Upcyclers  |
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We do as much as we can, and make use of charity shops rather than (for example) chuck a book in the recycling that we no longer want - we reuse stuff where we can, and try not to buy stuff if there's a more eco-friendly alternative |
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"I recycle, and will only socialise, talk or meet anyone from fab who knows has to separate their plastics correctly. We are allowed to have our preferences you know.
Same. It should be under the 'about me' on everyone's profile. Recycler or non recycler.
Likes - Soft Swinging / Anal, / up cycling "
Special Skills - sorting out the rubhish and getting rid of junk mail |
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"I try my best , what I don't understand is why you can't stuff like pizza boxs in the recycling bin, not round our area anyways."
I've googled it and it seems it's because of the grease and bits of food left on it. |
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"What do you do with tetrapaks? It says recycle on them but my recycling bin says not to put them in there. "
I've googled it and you can find where to recycle them in your area |
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Yes I try to recycle as much as possible. Kerbside for glass, metal, food waste, paper/card and hard plastics. Then I take all soft plastic to the co-op as well, this has saved a LOT going in my landfill bin.
I use refill products where possible and saved over 100 plastic bottles from the system. Every little helps. |
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Yes I’m an avid recycler at home and work.
Just spent a couple of hours litter picking on the high watermark/timeline on the marshes.
All bottles will be cleaned off (using rainwater) and put in recycling and the other stuff (poly, helium balloons, shoes, tennis balls etc) will go to land fill.
Better there than in the sea. |
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"Yes I’m an avid recycler at home and work.
Just spent a couple of hours litter picking on the high watermark/timeline on the marshes.
All bottles will be cleaned off (using rainwater) and put in recycling and the other stuff (poly, helium balloons, shoes, tennis balls etc) will go to land fill.
Better there than in the sea. "
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I live in a block of flats, and the council have recently provided us with a couple of recycling bins. Most people seem to use them. I even wash out jars, tins, plastic containers etc, and am happy to do so |
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We did at our last home, but here the recycling goes in bags, we have foxes and badgers that destroy these bags with in hours so it’s impossible. We tried to leave them in a spare wheelie bin bagged up but they wouldn’t take the bags from the bin  |
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"Yes I’m an avid recycler at home and work.
Just spent a couple of hours litter picking on the high watermark/timeline on the marshes.
All bottles will be cleaned off (using rainwater) and put in recycling and the other stuff (poly, helium balloons, shoes, tennis balls etc) will go to land fill.
Better there than in the sea. "
Not having a go at you but most of our waste is sent abroad to be dumped on another country
The uk country dosnt even recycle 10 percent of its waste.
"Yes but our local power station incinerates to generate so a lot goes into that"
Are you saying that your fine with local polution/global polution just to generate electricity.
either way your poluting the earth by burning it and then also taking alot of oxygen to burn it |
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