Curmudgeonly about our recycling, Â we had nice dark boxes, blue for glass and paper, dark green for plastic and tins both with black lids., didnât look too bad in the garden, we havenât had them long. Now theyâve sent round horrible white plastic things, like builders bags but smaller, sticking out like a sore thumb in the garden. Â Whatâs the point in wasting those other boxes.Â
My niece has 7 different boxes and bins for general waste and recycling. Ridiculous as she lives in a small terraced house with little outside storage space. We've just been informed that our collections are changing, nothing too bad as they want glass kept separate from other recycling and a separate bag for cardboard and paper. Big problem is that paper and card is supposed to be kept dry but the bag has a flap over top with velco on one edge only. It's impossible to keep anything dry in it.
I donât think much will stay dry in those bags, Iâm beginning  go off this recycling idea as well @B3  when you see the amount of plastic bottles floating in rivers and oceans I just wonder who is actually recycling and who is just dumping it.Â
They did tell us once that all the glass went to a glass blowing factory in Devon, I hope so but I do wonder.
My daughter has several different coloured plastic builders bags for rubbish, looks awful, especially in the countryside.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
We have a small black wheelie bin for general rubbish and a large yellow one for all packaging except paper and cardboard which we have to take to the recycling centre along with batteries and oil and household and garden chemical waste.  We also have our own green bin which is a half way house between kitchen and compost heap.
The yellow wheelie bins have only been going a year or so and have replaced transparent bin bags for recyclables. I did think it was all brilliant till I read a recent report saying that France is one of the highest exporters of plastic waste for sorting in 3rd world countries.  Why can't the sorting and recycling be done here?
Now making even more of an effort to reduce packaging and plastic waste at home.
Iâve made the effort as well, my 12lt kitchen bin has had a bag in it for 4 weeks now and is only 3/4 full, plastic milk bottles though, we donât have anyone here that would deliver milk so have no choice. At least I donât contribute to land fill. Tesco take back any plastic bags, which I think all supermarkets do, when I asked the chap if they actually do anything with them, he just grinned and âcanât sayâ. That says a lot but it makes us feel better which is what itâs all about I suppose.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
plastic milk bottles though, we donât have anyone here that would deliver milk so have no choice.Â
@Lyn One of the small local shops in our village has milk dispensers, one for whole milk and one semi skimmed. They sell glass bottles with a screw lid which is a one off cost, and then the milk costs 80p for a litre re-fill. It doesn't avoid plastic altogether, because the milk 'bladder' inside the machine has a plastic liner, but it greatly reduces it and avoids plastic at home. It's local milk they're selling (and it's lovely - very fresh). As you say, in a rural area like this, deliveries are just not an option, but there are better options than plastic SM bottles around. Hopefully they'll become more commonplace, especially as it's been a huge success here. They are planning to expand the range and start selling 'free flow' items, like nuts and seeds and cereals all plastic free as well.
There's also a stall in the town market that sells plastic free consumables like shampoo and toothpaste and cleaning products. Speaking to the lady running it a little while ago, she's doing so well, she's planning to open a shop in the town.
There's evidently a strong demand and more and more companies are making the products to sell, so hopefully, as consumers we'll have more options to buy plastic free, even in out the way places like this. The lady with the stall said the downside to the increasing supply of products is she's spending a lot more time doing research to see if the stuff genuinely is plastic free, or if they've just stuck a badge on it.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
There's an incinerator in our borough and I believe it provides power or heating or something for the area local to it. I feel pretty cynical about what happens to a lot of recyclables.
Sounds like a good idea with the milk dispenser, nothing like that here, not that we have a shop, just a pub and church. When we moved here in 86 there was a shop called Normanâs, people may remember Storminâ Norman, but they had loads of foods in big drums, with scoops and paper bags, Â Elf ân safety put a stop to that.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
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They did tell us once that all the glass went to a glass blowing factory in Devon, I hope so but I do wonder.
My daughter has several different coloured plastic builders bags for rubbish, looks awful, especially in the countryside.
The yellow wheelie bins have only been going a year or so and have replaced transparent bin bags for recyclables. I did think it was all brilliant till I read a recent report saying that France is one of the highest exporters of plastic waste for sorting in 3rd world countries.  Why can't the sorting and recycling be done here?
Now making even more of an effort to reduce packaging and plastic waste at home.
Tesco take back any plastic bags, which I think all supermarkets do, when I asked the chap if they actually do anything with them, he just grinned and âcanât sayâ. That says a lot but it makes us feel better which is what itâs all about I suppose.Â
There's also a stall in the town market that sells plastic free consumables like shampoo and toothpaste and cleaning products. Speaking to the lady running it a little while ago, she's doing so well, she's planning to open a shop in the town.
There's evidently a strong demand and more and more companies are making the products to sell, so hopefully, as consumers we'll have more options to buy plastic free, even in out the way places like this. The lady with the stall said the downside to the increasing supply of products is she's spending a lot more time doing research to see if the stuff genuinely is plastic free, or if they've just stuck a badge on it.
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
I feel pretty cynical about what happens to a lot of recyclables.
When we moved here in 86 there was a shop called Normanâs, people may remember Storminâ Norman, but they had loads of foods in big drums, with scoops and paper bags, Â Elf ân safety put a stop to that.Â