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Recycling pitfalls

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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Hmmm 🤔 

Id not thought about this ... a growing problem apparently

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/mattress-landfill-crisis-recycling-nightmare

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    One of the paradoxical problems with recycling is that it creates more waste because people aren't worried about throwing things away anymore. At least those are recycled and not just chucked into the stream like people have been doing around here :| I did always wonder what happens to those try before you buy matresses though.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’d just like the bin men to pick up our refuse, 6 weeks now, could be 8. Fortunately it’s only 3 small bags but at £50.00 a week I’d like it collected. No chance of getting rid of a mattress around here.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    At least traditional sprung mattresses contain some recyclable materials.  As far as I can see, the ones that are sold online are 100% synthetic - the wrong idea at the wrong time.  I've been known to scavenge the coconut fibre and wool shoddy from a mattress dumped in a public place.  They can be composted or used as they are for mulching, or for lining hanging baskets.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Rik56 said:
    Lyn said:
    I’d just like the bin men to pick up our refuse, 6 weeks now, could be 8. Fortunately it’s only 3 small bags but at £50.00 a week I’d like it collected. No chance of getting rid of a mattress around here.

    Really?.. jeez.. there's gotta be business oppotunity there surely?
    Apparently there is... 


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • glasgowdanglasgowdan Posts: 632
    There's too much focus on recycling and not enough on reducing material usage. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've just had to bin a CO monitor as it contains a " non recyclable lithium battery" 
    Seems wrong chucking Lithium into landfill.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Can you not put the monitor into 'small electricals' recycling?

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    Can you not put the monitor into 'small electricals' recycling?
    no such option available here
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited February 2020
    You're covered by Torridge area @Hostafan1 ?  Your household waste doesn't go to landfill .. according to this  ... and you can take small electricals to the recycling place https://www.torridge.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=19731&p=0  :)


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited February 2020
    pansyface said:
    There’s an answer to everything if you just look hard enough

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-51466978/how-mattresses-could-solve-hunger




    That's a useful solution to what is hopefully a short term need, but it doesn't deal with the recycling issue ... they're still going to break down and pollute the environment with plastic  :(





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