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On Dec 30, 2:48 pm, "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER
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We aren't required to do it, but we do have recycle. I recycle a lot of my
items but can't claim that I do it with everything that is eligible.


Our council "encourages" recyling- yeah right!

The hand out pink rubbish bags for mixed recycling. Now especially
over the festive season when we have guests and let's be honest we
have loads of empty beer cans and bottles all good for recyling but
they never deliver the bags to any sort of schedule and this year they
haven't sent them out at all. In fact I haven't seen any since
September. And even when they do and you put them out collections are
not regular last year they finally collected our recycling at the end
of January! And we don't have a large front garden to store them in
so what with the refular rubbish it got pretty messy

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Frurballs

My mother lived in a city, and an apartment building in which recycling
was required and putting the right stuff in the right place was enforced
by close-circuit TV and monitoring. She now lives in my city, a place
which has recycling opportunities, but it's up to the residents to make
use of them, and in any case, because we're so far from people who use
the recycled material, only the most valuable is usually worth
collecting (ie you might have to pay someone to take away stuff like
newspaper, but they'll take & pay for some plastics and glass - I don't
know about metal). I have so little that's really eligible for recycling
that I just dump it in public bins, or the ones at work, so the pennies
they pay out go to some charity or other.

A complete recycling program is extremely expensive, especially if
you're going to have to pay for shipping very low-value recyclables to
someplace there MIGHT be a market for them. Aluminum and plastic, OTOH,
seem to be easier and more economical to recycle.

Cheryl