| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Morrisons Recycling Centre is a mess | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 23/06/14 13:53:00 |
| There are several different aspects to this. It IS terrible the way in which people seem to picnic nowadays and then just get up and walk away from all the mess THEY have made - and this can be in a park or at the seaside. We do now have packaging regulations to restrict the amount of packaging on our goods and we also have kerbside collections for recycling which we didn't in the past. I can remember taking a bag of plastic to Stirling Road every so often - and the frustration of all those different sized and shaped rigid food containers and trying to stack/squash/flatten/squeeze them into a smaller volume of space. The cauliflower in its own personal globe which was the irritation too far for me is pictured here as it appeared in a newspaper article at the same time: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/nov/14/supermarkets.ethicalliving Cauli flowers are protected by their leaves - a lot of which I like to eat - and if you don't buy them from a greengrocer without any plastic they will nowadays come in an open plastic bag. I still don't really see the need for this but it doesn't cause the volume problem that those plastic globes did! I don't think it is just that some people are incredibly lazy but that a lot of people are and we have become victims of marketing. We don't need a lot of which we buy. If we couldn't buy on credit we wouldn't buy as much. We could then be healthier if we didn't eat as much. Sadly we often seem to value food on the quantity rather than the quality. We also seem to think that the only function of the Council is to clean up after us. What happened to the posters telling us to take our litter home? Telling us not to drop litter? Why do we think it is acceptable to trash our own back yard? |