| Topic: | Re:Re:Recycle bin collection issues | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 13/11/17 23:33:00 |
| So what on earth do the stickers say that you find so objectionable? It is supposed to be best practice to let residents know what the problem is with their bins. Wales has a 50% recycling rate and these boxes are I'm sure also used in Wales. I'm surprised though that in some of these streets of small properties that the system for recycling for flats isn't used. One size doesn't fit all - that was also in the WRAP report. It is a great shame that the Council has not been working with residents to find better solutions. It is true that packaging has changed and is changing. There is very little that is unrecyclable. Today I put the thin film lid and bubble wrap from a punnet of strawberries together with some plastic off a piece of cheese in the bin. There are so many more plastic bottles - ketchup, mayonnaise, Marmite... so the weight of this packaging has reduced. We'd have less packaging if we complained more about excessive and unnecessary packaging - especially about the oversized boxes some internet shopping arrives in. There are regulations about excessive packaging and some companies aren't abiding by the rules and do need to be held to account. On TV tonight the BBC were showing film of all the food waste we make. Apparently it is us the consumers who are the worst. We need to stop talking about Sell By dates. That is both Jeremy Cooke and Jay Rayner talking about them in the past couple of weeks who need to be reminded that there is no such thing as a Sell By date. We have Best Before and Use By dates and it is perfectly legal to sell food past its Best Before date. There is even a company that specialises in doing this but it also has to explain about Best Before and Use By dates: http://store.approvedfood.co.uk/page?name=best-before-dates Most of us who use the food waste bins have succeeded in further reducing our food waste by seeing exactly what we were wasting and finding ways to alter our buying, eating and/or storing habits. This goes to be made into fertiliser gas and electricity. Remember that when the lights go out! |