General Chat

You are kidding??

A basket for GLASS?

I love the fact that we have been told to ..... put our household waste in plastic bags!!

I just don't understand their thinking.

Deanna X

Like you Deanna, we used to take bottles etc. to the different banks around the estate...

Having recycling on the doorstep saves the petrol taking things to the bank....

I do not squash bottles or tins......and now we have been given a little brown basket for the glass.....great....

But they have to be washed out anyway Bernard so the council tells us!

What's even dafter in our area is that all tins and bottels, once washed and squashed, have to be tied up in a plastic bag before being put in the recycling bin. Now that's not exactly green is it!

We have been recycling for a few years now.

We used to take the plastic, and glass down to the bank.

Then we were given a yellow box, for paper, glass and cans... so the only way you could get them in was to squash them.

washing goes without saying, although a few people I know had theirs refused because they had put them out dirty!!
It's like putting a dirty milk bottle out to the milk man, isn't it?

NOW... we have three huge bins in the garden.
BLACK FOR HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH.

BROWN FOR CANS, PAPER AND PLASTIC(but only bottles!)

GREEN FOR GARDEN WASTE, AND CARDBOARD!

The glass now has to be taken to the bank.
We have been promised that we will get another bin for Glass... please... we wont be able to get into our homes!!

Deanna X

Lol Jeanette.

Gwyn

Jeanette - filling plastic bottles with hot water completely nullifies the excercise. The energy wasted producing the hot water far outweighs the green savings in plastic recyling !!!!!

OH gets the plastic bottles to squash. His top tip is to fill them with hot water first which makes them softer to squash.....don't forget to empty the water out first though! lol

We don't squash cans / tins....I reckon that could be dangerous.

Just plastic bottles get the treatment at this house...You get them into the box( like a child's toy box ) more easily then.

Gwyn

Yes I wash and squash, one of the frist to have recyling been doing it for years now.

kc

I used to squash down cans and plastic bottles, but Hubby doesn't.
He says there is enough to do without that.
And believe me he is right.
He has so much to do even before recycling, which we whole heartedly agree with, but he can't do everything.
Deanna X

Grandson likes that sqashing job.

If we don't flatten the bottles they often bowl down the street on a windy collection day.

Gwyn

Does anyone else squash all plastic bottles down to next to nothing size.Everything that can be squashed gets that heavy hand and the noise drives me mad. lol Annie