Recycling bin

[goldringers]

I always spilt the stuff in our bins for re cycling, wife got some medical stuff in a wadding like rockwool in plastic.

It clearly says remove plastic the wadding can go in recycling plant vegetation bin bio degradable i.e.

Green bin

I puts it in and spots bin men taking it out on collection day. I explains it to him, he said if I put it back he's not taking it.

So then I noticed packaging on some microwave rice packs, again it says can be re cycled bio degradable put in compost etc 

So I chucked it in the green bin

Bin men came

Lifted the lid 

Saw it and was gonna leave my bin till I explained it. Now I get his point of view which was spot on.

If they open the and see stuff that's not food or garden waste like grass plants and see packages or wadding how are they suppose to know what is what isn't bio degradable?.

 

He said, we don't have the time to read every package and they are under strict orders not to take green bin waste with foreign crap in or they can get bollocked.

So what's the point ?. I know it goes to landfill and will break down but lots of non recyclable goods also get incinerated.

Biodegradable packaging cost more to manufacture and this gets pushed onto the consumer all apart of this green ideology but if it doesn't make it to compost heaps then what's the point ?

 

 

[Diddy]

Just like car park attendants of yesteryear, Bin men are well up for a good bribing lol. My mates a bin man and he confirms. My cousin gives them a beer every now and then say in the summer and at Xmas.....He gets whatever he put's out taken. Special uplifts - done privately off the books. All for a few tins of Aldi beer/cider.