Recycling

[alan]

That would only tell them that there was horse meat in them.

[alan]

I think you may be missing a point. If it was made illegal to send or post unsolicited junk mail or leaflets the average household would have a couple of tons per annum less rubbish in the first place.

[Tim Lamb]

Hmm.. presumably our leaders have come to the conclusion that the overall *good* outweighs the *bad*.

Junk mail industry direct employment, increased trade, taxation revenue against individual inconvenience/cost and landfill issues.

[tim.....]

and royal mail would go bust :-(

tim

[polygonum]

All the council junk mail to us is delivered "by hand". So cutting that out would not affect RM.

[stuart noble]

We've never quite grasped the concept of productive employment. As long as everyone's busy going round in circles, the govt is happy.

[Huge]

Oh, the separation by colour is pointless. It all goes in the same lorry and get mixed up before it is used. I ignore the colour nonsense at the bottle bank.

[Huge]

The cost of a postage stamp would go up to £2.50.

[polygonum]

We end up in the situation in which company A sends out junk, so their competitor, company B also starts to do so. Then C, D, and so on.

If none of them did so, then instead of all those companies paying not only for the distribution but for the origination and printing as well, they would save a fortune. So maybe they could all reduce their prices instead?

If a stamp would indeed go up to £2.50, then the amount currently being paid by the junk mailers to the PO (and others) must be astronomic.

[Huge]

Although their definitions of "good" and "bad" doubtless differ dramatically from yours and mine.

They don't give a toss about individual inconvenience/cost.

[Nightjar]

Colour is important when making new glass. The raw materials for glass melt better if a quantity of recycled glass is mixed with them.

Colin Bignell

[Huge]

I have read (several times) that because the general public cannot be trusted to properly separate glass by colour, that recycled glass is not used for any purpose where its colour matters, and that it all goes for glass-fibre insulation and road surfaces.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Huge writes

Stretching the thread a bit.. they could also concern themselves about cold calling..

[DerbyBorn]

The Other Mike wrote in news: [e-mail]:

The City Council of Derby has decided that the population of a couple of areas are too thick, too high on drugs, or too disengaged to bother with putting stuff into the right bins that they have gone back to weekly collections from one black bin.

[news]

Wasn't there a problem with the paper becoming contaminated with broken glass, meaning the pulpers paid less for paper collected this way.

I'm fascinated by technology to do this, magnetic separation for steel cans, eddy current separators for non ferrous and air classifiers for the paper but how are plastics sorted?

How much is actually manually done on a stinking pick line as recently shown on one of the undercover boss tv programmes?

AJH

[John Rumm]

I think you will find he was specifying what he felt was a fair price for his time, not a fair price for the job.

May be more cost effective on any number of levels.

(most of the sorting can be done automatically anyway)

[John Rumm]

Lots gets exported to China for the same reason... goods come in, ship needs ballast for the return trip, and glass can be used there for road building.

[Nightjar]

I am going by the statment made by an expert from Pilkington Glass, describing the manufacture of float glass for the programme Unbuilt Britain a couple of weeks ago, that recycled glass was essential to get the raw materials to melt properly. Of course, as a glass manufacturer, they may well be able to source all the recycled glass they need from manufacturing waste.

Colin Bignell

[spuorgelgoog]

I've moved recently and my new building only has one monsterbin for everything. I may have stepped down the social ladder but it's so handy having one bin that is big enough to take whole storage-heaters and buckets of concrete.

Owain

[DerbyBorn]

[e-mail] wrote in news: [e-mail]:

So you miss the fun of stripping things down to fit? I have enjoyed getting a dishwasher and a car tailgate into a normal sized bin.