My council recycle paper glass & tin.why wont they take plastic eg: water/pop bottles.?
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I have been reading my councils recycling pages intently because my council will not recycle plastic or cardboard and it is stated because it does work out for them in money, honestly that is all it is about, look on rotherham councils website, its disgusting they say its because of landfill sites getting full yet because it will cost them to recycle plastic and cardbosrd they wont do it!! Talk about double standards.
This is straying of the subject but I have a blue bag to put paper in and leave it out for collectors and they just let the bags blow away because they cant be bothered to put them somewhere secure, when I requested a new bag from the council they sent it through the post! What a waste of council payers money ha ha they should make the contractors bring new bags and then maybe they would go to the effort of putting it somewhere secure in the first place.
I think that councils believe it isn't cost effective to recycle plastic. I don't know why, maybe it costs more, or you can't make as much stuff out of it, but thats the reason I've heard anyway. My local council has started to recylce plastic, so maybe they are getting forced to do it now.
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If your not in a state that has artificial value on the plastic, like the CRV in california, the government wont take it because they cant steal you CRV from you. The other material has intrensic values as can be seen on the comodities trades markets. There is no value for the recycled plastic. You can not recycle plastic soda bottles to make plastic soda bottles. This is why maybe we should go back to glass for the soda bottles, because glass could be remade into glass bottles.
All plastics have to go to ur local skip dealer as these items go to a different parts of the recycling chain..
Change is coming but slowly. Our recycling bins here only used to take paper but now take glass and cans like yours. In the meantime, it's your choice whether or not you can be arsed to go take a walk to help the environment. Anyway, it's one of those things that makes me feel better about myself, so I bag my plastics up and take them down Tesco. It seems to me that we also have a responsibility to ethically dispose of our garbage, whether or not it is made easy for us to do so.
It really does depend where you live.
In Harrow North West London the council collects plastics etc.Though the governing Tories will try and claim the credit the truth is it is a long winded process to set up contractors etc and the work began long ago.
Talk to your contacts in Friends of the Earth to try and collate evidence of nearby systems then approach your council - perhaps by dumping a binload of bottles at the Town Hall steps. They will not prosecute!
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