Wednesday 15 June 2011

the one about recycling

Radio 4's from our own correspondent always feels like a joke. To the point when, if any other reporting seems silly, overblown, pompus or immature, it is noted as being "woah, this is a bit from our own correspondent". I don't know who this programme is for, slightly confused middle aged mumsies?

This from 09/06/11 really made me angry, this is not a subject to joke about. Do not make fun of people who are making a concerted effort to do a good thing, a vital thing.

And South Korea's a country which takes recycling very seriously - it's causing our correspondent there, Lucy Williamson, some difficulty.






The bit to listen to is at about 23 minutes.

This person cannot fathom how to separate recycling and even more so feels it is ok to mock something so vital to modern life (where do you think all the rubbish thrown in the regular collections is going and is it ok for your plastic bottle to sit in the ground for years and years?) and yet they are talking to the world in disguise as a serious reporter.

I think it's disgusting to jest at how some funny folks back in london, the really comitted greeneies, manage to trek down to the recycling bins, crikey, ooh, well you know some people. What a change to have an actual serious system! How unusual!

People should take recycling seriously, it's not beyond even the most challenged person. It is only difficult for those that are disgustingly lazy minded. To put a bit of rubbish in a bin is the same amount of effort as to put it in one of 2/3/4 bins. And like I said previously, if it's not recycled it just going to sit somewhere out of your sight. If you do not want it sitting about in your vicinity then why should you be entitled to send it off to some other place to sit for pretty-much-ever. Horrible. We do have some rubbish, the packaging things made of stuff "not currently recycled" and cat litter which in theory could be composted but is not safe to put in our brown bin. But that's about it. 

wormery from wiggly wigglers but also check withyour local council as I got mine from them at a subsidised price of £10, the council seem to like to keep that quiet though.

I not sure what the mp's who are pushing to bring back weekly landfill collections for those that have collections reduced to every other week are thinking. There is no need. Our 'normal' bin gets taken every week and barely ever has more than a foot of rubbish in the bottom. We have a fair bit of recycling, two boxes full maybe and maybe a foot worth in the brown bin, more if we have pruned something in the garden. Most of the food peelings goes into the wormery (that is still not filled enough to get back to the first tray after 3 ish years of use, yes I moved a wormery and contents when we moved house) and we do eat a lot of vegetable. I just don't understand what the excuse for so much waste is. I believe it is inexcusable and morally abhorrent. Friends of the earth commented on the review that's out dealing with this but I can't help think it's a bit wet or rather that it could be worded with more gusto.

Could we not do it the Koren way and make people buy the bags to put their landfill rubbish and give us the privelidge of using our various recycling bins for free? Maybe £5 per black sack, £10 even? I estimate we would do one per month if that, and we could introduce somewhere for stinky cat pooh to be taken probably one bag every quarter.


stinky buggers

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