dont recycle
I have worked on a tip or as the council would have it 'household waste recycling centre'. They don't belong to the council any more, as they were all sold off to private company's who will run them for a fee. But in order to keep their contract they have to basically do what the council says.

This basically means having recycling bins. But does the stuff in them get recycled? does it fuck. If something untoward goes in a recycling container the recycling centre wont take it and it will have to be dumped on a landfill at a cost of 120-140 pounds a ton or 1400+ pounds per skip. if you work at the tip health and safety dictates you cant go in a skip and get it out.

don't recycle: cardboard. for every person who sorts through his/her skanky rubbish there are ten who cant be arsed to pull Styrofoam from their old packaging. result; cardboard goes on landfill

don't recycle: white glass in the white glass bin. white glass can be mixed with any colour glass but the white glass bin gets contaminated with clear plastic/window glass/pyrex

don't recycle: building waste. at every dump there is a place for soils and rubble. for this people read "any old crap relating to the building trade". result; goes on landfill at a cost of 1600 pounds


there are plenty of people who try and recycle but they are outnumbered by persons who couldn't give a flying fuck . as a result around one fifth of what goes in recycling bins actually gets recycled.

since all this dumping costs money any profits to be made quickly get eaten up. more dumping means less landfill space=more money to dump. this is why in order to stay solvent the waste management company's have to charge the council more every year. this gets passed on to your council tax.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Tue 31 Jul 2007, 17:53, Reply)