I sort my recycling.
And it pains me every time. I live in the kind of eco-cunt neighbourhood where people make recycled paper logs out of their carefully-read copy of the Guardian before nipping down to the organic deli to stock up on Soil Association vegetables and bread made of Guatemalan orphaned wildflowers (locally sourced). People carefully sort their drained Fair Trade bottles of wine from their empty tins of haricot beans and leave them in neat piles by their front walls. For years I have felt compelled to do the same.

Fuck 'em. I've had enough. Next week I'm going to NOT SORT MY RECYCLING. Expect to read about my death at the hands of a lynch mob waving (ethically-crafted) pitchforks and (carbon neutral) flaming torches. I imagine they'll compost my mouldering corpse.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 12:42, 15 replies)

fuck me
norn iron has changed if you are there (from memory) since i left
(little lord muthafuckin fauntleroy, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 12:48, closed)

Nah, not Norn Iron
I moved out of there 9 years ago. South West England, mecca for hippies these days.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 12:49, closed)

Pfft, Gloucester Road isn't THAT bad!
My misses lives in Greenbank, now that's where to go for Eco-living, toilet paper recycling, community workshopping, mosaic making, meditating, washed out hippy types...

...and stabbings.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 15 Jan 2009, 13:50, closed)

one word:
Montpelier. Only a thin strip of railway line separates me from the trustifarian heartlands.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 14:53, closed)

,
I live really close to there in Ashley Down Road! Place of the new builds that are falling apart.
(treaclebriggs, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 18:03, closed)

Well!
That is just _typical_ behaviour for someone on this board.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 12:49, closed)

Yep
My local council can go shove their recycling scheme.

I'll consider partaking in it when they abolish the idea of bin taxes.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 15 Jan 2009, 12:54, closed)

I am surprised
that your so anti-social attitude has not attracted more vicious flaming! I mean, it's your childrens' planet you are killing.........tch!
(Pork2311, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 13:20, closed)

Piss off preacher man..
..global warming is not an absolute certainty - far from it - and even if we are at risk then recycling your cardboard/bottles/whatever is not going to make a great difference when there are square miles of oil burning up to the sky in Kazakstan and Saudi Arabia exists etc. If you want to be really fucking right on, go and live in a shack in the woods and give up money. Fancy it?

We're all "guilty" and we will all die, sometime, somehow.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 13:44, closed)

ha ha, I hope to god you're being sarcastic
The children can fuck off and live on another planet.

Or do you really believe there's a benefit to the Designer Eco lifestyle other than the huge amounts of money made by scamming stupid, rich hippies?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 14:52, closed)

Er.....yes
very sarcastic! Although I do live in Islington............but I am NOT a hippy!
(Pork2311, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 15:32, closed)

You can't flame people anymore
It's not carbon neutral
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 19:42, closed)

Global warming is wank!
We can't stop Global warming, it's not caused by us, we'll all be dead anyway (as will my kids and grandkids) so who gives a fuck.

I make a point of revving my engine pointlessly, just to burn more fuel (and to impress people with my growly engine).

PS I don't drive these days. So I make growly noises when I fart to compensate
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Tue 20 Jan 2009, 11:55, closed)

funny really
the people who really make a trade out of recycling (the chinese) have all gone out of business due to an excess stock of materials so there's no demand for recycling at the moment.

if we want to recycle more, we should not recycle, but buy more and more recycled goods until there's demand for more material to recycle.
( schizophrenic_sheep, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 14:56, closed)

Well said that man
However it makes people feel good when they recycle their wine bottle so I guess it'll carry on.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 15 Jan 2009, 17:14, closed)