plastic bags

Hi folks and thanks for all your responses. I am going to post the email I received, it is really eye opening and informative and makes you really, really want to do something to stop it. Bear with me, I need a bit of help. I am computer illiterate!
Meanwhile, what do you think about buying, say 4 pears all in a shaped plastic package with cling film over the top, to find out that none of it is acceptable locally, for recycling? Also any food packaging say from minced beef or chops, we can't recycle those either, it is all such a mess! Is it just Hampshire where there is confusion about what can or cannot be used, even when it shows on the package 'the recycle stamp' Jan

 

No plastic reycling here, bar carrier bags and milk bottles at tesco.

My weekly rubish consists of one half full bin bag of plastic, everything else is reycled.

Houeshold plastics though are the thin end of the wedge, farmers burn tons of plastic waste each year and warehouses, shops etc create mases of it........

 

Hi link for those interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9PC8s-r2Q

 

Hi landlubber. I am in east hants and they are pretty strict here on recycling. we can do milk cartons and some plastics. Basically, I re-cycle any plastic that has the circular sign on it. If it has the triangular one I don't recycle. I have probably got it wrong but....

I have the co op bags for life. they are pretty good. Made of fair trade cotton.

I really get annoyed at the way supermarkets have been so quick to charge for plastic bags but they still sell goods packaged in non re-cyclable plastic.

 

Our council recycles everything apart from plastic, which seems ashame as there is so much plastic waste these days.

 

The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan





America is, apparently, reluctant to do anything about this which is partially within their territory and thus nominally a 'land mass', until they can figure out how and to whom to apply the taxes that will pay for the work to clean it up !!


Floating toxic plastic garbage island twice the size of Texas




Apparently there are times, when the tides are right, that a man can actually walk on these islands.
It is thought that in time, a solid "land mass" will be created all the way from Hawaii to Japan.

 

Isn't it sickening, as if the world doen't have enough to contend with, with natural disasters etc. we have such horror stories about pollution?
What hope is there for the defence of wildlife when so many humans are indifferent in their actions towards Mankind? I am sorry I started this, it is getting me depressed! Jan

 

Morning Jan,

There is hope, at least I can smell change on the wind. Now when we are so close to change we have to be brave, impervious to critics-( after all I think even Jesus got a bit of flak ) and force the message home.

Fight the good fight and all that.

 

Morning Claire,
Yep you are right again! X
Just that it is absolutely chucking it down outside, meaning a later start to my day when it is like this, lots of loafing about before I get going. I am downing the first coffee brought by hubby, very soon I will emerge, brighter. (bit like a chrysalis!)
Seriously, I agree there is hope on the horizon, people are becoming more aware at least here in the Uk. When we were away living on the boat in Italy, we watched a Police car, parked by a road, open it's windows and just chuck out food wrappings from something packed like fish and chips, and cans etc, Italy are a long way behind, and need lots of educating on the subject. Also everywhere we sailed to, every single day in 4years , there were plastic bags floating, Jan.

 

Your husband brings you a coffe in the morning? And you live in the New Forest?


I used to like you , now it is pure envy.:D

 

Claire, It is still raining though! Jan

 

Same here sweetie, just think how green it will look when it stops finally.

Have a good day though, if you can of course LOL

 

You too! X jan

 

That is my point, 'I have probably got it wrong'.

I am told that if one item is wrong in the bag and visible from the outside, the whole bag is trashed. I assume like everyone else, we have had various bits of paper telling us what is and isn't acceptable, all of them seem to conflict and no-one I speak to around here is 100% sure.
My daughter lives in Somerset and they take everything away there on a weekly basis, brown bin for leftovers etc.
Some areas (Cheshire) get their glass collected. and other places I have hear of get garden clippingscollected weekly, all 'free' (yeah a whole new thread topic!)
We take all grass clippings to the tip, also bottles and jars.
We get collected, general rubbish in Black bags, newspapers and flat-packed cardboard, and a see through sack for recycling, cans, cardboard loo rolls, baco foil and anything marked with a circle.
Frustratingly there is 3 times as much in a black bag as in the see through one each week, I wish it was the other way around? Jan