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Offline Darwins Selection

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Re: Recycling
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2009, 10:02:24 AM »
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2009, 09:48:03 AM »
Quote from: Nick on March 25, 2009, 09:44:55 AM
In parts of Spain, maybe most of Spain, they have some huge truck in the street (about one between 30 houses or so) which is emptied every night!

That is indeed the case. Dumpsters. Ours get emptied twice a week. Large pens for garden waste at the top of every road. Recycling centres on every urbanisation/estate/housing area. Works a treat. Apart from when your rubbish man is on holiday/off sick/doesn't fancy it and then nothing gets collected.

Round our way we have green bins for recycling (card, tin, paper, clothing, shoes, plastics) that is collected ever other week. Blue boxes for glass, collected same week as the recycling. Brown bins for general waste, collected every week. Garden waste is every other week in tiny sacks that you pay for. We go to the tip which is free. System works fine.
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2009, 09:20:03 PM »
"There are currently 20,000 households in Rhyl, Prestatyn, St Asaph, Bodelwyddan, Rhuddlan and Dyserth"

Sounds like about 19,999 too many, recycle them!

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Re: Recycling
« Reply #18 on: March 26, 2009, 09:47:59 PM »
That didn't include kennels  whistle:
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2009, 11:26:55 AM »
We had a big clear out yesterday. Newspapers, other papers, plastic bottles, cans, wine bottles, cardboard, the lot. All carefully sorted.

A big truck has just come and the whole fooking lot has gone in the back with the general rubbish  Banghead Banghead Banghead

I could phone the council, but what would happen? Fook all.

But if I fail to sort stuff I will get arrested by Jacqui Smith or someone  cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:

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Re: Recycling
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2009, 01:26:47 PM »
How do you recycle low energy light bulbs, I am on every buggers list for sending bulbs to. British Gas send me 4 every 12 months, I am not even a customer, Saga sent me some, in beige. The Motability people sent me some, they don't fit anything in the car. I got a couple from Gardeners's World when I subscribed to the magazine, I will plant them now that spring is here. eeek:
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2009, 01:34:51 PM »
Quote from: grumpyoldsoldier on April 06, 2009, 01:26:47 PM
How do you recycle low energy light bulbs, I am on every buggers list for sending bulbs to. British Gas send me 4 every 12 months, I am not even a customer, Saga sent me some, in beige. The Motability people sent me some, they don't fit anything in the car. I got a couple from Gardeners's World when I subscribed to the magazine, I will plant them now that spring is here. eeek:
They're full of deadly Mercury...

Chuck them in the wheelie bin then...  ;)
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2009, 01:47:51 PM »
Quote from: grumpyoldsoldier on April 06, 2009, 01:26:47 PM
How do you recycle low energy light bulbs, I am on every buggers list for sending bulbs to. British Gas send me 4 every 12 months, I am not even a customer, Saga sent me some, in beige. The Motability people sent me some, they don't fit anything in the car. I got a couple from Gardeners's World when I subscribed to the magazine, I will plant them now that spring is here. eeek:

Throw them at the kids playing outside your door - very satisfying  lol:
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2009, 02:37:23 PM »
I called the council  eveilgrin:

Me: I no longer wish to recycle. I spend hours each week sorting stuff out. I want it all in the same truck'  eveilgrin:


Them: You can't do that

Me: Why not?

Them: Um

Me; Well?

Them: We could prosecute you.

Me: FOr what?

Them: For not recycling

I let the law bit pass  eveilgrin:

Me: So why did the effing lorry put all my stuff in this morning then?  cussing:

Them: Um, can we call you back?

Me: NO  Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2009, 03:14:50 PM »
Quote from: Nick on April 06, 2009, 02:37:23 PM
I called the council  eveilgrin:

Me: I no longer wish to recycle. I spend hours each week sorting stuff out. I want it all in the same truck'  eveilgrin:


Them: You can't do that

Me: Why not?

Them: Um

Me; Well?

Them: We could prosecute you.

Me: FOr what?

Them: For not recycling

I let the law bit pass  eveilgrin:

Me: So why did the effing lorry put all my stuff in this morning then?  cussing:

Them: Um, can we call you back?

Me: NO  Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead
I had exactly the same here after crimbo. I rang the council to complain and they said they'd ring me back when someone was in the office.
4 months on and I'm still waiting. Breath wasters, all of them. Banghead
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2009, 03:28:10 PM »
Tossers  evil:
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2009, 03:35:51 PM »
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2009, 04:44:00 PM »
And now: Online booking forms!  Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead cussing: cussing: cussing:
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2009, 04:59:26 PM »
Sometimes I wish I had been born 100 years earlier ~ life was much simpler then.  noooo:

You posted a letter at 0900 and it was delivered the same afternoon.
Tradesmen gave credit as a matter of course.
Newspapers were published three times a day and tea was served at 3.30 pm.
Trains ran on time (and on rails) and one simply looked up the destination in the timetable, took a horsedrawn cab to Waterloo and bought a first class ticket, got on the train and a man came round to ensure your luggage was stowed safely.

OK Maybe I have watched too many Sherlock Holmes stories on the TV but life was not this complicated back then. You had rubbish ~ you threw it away. You wanted to catch a train, someone took your money and a porter showed you to your seat.
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Re: Recycling
« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2009, 06:38:59 PM »
Medicine wasn't quite so well developed though.  noooo:
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