Monday, May 21, 2007

Recycling?

Why do we have to take the tops off empty plastic bottles and "dispose of them elsewhere" before they can go into the recycling skip? What happens when nobody bothers? Can you recycle polystyrene? Cardboard? The plastic envelopes magazines come in? Who has “clean” aluminium foil?

Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 12:17 PM
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Clear waste/used, plastic/polystyrene are heated and compressed into metre square cubes and put into containers, taken to Felixstowe and then shipped to China where the plastic is then used to make ‘Fleece’, then into garments, which are then sold and transported back to the west at a price, (both monetary and environmental).

Coloured plastics through heat and the addition of polymers can be extruded into farm fence posts or window frames etc., for use in China.

RobO

21/5/07 5:31 pm
The Postman said...

and steps at Shep's Hollow, I believe

21/5/07 5:39 pm
Anonymous said...

That's good to hear.
Recycling is a tricky issue, the stuff that goes to China can be justified by the fact that we import far more from China than we export. This means that there are loads of ships arriving in UK and delivering 'value for money' goods and then leaving empty - unless they take our rubbish. The Chinese are desperate for such things.
Another point is that, say, you run a recycling plant. It produces these cubes based on clear waste and suddenly it's got a streak of blue through it. NO!

23/5/07 9:46 pm
Anonymous said...

But why do we have to sort the plastic waste, the recycling company is making the money surely they can pick the caps out?

23/5/07 10:16 pm

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