Re: waitrose free hire of bike trailers

JNugent wrote:
Nigel Cliffe wrote:
JNugent wrote:
What would be the point of going to the tip (or recycling point) on
a bicycle? Come to that, what be the point in going there as a
pedestrian?

My bike has panniers, which can carry various items. My last trip to
the council dump/recycling point had a few small batteries, an
aluminium pan without handle, some small dead electrical appliances.

Its considered "odd" when the social norm is to start up the car and
burn loads of petrol to do the same short trip. By car, a trip to
"recycle" is debatable in its environmental impact.

I expect to do the same cycle trip again later this week; there is a
dead electric blanket to dump.

Doesn't your local council do a recycling collection (for paper,
plastics, etc)?

Yes on plastics, bottles, paper and metal tins. We sort things to the
appropriate bin.
Some of our paper and almost all glass goes in the village recycle bin
(short walk away) as the parish council then gets a direct cut on the
revenue when they are emptied.

No for batteries, electrical goods, large metal items, etc, unless you
deliver them to the tip.

Compostable material can be collected for a fee, though I have enough space
for compost heaps of my own. Adding shredded paper helps with the "woody"
content against large volumes of grass clippings.


And aren't things like electric blakets (or ordinary
ones) just put in the general compacted rubbish anyway (meaning they
might just as well go in the bin)?

Blanket probably yes. Control gear for it, not if I put it in the electrical
pile (where it should be).



I was down at the local recycling point a few weeks ago - one of the
items to be discarded was a (small) piece of (intact) furniture. I
thought that wood would be recycled specially - but no, (on
instruction) straight into the big crusher with all the rest of the
general refuse it went!

I find such behaviour to be silly - not even putting burnable material into
a power station or heating device.
I occaisionally rescue items which are destined for skips from neighbours. I
recently recovered, with permission, a garden table (required minor repairs)
and a couple of arm chairs (required varnishing). If anyone would like a
rather nice pair of restored Ercol arm chairs, ideal for a conservatory,
drop me an email :-)




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Nigel Cliffe,
Webmaster at http://www.2mm.org.uk/


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