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Topic : Bradford recycled plastic? |
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| Grianan |
Apparently plastic is now labelled with it's "type" to make it easier for us to sort for recycling. eg. A list of types of plastic and other information can be found at: www.brookes.ac.uk/eie/qplastic.htm The government provides grants for running recycling schemes and we have a plastics recycling company in Castleford (LINPAC Plastics Recycling Ltd) so couldn't Bradford Met. set up a department to collect and sort the domestic plastics that currently go to landfill? |
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| Grianan |
Essential information for you to print out can be found at: microsol.atspace.com/plastics.htm  |
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| Fred |
I can not understand if I can recycle plastic in the bin in the car park then why can't Bradford collect it? I don't need to sort it if I put it in the container in the car park, so what is the problem? Since I started recycling plactic milk containers and the like, my weekly wheelie bin is nearly empty. This plastic doesn't degrade so it is not good to send it to landfill. I'm sure it can be made into chairs or something useful so why is it so difficult to encourage us to recycle it. We don't need another wheelie to put it in, a black plastic bin bag (or white if they insist) would do the job just fine as this type of waste is not heavy, just bulky. |
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| pumbajunior |
i dont understand why it cant be put in the glass & can bin or why even though we have one they dont collect it |
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| jonno |
My dad, who lives in Kly, has a small plastic tub kind of thing that sits inside his paper bin and puts glass and tins in it. I would welcome one of these myself, although it's not a big hardship to walk to the recycling area behind the memorial gardens. I wonder actually how many people know it's even there? I agree entirely with the poster above about plastic tho...our wheelie bin doesn't get nearly as full now we take it to the recycling bank, it just takes a small change in mindset to start doing it really. |
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| pumbajunior |
this post has been edited 1 time(s) you dont want a plastic insert they never empty hours weve had it 4 months and its not been emptied once they came today for the papers but left the glass n cans weve ordered a glass & can bin and i think ill just empty the glass cans n bottles at the car park till then the blue ikea bags are excellant for taking a boatload of recycling up there you can order a glass/can bin the number is on the collection calendar if you dont have one ill check the number & post it here |
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| Fred |
I found a few facts and figures about plastic recycling here news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6756559.stm |
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| Grianan |
quote- Is that the car park opposite the Town Hall & near the library in Silsden Fred? |
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| Fred |
Yes, the plastics recycle container by the library. You can put any sort of plasic in the recycle container in the car park. However, Bradford seem to be unable to collection from households. Unless you take plastic to the car park the only alternative is to put it in your weekly rubbish which then goes to landfill. This doesn't seem like a very good idea to me because not much of the plasic is biodegradeable. I'm sure if they started household collections of plasic the landfill portion of our weekly rubbish collection would fall dramatically. Perhaps we could have a local communial bin for plastic rather than yet another wheelie bin? |
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| Grianan |
I've just come back from holiday in France (Chamonix) and they have recycling 'bins' located in each small area rather than individual wheelie bins. - much more convenient than one bin for the whole of Silsden (and beyond!) These 'bins' are much larger than they appear since they are dug into the ground, about 3m diameter by 4m deep(?). - I guess the container is lifted out and emptied by a special truck although I didn't witness this. They are also contained within a wooden surround so that they are not an eyesore. (I wish I'd taken a photo of them now!)  |
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| hermione fraggle |
quoteI take my plastic up to the car park too. I am not sure I have enough room for another wheelie bin, I already have 3 of the things which look a bit of an eyesore at the front of the hous, but I don't have a rear yard to put them in. The main problem I have is with the recycling bins never being collected. |
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| pumbajunior |
yes they can be a problem with not collecting but at least we have the glass n can bin now not the incert that filled too quickley |
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| Peter |
Ever wondered what BradMet do with all the recycled items? In 2004/2005 265 tonnes of Plastic Bottles were sent from BDM to Liverpool where they were Washed, flaked and exported to China. And as for the rest of the items I extracted the following page with the details: silsden.net/news/2007/Bradford-recycling-2004.pdf Details were found in Waste Management Stategy (2005 document) www.bradford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3EDC9879-8655-4A47-AFC0-A528D129DF59/0/WasteStrategyApproved.pdf |
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