Recycling

Oh I'm obsessed with recycling! I think once you start there's no turning back. In our area we can only recycle plastics numbered 1 ,2 or 3. The lady next door throws anything in and im sadly getting like the recycling police

Or even

Yes, lots of companies offer this, Tricia, and they're made into various industrial materials. I know this because a teacher at the school where I last worked arranged with a friend for him to drop off dozens of horrible old used oily tyres with us one summer holiday "for outdoor play" [shocked] He must have seen her coming! We'd to pay to have them all taken away before term started.

Related to this, is there any facility in the UK for recycling used rubber tyres?
The French seem to be very efficient in recycling, but won't take tyres. We see them piled up in farmyards, or used as barriers.

Have recorded it!

Did anyone else watch it? The coffee cups part was brilliant, although I couldn't understand why he did not tell the boss of Starbucks that someone had made the sort of cups he said he wanted.

Hugh's War on Waste on again tonight. He's looking at recycling this time.

We went round our local recycling plant 12 years ago when it had just had the latest technology introduced. There were men sorting through to pick out the obvious stuff like guns (!) which shouldn't have got into the recycling bins, but after that it was all mechanised - and fast. Stuff pinging about in all directions! And absolutely fascinating! There was a little bit of a smell, but not that bad. If you get the chance to look round, go for it!

I saw in our paper today that the local sorting/recycling centre are having an open day, so we can see how it works. Just the yellow topped bins for paper and plastic and tins.
There was a photo of the rubbish being fed onto moving belts and people standing sorting it by hand.
what a job!
I might go.

That's strange, because there are lots of companies that make recyclable wheeliebins. Maybe you should suggest it to your council.

durhamjen - no the new ones are made of the same material.

sunseeker I love the irony!

Hopefully the new ones are made of recyclable material.

But why make the recycle bins of non recyclable material?

My council don't recycle hard plastic so I would assume that's why yours won't take them.