Tea? (Part 2)

[Speicher]

Woo hoo! I will be sending that link to the Pump House. The ones for pens, tippex bottles, etc looks good from their point of view.

I save my toothbrushes for fiddly cleaning jobs, but even so, I must have ooohhh lots somewhere in my recycling depot garage. I already save my coffee pouches.

 

[Arch]

Woo hoo! I will be sending that link to the Pump House. The ones for pens, tippex bottles, etc looks good, and the toothpaste and toothbrushes one.

I save my toothbrushes for fiddly cleaning jobs, but even so, I must have ooohhh lots somewhere in my recycling depot err garage.

We were keen on the pens one - beware. It's apparently (or was when we first looked) only open to school groups (and charitable schools at that). So check the conditions for each brigade.

We've been collecting Danone stuff for a few months now, we thought we'd collect first then then sign up, to see if we'd get enough in time (you have to send some in within 6 months I think, and it has to be a certain minimum quantity). Depending how fast you think stuff can be collected, you can sign up straight away - there are a limited number of 'places' for each product.

We get most annoyed when we find other brands of yoghurt in the recycling!

 

[Speicher]

I can put the "normal" yoghurt pots in my recycling. I think I have about two dozen of the tiddly ones, but cannot put them in the recycling.

Yes, I will read the conditions again, thank you.

 

[Arch]

I can put the "normal" yoghurt pots in my recycling. I think I have about two dozen of the tiddly ones, but cannot put them in the recycling.

Yes, I will read the conditions again, thank you.

That's what's wrong with recycling in this country. We can recycle the little bottles, but not yoghurt pots!

 

[Night Train]

We've been collecting Danone stuff for a few months now, we thought we'd collect first then then sign up, to see if we'd get enough in time (you have to send some in within 6 months I think, and it has to be a certain minimum quantity).

That sounds a little like encouraging people to consume more product to meet the quantity and deadline conditions.

 

[Arch]

That sounds a little like encouraging people to consume more product to meet the quantity and deadline conditions.

That's certainly one possibility.

I think because they only allow a limited number of collectors at a time, it's more so that people don't sign up, and then linger over it for years, and block places for others.

I'm sure Danone are 'sponsoring' the thing for green credentials (as are Nescafe, and various other manufacturers, on the other 'brigades'), but if we can get a few quid extra, we're happy to take it.

If it was entirely promoting a certain brand, they'd have limitless places available for collectors, I think.

 

[Night Train]

On the way over to Adsa earlier, to collect my glasses, I cycled on the cycle path behind the Trafford Centre. Usually I cycle on the road but with the gusting wind and a few close passes today I decided to take the path for the first time.

There was a slight obstruction to the path going there soI took a photo on the way back.
It was the same thing for three of these little turn in's.

 

[Arch]

On the way over to Adsa earlier, to collect my glasses, I cycled on the cycle path behind the Trafford Centre. Usually I cycle on the road but with the gusting wind and a few close passes today I decided to take the path for the first time.

There was a slight obstruction to the path going there soI took a photo on the way back.
It was the same thing for three of these little turn in's.

Brilliant.

<bangs head on desk>

I wonder how hard it would be to get a guerilla group together to go out at night and put bollards in the middle of roads. Get a few blokes with tools, bung them in hi-vis, livery up a van to look like a contractor, and away you go.

 

[Speicher]

That's what's wrong with recycling in this country. We can recycle the little bottles, but not yoghurt pots!

I was talking to someone who lives in Bromsgrove (still in Worcestershire) and she can put bottle tops in her recycling. I cannot put bottle tops in my recycling. Both lots of recycling end up at the same place to be sorted by massive computerised system. I have been reliably informed that the bottle tops cannot be recycled because they are too small and light for the computerised system. I would be happy to take my bottle tops to the supermarket, if they had a collection point like they apparently have in Holland.

Why can I buy black plastic sacks, made from recycled material, but I cannot recycle the (few) black plastic food containers that I have. Not the brittle fast food ones, no I do not have any of those. Apparently the computerised system cannot recognise black.

I have read the terms and conditions of the Terracycle site. It appears that to "receive" your points, the Charity needs to be Registered/Recognised by them. Any group can collect these items and the points or 2p can go to Fairshare, (or another nominated Charity) if the group is not itself a Charity. I think the Pump House has Charitable Status, but it is also called a trust. Brigades can download the prepaid postage label. I think it is definitely worth mentionning to Anda when I see her on Wednesday at the Pump House. We could start one group, and in so doing draw attention to the scheme as a whole.

 

[TheDoctor]

I'm guessing that a tiny percentage will keep 1 for shampoo for travelling and put the rest in landfill. Everyone else will skip the travel shampoo and put them straight in the bin.

I'd never thought of that.
When I stay in a hotel, I never use a whole bottle of shampoo. So I liberate the part-used one, and it stays in the washbag till it's empty, then I start again.
Speaking of hotels, there's a new fred concerning my trip to Epernay last weekend.

 

[Arch]

We use the most sophisticated sorting device known.

Humans!

Of course, we're probably not as fast as a computerised sorting centre, but we're able to be very accurate, and flexible. But we're also costly, and require nuisances like lunchtime...

I suspect that rules are set, and then some rules fail to follow changes in opportunity and so on, hence everything ends up piecemeal.

Here's another example. A council contract the removal and sorting of recyclables to a waste removal comany. The company will only deal with cardboard in big bales. The council are about to install a baler at the market place for the market traders' cardboard waste, but to fit in, and produce handleable bales, it has to be a small baler. The small bales would cost the council money to have removed, because they are smaller than the company normally deal with.

If the council give a small community recycling outfit those bales, free, they can sell them to their waste merchant, for profit, because they deal in skips of loose cardboard.

So small wins. But if we (yes, you guessed it) weren't there, being small and flexible, it would be costing the council...

We like to think of ourselves as the small mammals, running beneath the feet of the dinosaurs.

 

[Speicher]

I'd never thought of that.
When I stay in a hotel, I never use a whole bottle of shampoo. So I liberate the part-used one, and it stays in the washbag till it's empty, then I start again.
Speaking of hotels, there's a new fred concerning my trip to Epernay last weekend.

I read your fred, excellent. I would suggest however, that you might possibly have taken too much luggage.

I particularly liked the photo of the locos, the new one and the much better looking (IMO) older one.

 

[Speicher]

I have just been looking at someone's profile, and noticed they were looking at mine.

 

[potsy]

I have just been looking at someone's profile, and noticed they were looking at mine.

Who are you stalking this time? Thought you had an ASBO for it last time

Soaked tonight coming home, must stop believing the weather forecasts

 

[TheDoctor]

I read your fred, excellent. I would suggest however, that you might possibly have taken too much luggage.

I particularly liked the photo of the locos, the new one and the much better looking (IMO) older one.

My train from Paris was pulled by one of the old-shaped ones
Too much luggage? Possibly.
I could have got by without the extra set of underwear.
And I'm sure the Brompton bike bag could be made a little lighter.