Head swimming with trying to Turns out you needn't have bothered, as hundreds of thousands of tons of it end up on the tip anyway.
As I've said, if something is really worth recycling, private businesses would be buying it from you rather than the local council charging to have it hauled away.
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Private businesses cannot decide if something should be recycled from an ecological point of view.
Yes, I said ECOLOGICAL, not blessed-mother-gaia-gibborish. There is no chemical that can escape the pull of gravity so it all remains right here. I know it's difficult to have electricity rationed (Has it happened to You?) But looks like we're on a war against nature here.
P.S.England must remain a tough, son-of-a-bitchin' country that it used to be in order to survive !
Our local county spent a ton of taxpayer money on recycling centers apparently to give people with unpleasant dispositions a job. Don't show up without your boxes folded just so or the little man in the little house comes out and gives you hell.
However dotted around the county are dumpsters where the citizenry can just put any old thing in and it gets carried away.
Harsh measures were recently enacted however to prevent the scofflaws from tossing furniture and tires in the dumpsters, they put up a sign that in essence says; "Hey! Stop that!"
Oh and it says "No Scavenging" which is ironic because that seems to be the highest form of recycling.
Where I live (Toronto, Canada), I think recycling is done not because it is profitable, but because it is cheaper to recycle the materials than it is to pay for the landfill space. We are fast running out of places we can pay to take and bury our garbage. A lot of it we ship to the States. The trucking of all that waste everyday is expensive. But I could be wrong. No one will really talk about the costs of recycling, they just talk about it like it's a moral imperative.
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