Why?...............................why does a plastic bottle of over the counter medicine needs to be in a cardboard box n'all?

Dont even start me off Del. Why, when I buy a pasty do they wrap it in a serviette, put it in a paper bag and then that bag in a carrier? Then they look at you like you have just shat in the carrier when you give it bag and say you dont want it thanks very much.

We have spring water in our rooms for guests, but most organic spring water comes in plastic bottles..Der..its a devil to find in glass

It really would be good if they would do glass bottles, though is it less carbon to recycle a plastic one or a glass one?

moonbells

Plastic cannot be recycled over and over again like glass

i keep my plastic bottles in a big bag and take em every few weeks to a charity skip about 6 miles away. It's a mind-boggling mountain of plastic and that's just mine Water bottles, milk bottles, shampoo bottles the lot. I wonder how many folks bother While ever they can cob it in the dustbin they will do. It's all very depresssing cos there seems to be no push by council to sort it. I had a go at our lot but it's like talking to the bloody wall

The Independent newspaper's doing a campaign against too much packaging - trouble is, only about 100 peeps read it
Bet they still wrap the supplement in plastic though

our council are considering collecting plastic for recycling, they collect glass, paper and tins fortnightly and are pondering collecting the plastic monthly If they only collect monthly I reckon there will be a plastic mountain outside most peoples homes

I think we need a campaign against that and window envelopes

Do you know it's a bugger not having a dog! Had some lovely scraps for the dog at tea. Oh well the birds will get it instead

flammin window envelopes

I feed 'doggy' left-overs to the foxes Wards

Used to get propa milk G2 but they sacked the milkman
Milk plastic bottles can be cut-up and used as pots, then recycled...

Our milkman was a crim so I packed him in as did many others. Police found out all sorts So we switched to supermarket and they only do sterilised milk in bottles which I aint keen on. At least I recylce me bottles though either cutting em up for labels which get used again and again or to the proper skip.

Our milkman used to send his son round to sort out the kids who knicked the milk off the doorstep

Well our council does the lot............plastics glass paper.........carboard
deoderant tins...........tins...........you name it they lift it............thats
how we have an 86% take up on recycling

Think the worst offender of packaging are the IT companies ...

... buy a disc in a box the size of an encyclopeadia .... why ????

I know I complained to Phillips about a toothbrush I got for Christmas - each part of the darn thing was entombed in sealed extruded plastic. I had every knife in the house to it but I couldn't open it. Had to use a pair of loppers in the end. What's that all about. No reply from em funnily enough, other than a holding email

We voted M & S worst for packaging over Christmas, their clothes come with everything bar t'kitchen sink

they can recycle plastics depending on what sort but limited to the use of it as if coloured may only be able to use in same colour or black products

But the worry is that quite a bit of the plastic for recycling is sent to China where it is done under dangerous conditions and the people there are suffering.

Our council does, paper, plastic, tins, garden waste and normal stuff. The amount of fizzy pop bottles I see on the way to work on bin day is scary. No wonder we are ASBO city here. People still chuck out loads of stuff. I reckon our recycle boxes should bebar-coded to correspond with each house. Those that chuck out load of 'dustbin' rubbish but dont recycle should be shot. Bit extreme I know but it irks me.
Also I reckon lottmenteers should be given a special pass to take stuff (not electrical) from the tip rather than burying it in a huge hole.

Bags - I agree about the boxes being barcoded (think I'm in the same borough as you). The family 2 doors away from us don't use the recycling boxes at all - they put out 2 enormous wheelie bins of rubbish each week and no recycling - makes me really annoyed When the council makes the effort to collect your stuff it can't be that much effort to sort it

our recycling box is barcodes chiped and gawd knows what else still i dont use it though so runs of and gets bullet proof vest on psst we have a parkray and burn most of the rubbish so les in bin just ash

Our neighbour is crap - she doesn't use her brown bin and she got as note attached to her black one and they refused to take away the bags she had left out with it - they are still outside over a week later.

A friend in Germany says that over there they weigh rubbish for landfill & charge you to take it away - they are thinking about introducing the idea here:

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Apparently in Germany you can also hand unwanted packaging back to the supermarket & they have to take it