What are the councils doing to encourage people to recycle in your area? My local council is very good compared to others I've heard. It seems ridiculous that in some places there is no facility to recycle plastics or cardboards. Surely it can't be that hard to set up a few recycling bins for each type of material across the county.

I was speaking to a friend the other day, and he said he met a young couple at the recycling bins who had bag fulls of pastics and cardboard, but when they had got there realised there was no bins for these materials so had to throw them all a way. What a waste!

This post was last modified: 21-04-2007 09:54 AM by Xeract.

I can't contribute much to this, as it is rather too local...

Kingfisher

We have grey bin for refuse,white sack for paper,green bin for garden refuse & we did have green boxes for cans, plastics,aerosols etc but last week I got a full sized burgundy wheelie bin in place of the boxes which is great.
I have been told that we can now use green boxes for cardboard but if we cannot we take them to the refuse tip where they recycle everything.

Our local council is very good. We have all been given green and purple boxes which allow us to recycle cardboard, paper and cans. These are collected and emptied every week. We have also been given special purple bags for clothes that we no longer want to give to charity. However I have noticed that there are very few other councils who are encouraging recycling as much.

We are not offered clothing recycling here where I live, but because the US tax code encourages it, many people here recycle clothes at Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc. The donator expects a receipt for the 'value' of the used goods, and will use that to deduct the donation.

Kingfisher

Now that's a good idea. We do tend to clothes , shoes & glasses to charities & for a deduction in tax that would encourage more people.

That's a great idea, I hope the british government looks into something like this in the future. We already try to take our clothes and books down to the local charity shop, but a tax deduction would definitely encourage more people.

Unfortunately, the deduction only occurs when one 'itemises' the tax return. It used to be that charitable contributions were deductible no matter what, but that changed about 15 years ago.

Doesn't matter to me, I still contribute to charity, and I still recycle what I can!

Kingfisher

Our council - High Peak, picks up our cans, bottles and paper every fortnight.

While I can understand their reluctance to collect plastics - there are so many different types, even in supermarket bags, that recycling is an absolute nightmare - I fail to understand why they don't take cardboard

They don't ?

Cardboard/paper is one of the easiest things to recycle...strange.  Have they ever given a reason why?

Kingfisher

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