To think pont blank refusing to recycle is anti-social?

[WinterSnow]

Went to stay with MIL last w/e and she has told me they won't recycle as they pay their taxes and don't want to be told what to do with their rubbish they are paying to have collected. Earlier this week I saw similar comments on the Daily Mail website (ahem, just browsing ...) in regard to an article saying people should be recycling food waste. Is it me or is a bit anti-social to point blank refuse to recycle your waste?

[WinterWinds]

We are only allowed to put food waste in the bio-degradable bags or loose, if we wrap in newspaper or it wont be collected.

Also if those bags get wet then they start to go slimy and because the food bin isn't airtight water also gets in alongside the flies, thus releasing a smell....it really not nice.
Even with the caddy thing that stays in the kitchen. I was getting flies laying eggs in the air vent thing at the top because they were attracted to the smell......No thanks not for me!!

Food gets double wrapped and placed in my household bin.

[Crinkle77]

No I just think it's lazy. It's not that difficult or time consuming.

[givemeaboost]

I recycle everything, have 7 recycle boxes that go out fortnightly but will not recycle food waste, tried it when they first started it, lasted 2 weeks but couldnt bear the smell, the cleaning out of the caddy, the kids would mess about with the outside food bin, which is nasty and unhygeinic and it would get maggots and flies, all in all it was just nasty so i stopped and will never be persuaded to try again! I dont know how people cope with fortnightly bin colections though, theres me and 3 kids and a pet and we luckily have 2 wheelie bins(had 2 in nappies back a few yrs, have kept it since) but dont know if we'd fit it all in 1 bin for 2 weeks

[ShowMeTheYoni]

I have a food caddy in the kitchen and a bin for the contents of it outside. Our food is collected weekly. Our general waste, evey two weeks and garden waste and actual recycling every two weeks. We recycle so much that our general waste bin(a small wheelie bin) only ever gets half full every two weeks. Our big wheelie bin (recycling)is where everything else goes, from bottles, to tins, deodorant cans, cardboard and so on. It is easy. What I struggle with is remembering which bin to put out when!!

[GinOnTwoWheels]

People seem to forget its Reduce, reuse, then recycle. There's no point putting effort into recycling when the vast amounts of overpackaging and junk mail is still allowed.

I do recycle, but it really annoys me that there's all this focus on household recycling when big business is allowed to be so unnecessarily wasteful.

If councils/government etc were serious about saving the planet, the ridiculous wastefulness that is junk mail and overpackaging (Boots Gift sets for example) would be banned. Virgin Media send me a big fat marketing envelope every month that I do not want and cannot do anything to stop (they address it to 'The Occupier' to get round data protection/mailing preference service rules).

I also feel a bit about using the precious resourse that is clean drinking water to wash my rubbish. Why can't it be washed when they process it? Surely they need to remove labels from cans/bottles etc and this will get rid of any trace food bits. I don't spend anytime at all with my head in my bin, so I don't care if it smells bad.