to not do the weekly recycling??

[ihavenotime]

I have name changed as dont want a ripping in my usual name

We dont have time in our house for the weekly recycling, we have 3 dc,
dc1 is disabled
dc2 just started nursery school
dc3 is under 1.
DH can work over 60 hours a week, so im left by self most of the time and running round after 3 children by myself i dont have the time to farkin sit their and sort out all the recycling in to the appropriate boxs, then wash out tins, take the label of tins or plastic.
I dont have time to pick my own nose let alone all of that.

Anyone else not do it??
Right got my hard hat ready

In your position what I would do is recycle one category of things - whichever you have the most of. I would probably just recycle paper/cardboard - from cereal packs etc etc. No washing etc and just ONE box and no messing.

And then landfill the rest all in the ordinary bin. When you have time, you can start to recycle more.

I've posted this under my usual name as I think it is an appropriate suggestion to help the OP.

Make the most of it while you can.

Soon you will have to do it or be fined and when this happens, make sure dp does it too otherwise it will all be dumped on you.

YABU. Who had got the time. But you could say the same about taking the bins out, or any other tedious task.

Sorry

who has got the time that was meant to say.

Can you pile all the recycled tins/packets by the sink and then wash them all at once? Dry on draining board over night and place in separate bags? It takes only minutes, and paper can go in its own bag straight away - just as quick as throwing in the bin.

Come on really, you are obviously ashamed hence the name change!!

buy some big recycling bags, aldi were doing them recently, or different bins, throw the stuff in there and go to the local recycling centre once a month

i don;t take labels of plastics or tins, jsut rinse the food tins out.

It doesn't take much effort if you just do it as you go along. How difficult is it to put paper into the recycling box rather than the bin? How difficult is it to rinse a can when you've used it?

Ihavenotime, What busy people should do is pay some other organisation to sort it for them. In fact how about if we pay council tax and they use the money to set up a refuse dept to do all that since it would be more practical than everyone doing it themselves

oh wait... we already DO that...

Soon you will be told to get organised with neighbours to clean your street on the same principle. That's the principle that having been paid to do the job the council is onto a winner demanding that people do it for them.

I don't need a hard hat

I feel your pain

Thank goodness I live in Paris where the recycling is easy - there are two bins for normal rubbish (dirty and clean, basically) and the glass goes to a single bottle bank which is a 2 minute walk from my front door.

I used to be sceptical about the quality, but have since read that this is optimal recycling (the type done in California, no less).

English recycling is totally OTT IMVHO.

I don't take labels off either, are you supposed to?

Recylcing round here is really easy - a box for bottles and a pink sack for everything else, no sorting required.

YABU I'm afraid.

It's a responsibility that you just have to undertake. Do the prep (removing labels, rinsing tins etc) bit by bit as you generate the waste, rather than save it all up for the end of the week to be tackled in one go.

I don't take labels off either, we jsut got given 2 bins and a big list of what we can and can't recycle. It's var simple.

Onager, you've missed the point really. This is a kerbside collection whereby the council come to your house and collect the recycling rather than you having to go to a recyclng centre. So, yes, we are paying for a refuse collection service but that's exactly what we're getting.

i some times recycle

we have 3 little boxes under the sink, and just rinse out tins, glass and plastic as we go and put in the box, then dh takes them out once a week. It takes all of an extra 30seconds!! so yes YABU

YABU
if you want a decent world for your dc's you recycle.

YABU and I think you already know it really.

I'm afraid 'if you arn't part of the solution then you are part of the problem' and it is a really big problem that is going to have a huge effect on your dc's lives.

Soupdragon, the same principle would apply to us all cleaning the roads to save employing people to clean them "it would only take a few minutes a day if everyone took a turn"

I'd rather employ people to do it the same as we employ people to police the streets, fix the streetlights and so on.

Your DH has plenty of time to do it. Just get him to do it all on a Saturday morning

easy as anything here.

black wheelie bin for non recyclable rubbish,

green wheelie bin for recyclable rubbish. no sorting.

only crap thing is they only take basic plastic, no moulded plastic. that gets faffy. they do take plastic milk bottles though.

YABU, you really should at least do the easy stuff.

I am afraid YABU, i work FT, out of house 7.30 - 6.30 weekdays, have to come home to look after a 2 yr and teenager, have no dp to help out and i still manage to wash tins and put em in the recycle bin even though it is a pita, i am helping save the planet and doing my bit for our future generations

ruddynorah, they make you sort it into different kinds of plastic? Isn't that taking the piss?

YABU, I think, yes.

We have a box for stuff that will be collected (cans, plastic bottles, paper and card), which I rinse as i'm doing the normal washing up and just fling in, no removing labels - are you supposed to? When it's full I just take it down to the big bin (we don't have to separate it here).

We don't get glass collected, so I use a big bag for that and take it all about once a month when we're going to the supermarket anyway. Again, rinse with the normal washing up.

And one box for stuff that isn't collected - mostly tetra paks which goes to the dump every so often, if we're passing anyway.

It really doesn't add any time onto my day I don't think.