to LOATHE recycling?

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Don't get me wrong, I do it.

But it is up there with hoovering as the most hateful domestic job.

All that rinsing out jars. Trampling down boxes. Folding up card. Collecting papers and cans etc and storing in a messy corner. Putting out recycling box in the rain. Enptying rain water out of recysling box at the end of the day. Fishing things out of the bin which DD has hurled in there.

Top hatred reserved for the waste food bin. Washing the vile bin at the end of the week. Urgh.

Running out of room and having to post excess waste in recycling area in Asda soding car park. Again in the rain.

Wpould love to just throw everything in black sacks and forget about it.

But the rag men do go to charity shops to collect unsellable textiles.
Recycling aluminium (cans) in the UK makes a huge amount of economic (and environmental) sense, look it up.
Recycling Plastics makes some sense, but would be even better if done in the UK, not shipped so far.
Paper is the iffy one, it's harder to make a good economic case for that than anything else. Which is why we burn most of ours, lol.

Confessions of an Eco-sinner has a lot in it about the downstream economics of various types of recycling.

I don't think it is simply a financial equation which is needed to justify recycling. Even if you are a global warming sceptic (an dI understand this group is growing), recycling is about conserving our resources which I believe are indisputably limited.

Ther are only so many trees, so recycle your paper. Same goes for oil/plastic.

What I personally object to is having my collection reduced so I can drive my stuff to the dump, just to have them put my recycling in a landfill or ship it off to china to put in a landfill there. And that's for the good of the envirnment?

I'm happy to recycle IF the council is actually going to have it recycled.

I was all for re-cycling. I still do it. But once I read that so much of it in landfill, and its not fin viable, i have to wonder why i bother. same as last few posters. whats the point ?