Musings from the Merse
Friday, March 31, 2006
Take Plastic. Please
Although to day marks a new beginning for recycling (and thus saving the Planet) in Hutton and Paxton it is not quite as comprehensively beneficial as Huttonian first thought. Until we checked the hit list for recyclable allowed in the transparent bag we had not realised how narrow a view is taken by the High Heid Yins of appropriate plastic. Only two types are apparently allowed-PET1* and HDPE 2 with their identical Marks of the Beast. This is a big blow for the denizens of the Old Manse, and no doubt, other environmentally anxious households. Our plastic residues are almost all Yoghurt containers from the lush organic meadows of Yeo Valley-a land where GM is a car manufacturer and where happy cows and their tinkling bells willingly give their all to produce proper organic natural yoghurt to satisfy the yearnings of a caring professional middle class (no amateur Middle Classes thankyou very much) eating healthily and careingly whilst reading the Grudian and longing for the carefree days. when St Cloth Kits was in his ascendancy. But horrors.! The yoghurt containers are MotB 5 and join marks 3-6 as not fit for
recycling in decent company. No doubt if you tried to include them they would be ripped out by the Environmental Hygenists (aka Rubbish Collectors, also aka Bin Men) and your shame would be exposed at the end of Kirk Lane.
We are meant to fill a transparent sack every week. We have 52. At this rate of the occasional vitamin pill container and mouth wash bottle (we hardly ever use cans/tins of anything) we will be lucky to meet our quota every 2 months. 46 plastic bags anyone?
*No Bloggee of Broughton PET 1 does not (r) not entitle you to dump one of your cats a week.
PS Yes it is quite interesting to observe what our neighbours do put into the see through bags.
I am quite happy not to blog about that with the right inducement
Although to day marks a new beginning for recycling (and thus saving the Planet) in Hutton and Paxton it is not quite as comprehensively beneficial as Huttonian first thought. Until we checked the hit list for recyclable allowed in the transparent bag we had not realised how narrow a view is taken by the High Heid Yins of appropriate plastic. Only two types are apparently allowed-PET1* and HDPE 2 with their identical Marks of the Beast. This is a big blow for the denizens of the Old Manse, and no doubt, other environmentally anxious households. Our plastic residues are almost all Yoghurt containers from the lush organic meadows of Yeo Valley-a land where GM is a car manufacturer and where happy cows and their tinkling bells willingly give their all to produce proper organic natural yoghurt to satisfy the yearnings of a caring professional middle class (no amateur Middle Classes thankyou very much) eating healthily and careingly whilst reading the Grudian and longing for the carefree days. when St Cloth Kits was in his ascendancy. But horrors.! The yoghurt containers are MotB 5 and join marks 3-6 as not fit for
recycling in decent company. No doubt if you tried to include them they would be ripped out by the Environmental Hygenists (aka Rubbish Collectors, also aka Bin Men) and your shame would be exposed at the end of Kirk Lane.
We are meant to fill a transparent sack every week. We have 52. At this rate of the occasional vitamin pill container and mouth wash bottle (we hardly ever use cans/tins of anything) we will be lucky to meet our quota every 2 months. 46 plastic bags anyone?
*No Bloggee of Broughton PET 1 does not (r) not entitle you to dump one of your cats a week.
PS Yes it is quite interesting to observe what our neighbours do put into the see through bags.
I am quite happy not to blog about that with the right inducement
Comments:
I suspect your spare bags will become a useful (potentially saleable) community resource later in the year when others in the vicinity start to run out because they put out bags with a handful of items in them and the powers that be in St Boswell's refuse additional bags.
For what it's worth - I doubt we'll fill a bag every week either even though I drink gallons of fizzy pop from PETE-1 bottles.
No doubt we'll get pulled up for pre-shredding most of the paper output of the Paper Shop.
For what it's worth - I doubt we'll fill a bag every week either even though I drink gallons of fizzy pop from PETE-1 bottles.
No doubt we'll get pulled up for pre-shredding most of the paper output of the Paper Shop.
if you do run short let me know. My spares will be very competitive especially as the Ebay community don't really seem interested
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