20 Oct 2009 @ 5:42 PM 
 

Rant time!

 

Okay, it’s been a while. I was watching the news tonight and they were talking about the “recycling” program here in London. Prior to today I would not have included the quotes around the word recycling. However, in light of the changes I feel I have no choice. Yeah, okay, I suppose, technically, it’s still recycling some products. The changes drastically alter the type of plastics that can be recycled. It used to be types 1, 2, 4 & 5. Now, it’s pretty much just pop bottles and water bottles. So you know all those plastic food containers that are the above type? Yeah, they’re now uber non grata. So while I used to be able to divert about 50% of my waste to recycling that will probably drop to around 20-30% now. I know, I know – it’s my fault for buying recyclable materials. I’m sorry.

With this latest farce from the City of London, I’m actually glad they didn’t launch a green bin program for food waste. After all, they’d probably screw it up by only allowing non-cooked foods. Or maybe only allow wheats grown in the Canadian Plains.

This latest move clearly establishes that the City of London has absolutely NO desire to reduce waste/divert it from landfills.

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Categories: Local Politics, Rantings & Ravings Posted By: Rob
Last Edit: 20 Oct 2009 @ 05 42 PM

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  1. Phronk says:
    October 20, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    I wonder what the reasoning behind this is.

    I’ve heard that recycling in most places is actually not very efficient, using more energy to recycle things than it would to treat them as waste. Recycling programs are based on the assumption that there will be greater efficiency with future technologies (among other reasons I’m sure).

    Maybe the stricter rules keep it to products that really can be recycled efficiently, so will have a net effect of reducing energy waste. I hope it’s something like that, rather than a purely political or financial reason.

  2. Rob says:
    October 21, 2009 at 7:36 am

    From what the news report said, the melting point of the plastics used in the food packaging is different from that of pop/water bottles. Manufacturers are only interested in the type of plastic in pop bottles. While they didn’t come right out and say it, it was insinuated that all along they’ve collected the food containers and just quietly shipped them off to landfill sites. The guy from the city even went on to basically blame the manufacturers for putting the 1,2,4, or 5 designations on their packaging when there is no market for the material.

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