Recycling facilities

[Tina]

I have been disappointed at the lack of recycling facilities in the Seil/Luing/Easdale area over the past 7 years. I am aware that some facilities are proposed for the future, but are there any like minded people who would like to explore the possibility of setting up a small facility in the interim?

[wasseventhseil]

I hear they are going to biuld a re-cycling plant on Easdale Island,right in at the Rushin,Gush.Would that be convenient for you????????

[Pentlandpirate]

I thought I would make a New Year's resolution and try this recycling thing. But what a pain.

Is it beyond manufacturers and producers to come up with a simple recycling code, like, A, B, C, D, etc? If they adopted a common code and say a plastic bottle had a small A moulded on it I would chuck it straight in bin A without any need to think is this soft plastic or hard plastic, or one of those ones that can't be recycled. If it was cardboard food packaging it might have a B on a red background and it woiuld go straight in the red bin with a big B on it. I might decline to buy a 'microwave meal' at Tesco with packaging showing A & B on it inpreference to one that shows just an A....presumably simpler and more efficient to recycle, thereby putting an incentive on manufacturers to give us more user friendly packaging to recycle.

Where is the incentive to recycle at the moment other than a questionable moral one? Your average quarry has always made an ideal place to dump your rubbish!

How is everyone else getting on with recycling?

[NickB]

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Less packaging in the first place is surely part of any sensible approach . . .

A friend's child recently produced a packet of sweeties where each sweet (something resembling a liquorice allsort in the shape and colourings of a mini burger!!) had its own hard transparent plastic clip-together shell.

Utter madness!

-- NickB

[Pentlandpirate]

Is Canusmellthat a beardy environmentalist?

[canUsmellthat]

PP, all you've done this year is moan and complain! Lighten up and enjoy the snowflakes!!!

[Seventhseil]

Does recycling make money?
If so why is it not more prevalent??
Why is dumping stuff so difficult at the local tip, why there are some people who dump broken toilets on "public amenity" land on our unspoilt countryside.