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Originally posted by Vazza
Up to writing to local MP/MSP/ (don't know what welsh ones are sorry)

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Welsh ones are called AMs, which stands for Assembly Member afaik

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Stoke-On-Trent varies in which part you live in, mine I had a real hard time even trying to get the box's to recycle with. But they collect rubbish weekly, and glasses and cans fortnightly and paper too in my area, there is a really good dump/recycle centre though which does EVERYTHING wood, textiles, electricals, fridges, washing machines other machines, plastics, cardboard, paint, oil etc etc etc and more etc

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That is simular to my collection and I live in colchester lol and we have a dump not that far away

We just put ours into old like washing baskets and they just take them out of there there was ment to be some big like tubs for us to put them in but the previous tennents took them with them

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Originally posted by MeEtc

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Originally posted by marissa
edit: question about the 'organic bins' in Nova Scotia and Toronto. is that just like banana peels and stuff? just compost it yourself and feed it to your gardens?

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Thats only part of it. A partial list as to whats included:
food waste
non-recyclable paper products (boxboard, etc but not waxed cups)
yard waste, grass clippings, tree branches

basically anything that was once alive, processed or not

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We can recycle boxboard

Quick comprehensive list: http://www.richmondhill.ca/documents/going_green_what_goes_where.pdf

Some key items:

tissues (i have bag after bag of them )
anything that is is edible (bones, peels...)
"animal waste" (dog poo?, but I guess human poo would be okay too)
shredded paper (marks )
very small plants (larger ones go in yard waste)
NOT toothpicks (don't know why)
tampons (just found that interesting)
animal bedding
diapers

I think there needs to be a standardisation of what can be recycled and what can't although I appreciate obviously various councils/localities etc etc etc, obviously don't have the facilities...yet they are the ones that say recycle recycle recycle!

Give the peoples the means to do so and then see if that increases the amount recycled and the amount wasted decrease....I would have said give them incentives but I thought that was going a tad too far

I agree with vassa. I also think that the governments must be the first to recycle and then the people will try to recycle too.

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Originally posted by Basilis
I agree with vassa. I also think that the governments must be the first to recycle and then the people will try to recycle too.

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good assumption, works well in all societies throughout life and teaching, leading by example........ only when it's not the government.

Where I live, we have normal trash, recyclables, organics, and yard waste.

It's really a pain as to what you can put in what bin, but it's really worth it when you think about how much dosn't have to end up in a landfill, which in our case means shipping it to Michigan.

Here's a link to my municipality's  recycling site.
http://www.peelregion.ca/pw/waste/

Well, we've got all trash and yard waste...

RRR.

i think we should. i mean, is it going to kill you if you put your stuff in another bin?