Manc

Well according to Jenny G we're a bit skint right now, and the Canadians prolly pay us handsomely for the privilidge I expect.

adeshell

Yeah, Celine Dion is pretty bad....

Pulaski

I agree, ..... and I do exactly that. We pay a private contractor to collect our garbage - one four foot high wheely bin per week (and you wouldn't believe the number of bins we see each week full to overflowing, but that is another story! ) and the service costs us $14/ month.

However, we set aside all paper (newspapers, junk mail, envelopes, etc.) and cardboard, cans (steel and aluminum), and plastic bottles (types 1 and 2) and take them to recycling as there is no curb-side collection where we live. The most convenient recycling collection point is just a few blocks up from my office, so once every few weeks we load up the car and drop the recyling off on the way home.

This has two benefits: (i) I only need to bother to drag the wheely bin up to the roadside once every three or four weeks (I sometime wonder what the garbage collector makes of how little garbage we give him ), and (ii) we get the satisfaction of knowing that we have dumped most of our garbage on Charlotte city council!

monster

Have always recycled everything possible -in the UK where we had to take it to a supermarket carpark, and here where they collect it (plastics 1 & 2, glass, cans, aerosols, crockery, scrap metal, paper, compostables..... ) weekly. They just stopped collecting rags but you can still drop them off for recycling. Plus they run sites where you can drop off reusable stuff for non-profit resale -from apple corers to apple macs, dumbells to doorbells.

Brilliant

(and, of course, the 10c deposit on bottle and cans. But why is there no deposit on Gatorade/Powerade bottles? They lie strewn everywhere thanks to this oversight. )

Lion in Winter

Meanwhile, we ship our toxic waste to other countries.........

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/se...Btoxic%2Bwaste

ducatiandy

Yes the UK is one of the places where the US dump their waste, there I believe 2 large toxic contaminated boats being broken down at the moment in England somewhere.

UK must be feeling the pinch of the Iraq war also, next we will be taking the old nappies in from around the world for dumping of the coast of the Shetlands.

adeshell

I particularly like taking glass up to the recyling can. Nothing like violently chucking glass into the container and watch it shatter ito a million pieces.

What a sick b@stard..?

cuckoofrommars

We get all of NY City's crapola up here. Great big landfill about 5 miles away. Suspiciously the entire area has the strong aroma of sperm.

Jan Alaska

ummm dare I ask what sperm is supposed to smell like ?

cuckoofrommars

Before or after eating asparagus?

Jan Alaska

eeww now I'm sorry I asked

cuckoofrommars

monster

But here you can violently throw it into a machine that gives you 10c then smashes it...

joto

Here in MA there is a 5c deposit on cans and some bottles. In our town there is curbside recycling, one week it is paper and cardboard and the next week it is cans, glass and plastics. We used to take the recycling up to the town dump to put into the big containers, but the dump only takes garden stuff and white goods ,furniture and that sort of thing for a small fee to recycle that.

indybrit

I didn't know they did process it.

I thought they just chucked it out into the middle of the road.