"The recyclables are collected in a separate vehicle to normal refuse and taken to a MRF (Materials Recycling Facility) for sorting." I wonder. I worry that these orange bags are all being piled wholesale into container ships and sent to China and Bangladesh.
When the orange bag scheme was introduced to my area, the bags were unceremoniously dumped on our doorsteps, with no instruction or prior warning. Few people knew what to do. My next door neighbour, who generates 1.3 Wheelie bins of rubbish per week, can't even be bothered to pick up the orange bags from her doorstep. I myself have little to no use for the orange bags, since I hardly have much cardboard/plastic/newspaper waste, and the local street recycling bins are easy enough for me to take these individual items. So I'm generating a pile of unused orange bags. Which will probably have to be thrown away, in an orange bag.
Reduce, Re-use and Recycle is the slogan of Waste Management, these days. But "Reduce" doesn't seem to be getting through to the population of Newham, who tend to be more concerned with expedience and economic survival by their wits. "Reduce" has never really gotten through in its message to people for whom English is the first language, let alone to the varied international peoples of Newham.
I much prefer the saying "Waste Not, Want Not". Although that would probably not get the message across. Probably better to use both the following slogans together "Don't throw it away" or "Don't make so much rubbish".
Try to find a computer to re-use? Or used spare parts? Or just get rid of an old spare computer? Here's a nicely written intelligent article about computer waste. But where do you go to do those things in Newham? They say the Wombles, but I've given up trying to find out what is available from them. I think they call themselves the West Ham and Plaistow NDC these days, and their website seems a bit sleepy in the areas of Re-using and re-cycling. What's going on? The world has become so wasteful.
Reduce, Re-use and Recycle is the slogan of Waste Management, these days. But "Reduce" doesn't seem to be getting through to the population of Newham, who tend to be more concerned with expedience and economic survival by their wits. "Reduce" has never really gotten through in its message to people for whom English is the first language, let alone to the varied international peoples of Newham.
I much prefer the saying "Waste Not, Want Not". Although that would probably not get the message across. Probably better to use both the following slogans together "Don't throw it away" or "Don't make so much rubbish".
Try to find a computer to re-use? Or used spare parts? Or just get rid of an old spare computer? Here's a nicely written intelligent article about computer waste. But where do you go to do those things in Newham? They say the Wombles, but I've given up trying to find out what is available from them. I think they call themselves the West Ham and Plaistow NDC these days, and their website seems a bit sleepy in the areas of Re-using and re-cycling. What's going on? The world has become so wasteful.
