By Natasha Lomas
Published: Wednesday 31 October 2007
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Name
Nick Borek
Location
Bristol
Occupation
IT admin
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What is this odsession with the weight of waste all about? One of the biggest problems is plastic waste, mostly excessive packaging. It is light but high volume. Despite plastics being labelled with recycling codes for years now, there are very limited facilities for recycling. There is no incentive for local authorities to address this as their performance is measured on the weight not volume of waste going to landfill.
I assume these bins will be capable of being padlo...
Karen Challinor
most of the waste which ends up in our household b...
Anonymous
This is nothing to do with carbon emissions. It's ...
Anonymous
What is this odsession with the weight of waste al...
Nick Borek
And they say the education system hasn't been dumb...
Graham Coles
Can the chips be recycled though?
Ian Sargent
Hey Karen - one of my underused skills is Locksmit...
Roger Huffadine
In addition to the issues of bin looking to preven...
Guy Reynolds
And there won't be an increase in fly-tipping of c...
Adrian Carey
Karen, you are wrong...
... You won't need to p...
Anonymous
Has anyone worked out the true cost of recyling ? ...
Simon
How sad: Yet another poor use of technology:
Te...
Richard
Carbon footprint? Is that another name for "EU Lan...
Ian
At our local tip I spotted a hardwood chair right ...
John Hanton
This is nothing to do with environmental issues at...
Radical Meldrew
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