On Sun, 08 May 2016 19:48:10 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 08 May 2016 19:32:23 +0100, "Mr Macaw" wrote:

On Sun, 08 May 2016 19:26:14 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 08 May 2016 18:31:46 +0100, "Mr Macaw" wrote:


I was trying to be environmentally conscious. Throw it in the trash if
you want.
Around here, I would sit it on the curb and a "scrapper" would take
it. One bit of copper may not bring much but when they accumulate a
bucket full, it is beer money

Do they not recycle for you round there? We have 5 different bins collected from our homes here, between weekly and 3-weekly.
1) Waste.
2) Garden waste.
3) Paper/card/plastic/metal.
4) Glass/batteries/anything electrical like the jigsaw/usable clothes.
5) Food waste.

They are very selective about what they take, it is a single stream
facility and I think they end up burning most of it.
They pluck out the clean aluminum, magnet out the steel and do a very
rough sort of the rest. It really makes more sense to burn paper and
plastic in the waste to energy plant than to truck it 1000 miles to a
plant that will lose money recycling it.

Dunno what the costs are here, as the government is probably subsidising the recycling out of my taxes without my permission.

That is always the case. At best it is a make work job for everyone in
that recycling stream. If it made financial sense, people would do it
without using tax money (like collecting aluminum cans and the scrap
metal we are talking about). There are places where scrap paper has
some small value but only if you are near a place where it can be
reprocessed into a product. You would be trucking it past pulpwood
farms to get to a place like that here and the diesel to get the there
costs more than the pulp wood.

Making work for people is stupid. If there isn't enough work to go round, don't create more work, give each person less work. Divide the sensible work evenly between everybody.

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