On 25/03/2018 11:37, NY wrote:
"Fredxx" wrote in message
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On 25/03/2018 11:10, NY wrote:

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It is fine to encourage people to recycle more, but all households
generate a certain amount of waste on average, and it all needs to be
removed - whether in the normal bin or the recycling bin. There seems
to be a school of thought that we should magically produce less
waste, even of the recyclable type.

If it modifies your behaviour to reduce waste and recyclable matter,
it all sounds a good thing.

I'm all for encouraging people to recycle rather than landfill, by
carrot rather than stick by making it easy to recycle rather than
difficult/costly to landfill. But expecting people to reduce the *total*
amount of waste is ludicrous. If something comes boxed, you have to get
rid of the box - and you don't have the option of saying "supply this
item in clean, pristine, undamaged condition but with less packaging" -
the packaging is the means of making sure the item is clean/undamaged.

Then modify your buying habits to include items with less packaging or
suffer the consequences and so we suffer your moans.

I have never had an issue with size of bins, even when our children have
been in disposable nappies.

If this is making you consider your lifestyle choice, so be it. It can
only be a good thing.