[Sandy]

May sound old ( a bit) but we used to get chips in our own dishes it we wanted too but that was stopped when weights and measures etc came in, so whats wrong with getting the same weight of chips dropped into a dish of your own, ditto with ice cream, beer, wine (that one started my mum off on the bottle)Pop and milk  bottles had money back or were re used, some still are...........

[shearling]

Maybe we should re cycle at source, unwrap stuff in the shop and put it in thier rubbish collection to go back to the manufacturers

I believe they did (not sure about where or if still done) in Germany or was it Scandinavia?

[Sandy]

Well at least some where has thier heads screwed on, Germany or Scandinavia are usualy good at stuff like that...keeping a B&B we end up with loads of packaging and I hate going through it although quite often people put stuff to the side!!!! I would love some process that turns the rubbish into fuel and filters out bad fumes like you do with water, is it realy that hard to get rid of toxic stuff and if it is, they should start making packaging out of non toxic and bio degradable things more than they do, every thing has plastic seals (hang on thats a mammel) a women on the radio said you can re cycle those and plastic bags like you get stuff in, peas, frozen stuff etc, I just put it into non re cycling stuff as i don't think we have that facility here and I am not sure its cost effective like cans and glass! Oh well!!!

[shearling]

Well folks the place to be is Somerset  We lived up a long lane where the bin men could not reach and were allowed to keep to the weekly black bag (we did our own recycling at Taunton). Then we moved house to a separate bin system, brown (compostable waste - weekly - but never used by us), Big green wheel bin (landfill two weekly), black glass, tins, plastic, paper, clothes shoes. Some areas do not take plastic roadside. They have cut the hours at the local main collection sites but have increased the number of bin collector sites eg at Tescos which does take plastic

[Sandy]

Now if shops like Tesco gave you some form of reward for proper recycling then that would be brill, maybe stuff for schools even or money off vouchers!!! rewards work!!

[shearling]

on the bins it says they give stuff for school from it

[shearling]

maybe it will help to pay their schools stuff rather than do new things for them - someone should ask. However, why haven't other stores done it?