TBH I think by owning a Subaru we pretty much undo any recycling we might do.

 

Actually somebody did a study recently, and over the full lifecycle, i.e. including metal extraction and production of the base materials through to what can be recycled at the end of their life, a Hummer worked out to be more environmentally friendly than a Prius.

 

That's the problem now Olly. The whole green debate has been hijacked by politicians and vested interests touting crap and taxing everything in existence whilst completely ignoring the facts. Land Rovers get a bad name from an environmental standpoint and yet around 70% of them are still going strong and yet a Toyota Pious will probably only last ten years despite its debatable environmental credentials.

 

^^^ is that a joke or for real?!?

 

What's your point? You're aware of LCA and the WEEE Directive aren't you?

 

I don't have a point. I'm asking a question. I guess therefore my point is to further my knowledge.

 

Only thing I recycle is bottles because I dont like the idea of 24 bottles of grolsch sat in the bottom of my bin bag so they go back in the box and down to the bottle bank when theyre all done everything else goes in the normal bin. If my council still cant be bothered to give me a wheelie bin then **** it

 

Well, then can you be more succinct as I don't know what question you're asking?

 

Yes you may be right but according to the Government, who are pro aviation and refuse to give it fair taxation, just one foriegn holiday a year accounts for 12% of your yearly carbon emissions, the same as running a band E car.
Anyone who has a couple of holidays and does a few bussiness trips a year will have more than double the emissions as someone who doesn't fly(whether they have energy saving lamps fitted at home or not).

Cheers
Lee

 

If you're referring to the Prius / Hummer example, it's here:
The Recorder

 

I now have a plethora of different bins of different sizes and different painted trucks come and empty different bins on a different day. If they added someone who blew a whistle or rang a bell, I'd start to think I was part of a gigantic pavlovian psychology experiment....

Main gripe I've got is I have too many different shaped boxes and no space to put them. I will NOT leave them in the house or the porch or too near the front door as they smell, especially in the summer.

We have alternate domestic rubbish and recyclables collection weeks. So cr*p could be in the bin for up to 14 days before it's collected.

J.

 

Cheers Olly, that's what I was asking

 

What a sensible post

We recycle glass, paper, tins (beer and other) and some plastics. Have 50/50 CFL/GLS lamps, loft insulation to 250mm and are reasonably good at turning things off.

However we run a PC with a 500W PSU, two cars (one a scoob) and wife and child probably fly to Sweden 4 x per year (To see her parents).

prob above average emissions due to the flying

 

How about your neighbours - do they recycle?

 

Paul - are you trialling some new government scheme where we now have to watch our neighbors and inform ...errr...report on them ?

Its reclying bin tomorrow - I'll go and have a good root through the neighbors bins in a moment. Do you want pics ? or just the highlights ?

 

I live in Holland and we're all green here in relative terms. We've got three wheelie bins; a green one for plant and food waste, a blue one for paper and the big black one for regular household waste. Green and Black bins are emptied on alternate weeks and the blue one monthly only. You have to take glass and metal have to take to the bottle bank yourself. Deposits on 1 1/2 litre plastic bottles and all beer bottles mean you do eventually bother to take them back.

The neighbours all do the same.

 

Over at NBO hq
we have 4 recyling bins provided by the council which we take pride in filling correctly
we have energy saving bulbs,full insalution and nothing on standby

all garden waste is composted and we regulalry have bonfires to burn lots of waste so harming the env

All our scrap food goes straight to our chickens so no waste there as they wander round the garden

Downside is 3 cars including my fully decatted scooby and 3 holidays abroad by flying including one long haul to Asia to our villa but again we recyle by taking suitcases full of old clothes to hand out to the misses relatives

 

I used to have a single free flow cat in the tail pipe of my Sti Classic which enabled it to pass the emissission test with flying colours up to modern standards but which would be good up to 400 BHP without significant restriction to exhaust flow!

Les

 

LOL!

I expect (and i do mean expect) a full itinery broken down into sections and then a page or two of your thought and reccommendations.

My neighbours eacxh side of us just do not put out any of the bins and boxes except a full to (and usually) overflowing black general waste disposl bin.

 

Funny this, my neighbours just had 2 new wheely bins dropped off by the council, (the normal green ones for usual rubbish) I would have thought the council would have taken a second thought on this
They put there blue bin out once a blue moon!

I try to keep my family inline with chucking plastics in the bin, i even pull plastics i see in the kitchen bin... yes i'm a sad bin raking c*nt