Market place recycling?

Question

has anyone else noticed how many cardbord boxes and fruit and veg goes into the bin lorries on market day? I'm sure its destined for a tip. why is this when it could be recycled or composted? why do councils turn a blind eye to this?

Answer 1

i know, its unbelievable! i work in a shopping center and the amount of plastics and paper we just throw away makes me sick!

Answer 2

Hello to our British friends in the Green world of rationality!

Unfortunately, it is STILL just too easy to do the cheap and easy thing, rather than to be responsible.

When I was first employed on the Southern Pacific railroad in southern California, I learned about a dozen trains that our railroad used to run in the first part of the twentieth century.

There was a desert spot near some hills called Declezeville, way out in the middle of nowhere so the smell would not offend anyone.  Trainloads of garbage (not trash) were hauled out there from all over southern California, where it was fed to pigs and hogs.  The pigs and hogs were then shipped to Los Angeles for slaughter at the Wilson factory for human consumption.

I do not know the reason the hog lot was discontinued, but it is all gone now.  The railroad tracks are still there, though.  But I personally think that composting is a better use for vegetable garbage than of being food for hogs to become dinner in our houses and apartments.

It is known that there is one form of vegetable resin that can be used for grocery bags, and it will decompose naturally in the garbage dump.  Other vegetable resins will not do that, and resembles the permanency of plastic.  Only the one kind of plant resin will decompose.  Why are we not using it?

You know, this is like the scam with cellular telephones!  If everyone used satellite telephones, there would be no telephone lines and no long-distance charges or "roaming" charges to pay!  ALL CELL PHONES use telephone lines!  They are not radios.  So with cell-phones, the land-line telephone companies are still making a profit off of our telephone calls!  The analogy is, if big business can make a profit off of our wastefull, un-ecological bad habits, they will ensure that we continue to do that for their profits.

It has been suggested for decades here in our United States of America that we should REQUIRE all commodities to either be recycled or -- in the case of compostables -- to be composted in a "take-back" commercial regulation.  In other words, if you want to buy a new car, you must trade in your old car and the automakers or used car dealers would be required to take your old vehicle for an honest price!  All televisions today are throw-away, but under this proposal, all television sets would have to contain non-hazardous materials and be taken-back for recycling by appliance stores!  Already, with next year's mandatory switch in our USA from analog television to digital television, there will be hundreds of millions of useless unusable analog television sets heading to the trash dump!

Your question is a good one.