Another government brainwave

[Mups]

In today's paper there was a bit about new laws coming in regarding recycling.
It will be covering England and Northern Ireland.

Environment minister, Mary Creagh,  says we will be charged a deposit for any plastic, steel, or aluminium containers, and then we will receive our money back when we recycle them.   

How the 'eck will this work I wonder?
I don't know about others,  but I have a council bin for recycling,  as I expect most of us do. 
So how would we get our money back?     It doesn't make sense.

Perhaps they intend to do away with our bins and make us all go over the tip instead?
But even then,  how would it work?   
At our tip there are usually queues out to the gates already, without having to queue again for a little man who would count all the containers and ascertain the material before he pays up?
And what about all the folks who don't drive and can't even get to a tip?

I really don't understand how this is going to work.
Has anybody else heard about this wonderful new scheme they've dreamed up?   

[Scrumpy]

In today's paper there was a bit about new laws coming in regarding recycling.
It will be covering England and Northern Ireland.

Environment minister, Mary Creagh,  says we will be charged a deposit for any plastic, steel, or aluminium containers, and then we will receive our money back when we recycle them.   

Charged a deposit. !!! Does that mean we will pay a deposit when we actually buy .. plastic.. steel.. aluminium containers..?
Surely the bin men do not have time to check and then work out deposit paid.. Even if they are in a separate box..

When we were kids we took our bottles back to the shop and they paid us a few pence.. I guess that is recycling..
Perhaps we could take our plastic..steel.. aluminium containers back to the store and our deposit paid back to us..

[Ashy]

They just closed our local tip, probably want the land for some project or other.

January 27, 2025, 04:24:23 PM

Perhaps we could take our plastic..steel.. aluminium containers back to the store and our deposit paid back to us..

I reckon that's the only way this can (no pun intended) work. That will impose extra work on the shopkeepers, so I don't think it will happen. Schoolboy or girl politics.

[Michael Rolls]

usual stupidity - I still reckon that the first requisite to obtain a government post it to have one's brain removed

[klondike]

I think I saw something about this a while back. From memory it involved machines that you put your returns in. Presumably they would be located at supermarkets and the like. All very expensive to implement and inconvenient to use so I assume the idea was brought up by Milliband.

[Alex]

They have this method in Germany, I saw the machines in a supermarket where you deposited your plastic bottles and  a refund was given out.  No idea how we'd go about aluminium containers though, imagine the pong of Jalfresi mixed in with Balti if washing them had been careless

[GrannyMac]

Scotland planned to trial something similar, it's been delayed.  Money has been lost, a firm has gone bankrupt etc.  sounds like a plan for us?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yrgzvgld5o#:~:text=The%20scheme%2C%20already%20postponed%2C%20was,UK%2Dwide%20approach%20excluding%20glass.

[Mups]

I think, somewhere in Bristol,  the council are starting only collecting their bins monthly now, too.

We'll be heading back to everywhere swarming with Rats and emptying bed pans out the windows next!

[JBR]

I think, somewhere in Bristol,  the council are starting only collecting the bins monthly now, too.

We'll be heading back to everywhere swarming with Rats and emptying bed pans out the windows next!

I assume that Bristol Council has not given this much thought.

What happens next?  Well, bins will overflow and the streets will be strewn with rubbish.  Perhaps many people will arrange for the Pikeys to take away their rubbish which will then be dumped just about anywhere.  Then the council will be accused of not keeping their city clean and will be out of office before too long.

[klondike]

Just realised as I read your post after replying to the one before that I'm pretty much saying what you just did......

The result is going to be fly tipping which will cost more to clean up than collecting the bins.

I suspect any council starting either scheme is likely to lose the next round of elections. That's if we are allowed any more elections.

[dextrous63]

At last, some potential jobs for the dinghy folk to be getting on with while their hotel bed get clean linen put on, and pubescent girls are actually in school and thus not around to be ogled at....viz recycled goods sorters.

[JBR]

At last, some potential jobs for the dinghy folk to be getting on with while their hotel bed get clean linen put on, and pubescent girls are actually in school and thus not around to be ogled at....viz recycled goods sorters.

Oh no!  If they are given work to do, they will then get the vote and we all know what that means.

Yes, of course.  Another bright idea by the Labour government.