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Plastic added to Shrewsbury kerbside recycling scheme
Tuesday 20th July 2010, 1:15PM BST.
Plastic bottles are to be collected from the kerbside for the first time across Shrewsbury next month.
Crews working for Shropshire Council waste management contractor Veolia will collect the plastic bottles for recycling from August 2.
It follows a successful trial service in Whittington, which has since been rolled out across Oswestry and north Shropshire.
People will be asked to put their recycling in three boxes with paper in one box, glass in another and plastic bottles and cans in the third.
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about time too!
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I think we should recycle old news.
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Yippee – but is one box for plastic going to be enough??? I seem to have more plastic than anything else these days.
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Great news!
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ecellent news!!!! ive got tonnes of the stuff piled up to go, i cant beleive finally they are taking it , i get through about 5 of those 4 pinters each week with the kids and for years they told us it wasnt a priority i am so glad common sense has prevailed!
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there will be no need for that awful incinerator now then
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The amount of bags, boxes and bin outside my house now I think I will have to start charging the council rental space :)
I was surprised the other week to see them tip the glass and tins into the same box on the lorry, what’s the point of us seperating them for them to go and do that.
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Wrong, should have gone to spec savers – you didnt see that dave did you because the council uses kerbside sort and keeps the glass seperated on a different compartment on the truck, although loaded via the same trough you will see it lands in a different compartment
the only mixing is now cans and plastic becuase it can be sorted simply with a magnet
look a little closer next time or read your leaflet perhaps
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ermmm … aluminium isn’t magnetic.
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why not all plastics like in telford and wrekin though ?? surely if they can do it Shropshire can use the same collection methods and reprocessor ??
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i agree totally – maybe they should contract waste collection to telford instead of veolia they would do a better job then!
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horay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I worked for the company in Telford which operate the kerbside but live in the Bridgnorth district and the system used in the Bridgnorth district is more time saving and better organised that what is still operated in the Telford area
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At last, I am thankful and really can not believe it has taken so long!
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why the hell wont they recycle more plastics its the bane of my bloody life i blame the supermarkets really but the council doesnt help with this awful fortnightly collections, sort it out shropshire council! telford does it why cant you keep up this is rubbish and why the hell cant you recycle the lids theres loads of them its so bloddy pedantic and big brother over the top its just a lid for god sake
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Your right and the reason is clear because they are putting all the money into incineration instead
sack the lot of them i say they are clearly incompetent and out of touch with public mood
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The choice to purchase plastics is yours alone. After reading your ill-conceived, ill-written vitriolic rant, I was ready to scroll onto the next one, however I had to comment after seeing the often-used, never-justified ‘Big Brother’ quip illustrated your ignorance.
Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the lids being a significantly different type of plastic to the bottles they accompany, and that mixing them would contaminate the resulting plastic?
Please rant more.
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Vitruvian blames consumers for something which the ‘greenest government ever’ should be regulating.
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long over due
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its a good start but more plastics must follow also bring back the clothing collection that S&ABC used to do! its been cut as part of the veolia contract. i think the big pain for me though is tetrapak so collect them and also now they have the cheek to charge for taking away the old fridge, rubbish currys do it for free!
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You’re deluded if you think Currys take away your old fridge for “free”. They simply inflate the cost of the new one to cover this expense.
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About time, the majority of my waste is plastic!
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Good news.
Yoghurt pots and tetrapaks soon?
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surely this is a good thing and yet you just still get the usual anti public sector comments and moans, what is wrong with these people just be happy its progress
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this is some limited progress but its not good enough, so many other councils now recycle a wider range of materials, shropshire needs to retender its collection contract and expand the range of materials collected, its not good enough to only do bottles when we know other plastics can be recycled, also tetra pak, food, cardboard, plastic bags, batteries, clothing, shoes, some councils even collect electrical items and motor oil, why not in Shropshire?
If other councils can do it why cant Shropshire, they must have budgeted hundreds of millions for that incinerator, so ditch that project and spend it on more recycling instead
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this is a good news story, im pleased
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#16 Huw
[Do you think mis-representing my position on the incinerator helps or hinders your case for the burner, eva?]
You need to READ the posts more carefully Huw. At no point whatsoever do I support the incinerator, I merely make impartial comments on the reasons for the planner’s apparent support and the seemingly pointless excercise of putting it before our well reimbursed councillors. Points reiterated by other posters too, I might add.
I am surprised at you writing posts that could be misinterpreted …
[As a supporter of the incinerator, eva, do you think it offers residents good value for money for the next 27 years?]
Having not, as I previously said written anything in support of the incinerator, I assumed YOU must be supporting it from this statement!
BTW I am also astonished that you do not make your own yogurt Huw! :)
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this proves we wont need an incinerator in shrewsbury then
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Perhaps I should do, eva, but I don’t. And nor do millions of other Brits.
In the 12 months to 14 June 2008, 5,026 million pots of yogurt and yogurt drinks were bought in Britain, according to market research company, Nielsen. (Google BBC ‘Are 1.3m yogurts really binned a day?’ Tuesday, 22 July 2008).
If plastic is being added to Shrewsbury’s kerbside recycling scheme, then why not yogurt pots, if they constitute such a large part of the platic waste stream?
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Yoghurt pots are made from a different plastic no 5 = polyproperlene – this is a special type of plastic which can resist alot of temperature change so used for freezer and microwave stuff – it can deal with being in the fridge all its life – if you used another softer plastic it wouldnt work so well it might crack and break.
Only no 1 & 2 plastic can be recycled in the UK, because they have end uses like fleeces they are valuable, no one wants no 5, so its a chicken egg supply/demand thing, no one will collect it until someone figures out a use for 1.3 million dirty polyproperlene pots a day! Once someone does then im sure councils would collect it.
How about plant pots?
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telford have found a use for them
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Camden Council have details about recycling yoghurt pots on their website.
Why is it OK there but not here, ASIF?
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i keep my plastic bottles in the fridge asif and they dont crack, theyre fine, all plastics can be recycled they are just being cheapskates because more plastic would need more trucks to collect as its so bulky
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Perhaps the question should be why are yogurt pots being made out of plastic?
I’m sure i have seen cardboard/tetrapak style pots.
In fact it seems that much is made of the effort of people to increase their recycling rates – but manufacturers appear to have no incentive to utilise more eco friendly materials.
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#22
So you don’t feel the need to apologise for claiming that I posted comments in support of the incinerator or that you contribute albeit in your small way to the massive yogurt pot mountain?
Instead you contribute more googled data to imply that you do read things properly Huw.
Typical!
As ASIF says certain plastics cannot yet be recycled. UPVC windows for example, are actually unnecessary. Our council opposes UPVC windows in historic situations otherwise not only are they are specified by our council in contracts.
We either stop producing stuff that cannot be recycled or we have to dispose of it somehow.
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Would you agree that other councils are recycling ALL plastics, eva?
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other councils can do it why not shropshire
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telford collect all plastic so it can be done
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great news, now we can abandon the unpopular outdate polluting expensive incinerator
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nice one thats the best thing the council has done in years
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great news for the environment but it should be all plastics
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nice one
its about the only improvement to service since that veolia lot took over everything else has been negative or cuts
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#23 I don’t know Huw, I’ll leave it to you to look up on google if other councils are offering to recycle all plastics then you can keep your yogurt pots on the off chance you are visiting one day perhaps. :)Or maybe you prefer to continue to put them into landfill as at present.
On my information from Shropshire Council they are very implicit that they do not accept all plastics so I hope you have read that properly Huw.
Still not big enough to apologise for saying that I am supporter of the incinerator Huw?
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well its allright for people in shrewsbury but in bridgnorth we get nothing but our council tax has gone up to subsidise this service for others its so unfair
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wicked, nice one
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a good start, id give them a C+ for effort but we need more plastics to be added into the scheme and longer term more materials too also i would prefer a wheelie bin for recycling like other areas do to make it easier to put out
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eva, it seems that all of your contributions on the incinerator have been positive about the financial returns, you claim, the burner will bring us and critical of the alternatives and those proposing them.
See http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/07/12/shropshire-council-backs-shrewsbury-incinerator/ #16
If you are not a supporter of the incinerator bid, then please could you indicate what you thought of Telford’s decision to reject their burner project?
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/07/21/video-protesters-celebrate-as-telford-incinerator-plan-is-cancelled/
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i have participated in several beach cleans in hawaii and i see the impact of plastic every day on marine life here, you should be glad it is now goging to be recycled at least but you must all stop using plastic so much please for the seas sake get a milk man
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What do you think is the most rapid and effective way to reduce plastic pollution, ferdando? Telling consumers to stop using it or getting government to regulate its use and organise plastic recycling more effectively?
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