I am sure that there are TN members who regularly carry recycling waste for processing so is this affecting you?
I was in xyz the other day and you almost cannot move for the stuff. Even allowing for the xmas supermarket backlog which obviously creates a sudden surge the situation was ridiculous, at least 85% of holding parking bays are now piled up with recycling. There is more in the trailer park and elsewhere, some of it is mighty close to offices and bulk fuel tanks. As I understand it nobody wants to haul the plastic because the rates are so poor since the value of the product is so low. The cardboard situation seems to be not much better. The risk of fire is worrying.
I am sure that there are TN members who regularly carry recycling waste for processing so is this affecting you?
I was in xyz the other day and you almost cannot move for the stuff. Even allowing for the xmas supermarket backlog which obviously creates a sudden surge the situation was ridiculous, at least 85% of holding parking bays are now piled up with recycling. There is more in the trailer park and elsewhere, some of it is mighty close to offices and bulk fuel tanks. As I understand it nobody wants to haul the plastic because the rates are so poor since the value of the product is so low. The cardboard situation seems to be not much better. The risk of fire is worrying.
I am sure that there are TN members who regularly carry recycling waste for processing so is this affecting you?
I was in xyz the other day and you almost cannot move for the stuff. Even allowing for the xmas supermarket backlog which obviously creates a sudden surge the situation was ridiculous, at least 85% of holding parking bays are now piled up with recycling. There is more in the trailer park and elsewhere, some of it is mighty close to offices and bulk fuel tanks. As I understand it nobody wants to haul the plastic because the rates are so poor since the value of the product is so low. The cardboard situation seems to be not much better. The risk of fire is worrying.
Are you mystic meg?
Can’t say there’s much risk of fire anywhere I’ve been, plastic isn’t well known for spontaneously combusting and any piles of cardboard are soaked through as well as sitting outside when it’s 0 degrees.
truckyboy:
Could it all not be dumped in the oceans…that should get rid of it…and save us a fortune…
True,but it seems in the last year alone the world is going to implode because of plastic in the ocean…seems to have over taken global warming and the ice melting,is incredibly coincidental that just at the same time the government are trying to add a tax onto everything plastic that is brought by the consumer,odd that.
I am sure that there are TN members who regularly carry recycling waste for processing so is this affecting you?
I was in xyz the other day and you almost cannot move for the stuff. Even allowing for the xmas supermarket backlog which obviously creates a sudden surge the situation was ridiculous, at least 85% of holding parking bays are now piled up with recycling. There is more in the trailer park and elsewhere, some of it is mighty close to offices and bulk fuel tanks. As I understand it nobody wants to haul the plastic because the rates are so poor since the value of the product is so low. The cardboard situation seems to be not much better. The risk of fire is worrying.
Are you mystic meg?
Can’t say there’s much risk of fire anywhere I’ve been, plastic isn’t well known for spontaneously combusting and any piles of cardboard are soaked through as well as sitting outside when it’s 0 degrees.
A.
You must be new to the recycling game then. Any waste company will tell you combustion is a real thing. Especially when directors are on holiday.
Got to laugh at the irony when it’s China that send their tat over to us in the first place, heavily overpackaged that you need machinery to take off.
One of my granddaughter’s had a doll this year for crimbo and the look of shock on her face was incredible when I decided the best way to get dolly out the packaging was to cut its head off.
Maybe we could just shoot the lot into space then set fire to it.
Or just ban plastic packaging worldwide and stop killing my planet.
Yes, it’s a year old, but i’m sure not a massive amount has changed. And surely it’s cheaper than sending it to ■■■■■■■ China.
Here’s another idea, how about the government get off their arse and sort out our own proper recycling infrastructure, instead of just shipping it off elsewhere and pretending it’s not our problem… hmmmm…
P.S… For the tree huggers… yes, they incinerate ■■■■ loads to generate energy… but they use fluffy-green carbon capture technology to avoid ■■■■■■■ the environment. We had that… remember… £2bn ‘trial’… until the gov scrapped it.
seems the chinese can recycle it into other uses…why cant we.?/ we had a problem with tyres one time…now we chop them up and use them in with asphalt…so we do have the brains…just need a few more for plastic…or stop wrapping everything with the stuff…
truckyboy:
seems the chinese can recycle it into other uses…why cant we.?/ we had a problem with tyres one time…now we chop them up and use them in with asphalt…so we do have the brains…just need a few more for plastic…or stop wrapping everything with the stuff…
They can make tarmac with waste plastic to! Same as they mix waste glass in with aggregates as well.
The trouble is it costs a hell of a lot to recover a lot of the waste materials with fancy mechanized plants or you get the NIMBY’s moaning when an incinerator is planned near them which can still turn the waste into energy same as a landfill still does.
But they can soon moan about it over their highly taxed latte’s and plastic bags.
In 1996 your guv’m’nt’ placed a tax on landfill of approx £80 per ton. This was to prompt & prod your capitalist system into thinking about recyling it before sending it to be buried & forgotten about on the spoil heaps of all those coal mines she shut down.
Like lots of fings that you Guvn’mnt, finks of, it wasn’t wholly successful woz it.
If we can no longer send it 1billion miles to China in ships that pump out more fumes than all the worlds other diesel engines combined X2 , then we’ll just have to send it to India then won’t we?
Or failing that, we can ask the readers of ‘The Sun’ newspaper where they fink it shud go
Personally, I think we should just load it all onto the bulkers who then spend all week up & down the M1 with a few complete laps of the M25 during peak hours.
truckyboy:
Could it all not be dumped in the oceans…that should get rid of it…and save us a fortune…
True,but it seems in the last year alone the world is going to implode because of plastic in the ocean…seems to have over taken global warming and the ice melting,is incredibly coincidental that just at the same time the government are trying to add a tax onto everything plastic that is brought by the consumer,odd that.
that’s typical of the government though,they won’t bother to find a way out of a problem they just think ‘‘I know we will introduce a tax for it,make more money out of the public’’ let’s face it we [the public]are a bottomless money pit
It’s simple stop making plastics that cannot be recycled as there are enough that can be recycled to keep us consumers happy, it comes down to pounds shillings and pence sadly rather than a moral obligation to the planet and our future generations.
I know from my present job there are companies making headway in these fields it’s just getting the big players to change to new plastics, there’s considerations such as how does it make the sandwich look? Does it feel good to touch?
