Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
27 February 2010
18:1941491Bob, I`d have viewed the wine bar in the light of, if you don`t collect them, I`ll pop them all in the local glass recycling bins, causing them to fill quicker, whereby more collections will be required, which could be equally, if not more costly. One for the mathematicians out there.... Vic, what bought this on was the fact of someone with a hacksaw up the Great Central preserved railway at Loughborough, going there in the night and sawing the copper pipework off one of the large steam locomotives up there. They may have got tens of pounds worth of copper for scrap, but the cost to the locomotive owner`s to replace all that pipework will be in the hundred`s of pound`s to replace.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
27 February 2010
18:5941493Yes copper scrap is very good Colin I was working in a very well know shipyard some years ago and the ground workers were geting £1000s for copper scrap they cut it up at nights when eveyone went home got a lorry or two in and away with it cash in hand. I was not one of them I am sorry to say but a welder.
27 February 2010
19:0841495Colin, the problem is not with the taking away, which my friend is happy to pay for. It is why it is a 'good idea' for you and I to have a few bottles a week picked up and recycled, whilst if many bottles are collected (from the wine bar) they go to landfill.....
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,304
This was attached to my email reminder about the black box collection. I often wondered what happend to the recylcing and where it went.
"What happens next to black box contents ..... After collection it is taken to Richborough, when containers are full they are transported to a sorting facility where it's tipped on a conveyor to a large meshed rotating drum the glass crumb falls through and is collected. A magnet lifts off tins followed by an eddy current to remove the aluminium. This leaves plastic bottles and any contaminants. A team of people remove plastic bags, glass too large for the mesh and unwanted plastics. Plastic bottles are left on the conveyor. The plastic is shredded into a water tank, the plastic bottles with lids only partly shred and sink, the shredded bottles without caps float. The shredded plastic is skimmed off for recycling whilst the material that sank is landfilled."
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Thanks Terry.
There seems to be almost as much energy spent recycling the stuff, as the end result benefits.
Roger
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
- Posts: 345
How's this for a perverse situation:
I had a rather large piece of exercise equipment delivered last Friday, thought I would save myself the trip to Whitfield to take the cardboard it came in, as I knew the recycling would be collected on Monday. I put said cardboard out on the pavement on Monday morning, returned that evening to find it still there. I emailed waste services who said it was too large so if I leave it out with my domestic waste it will get collected then ( and therefore not recycled).
