What a rubbish day!
By Fleur
@Fleura (32435)
United Kingdom
November 16, 2016 12:39pm CST
Today I spent my whole morning on a tour of our local recycling and energy-from-waste facility. A few weeks ago I spent another morning at a composting and food waste anaerobic digestion facility. I am now an expert in what happens to all our household waste!
It’s great to know that our county is the best in the country for recycling waste and that only 5% of waste now goes to landfill! It’s great that for once the councils have managed some joined-up thinking and come up with some really innovative and forward-thinking schemes. It was all really interesting too; I will have to post about both visits soon.
If I had more than one life I would be an engineer in one of them!
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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16 Nov 16
I can't think of anything more boring than engineering! My county {well, my district councilbreally} is pretty good at things like recycling and compost. I can put a lot of rubbish in both my brown and blue bins that other councils don't allow.
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@Fleura (32435)
• United Kingdom
17 Nov 16
Really? How about accountancy? Although people keep telling me that can be really interesting too...
Now we need all the authorities across the country to unify their policies because it gets very confusing if you go on holiday or stay with friends!
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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17 Nov 16
@Fleura Nah, accountancy looks a teeny bit more fun. Not by much, but it just about trumps engineering!
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@porwest (106348)
• United States
24 Aug
Here, there is a lot of mystery about what happens to a lot of our recycling in particular. Our cities collect it, but a lot of it still winds up in landfills because they don't have the capacity and resources to actually process it. Kind of sad when you think about it.
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@porwest (106348)
• United States
26 Aug
@Fleura I really wish they could find a better way. As I mentioned to someone else on another similar post, it comes down to money. If it's not profitable, whoever is collecting the recycling will do whatever is most effective for their bottom lines even if it defeats the entire purpose.
