Recycling
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There is much kafuffle surrounding recycling, with the realisation that the continued expenditure of energy and raw materials to create useless stuff that does nothing more than contain useful stuff simply can not be right.
That, and the dumping of goods, often containing highly toxic materials into gert holes in the ground is, well, dirty, and finally that message seems to have been forced across La Manche though it took the threat of prosecution from the EU to do so.
So now the British government is tightening the screw with a possibility of 6 differently coloured waste bins to each residence, and the threat of huge fines if the wrong stuff goes into the wrong bin.
Although this does create the most wonderful way of getting even with a neighbour from hell by a midnight raid and a bag of potato peelings to drop into the ‘wrong’ bin, it does miss out on another recycling opportunity, this time the recycling of the out of work.
Put simply, rather than the householder have to put up with a horrid array of plastic bins that look so out of place in decent areas (but add a touch of colour to others) why not have a single bin and use the unemployed to sort the trash in a central area as a part of earning their ‘benefit’ payments?
Regular and more frequent curbside collections, economies of scale, reduction in transport costs from sorting to incineration for some material, and all done at no additional costs, if anything cost savings and a much tidier environment.
Even the partially disabled emerging from the ‘can’t work’ group now that the scandal of the incapacity benefit scam is being unraveled would be able to find employment in some tasks. Seems like a plan to me!
It’s a win win situation. Tidies up the environment in every way, as well as having some worthwhile return for the expenditure of taxes that otherwise are wasted as payments to people to just sit at home doing nothing productive.
Rog
October 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I do not think the unemployed should be viewed as a cut price labour force. If they are given work they should be paid either the going rate for the job or at least the minimum wage.
People who want to use them to save themselves money by paying a pittance are no better than the benefit cheats themselves. Not that so many of them are benefit cheats most of them are genuinely unemployed through no fault of their own..
October 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
The re-cycling industry might well be paying my wages again soon so I looked upon this post – unusually – with interest.
Only someone as tediously trvial as Tog the Terrible would consider planting spud peelings in his neighbours bin. I can imagine you have had a few ‘neighbours from hell’ because living next door to you would be a head start on the road to hell…mush.
Only someone as cruel, or as bereft of imagination would
see the ‘unemployed’ sorting food waste on endless conveyors carrying the detritus of a consumerist society.
Perhaps you could augment your substantial income (alleged) by standing over
the lines of stinking bin-bags with a peaked cap – peak bent down at a fearsome angle over your failing eyes, whip in hand…and yes, we’d dress you in all black and give you a few fancy insignia.
Do you have any idea how you come across on these pages? You sad, bitter vacuum of a man with barely a trace of empathy for anyone.
You’d have done very well in the Nazi Germany you claim to despise. If they had vaunted Jews and condemned Muslims to the genocide that followed you might well have seen the party as an excellent career choice.
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June 30th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Recycling is very very important in order to preserve mother earth.;`-
June 30th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Recycling is very very important in order to preserve mother earth.;”:
July 28th, 2010 at 10:06 am
we should always think about recycling our waste products to help the environment.”.;
July 28th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
we should always think about recycling our waste products to help the environment.,::
October 13th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
recycling is very necessary so that we could reduce the waste that we dump on our environment”":
October 25th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
recycling is a very important thing to do so that we can help our environment:~”
December 21st, 2010 at 6:32 pm
recycling should always be implemented to avoid to much pollution in the environment *~:
December 21st, 2010 at 9:45 pm
recycling should always be implemented to avoid to much pollution in the environment ‘:-
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:52 pm
cool weblog. Gave me a more desirable idea of this industry. Cheers partner
May 30th, 2011 at 2:26 am
Good thinking all around. There is a great expenditure in creating all those oil based plastic containers, and then having to police and punish those that don’t comply.
However, in my area, plastic and paper are mixed together, yet once it is delivered to the sorting area, I’ve heard that air blasts and sensors do the work of sorting, then shoving the correctly identified material into the right chute.