Confused.

[colnerov]

I've just been down to Waitrose for a bottle of milk, the woman on the till volunteered the following information. The white cap on the top was recyclable because the previous green ones weren't.

So the green ones weren't green and the white ones were now green.

Colin

 

[Blobber]

I have to say Ive just about given up being too precious about recycling it seems more and more stuff isnt recyclable, we always have a full recycling bin so its not all going in the rubbish!

 

[pedrobedro]

What if you want full fat blue top ?

 

[colnerov]

What if you want full fat blue top ?

Stop asking awkward questions.

 

[caprinut]

I think it's less about the plastic it's made of or the colour, more about the fact it is small and round so can jam the chopping machine up. Best to crush the bottle and put the cap back on it will go then.

Bert

 

[knighty]

I saw a TV program about this once.... bin men were refusing to empty peoples recycling bins if they could see any milk bottle lids, because the council said they weren't recyclable

TV crew plus the guy from the council in charge of recycling went to visit the recycling company the council contracted in to see if there way any way to use the lids....

they met a very confused recycling factory manager, he said - the lids are the best bit of the milk bottle, they're the most valuable - council guy tried to cover his **** saying they're a different kind of plastic and need separating out

"no not at all" said the factory manager... and showed them the machine right behind him - plastic was poured into it and ground up, fed along a convey belt, as it fell off the conveyor belt it was watched by cameras which triggered tiny jets of air to blow the different kinds of plastics off at different heights and into different bins

council guy was pretty red faced

TV presenter and recycling factory manager were trying not to laugh :-o+

 

[Johnnybravo]

I think it's less about the plastic it's made of, more about the fact it is small and round so can jam the chopping machine up. Best to crush the bottle and put the cap back on it will go then.

Bert

Both the cap and the bottle are HDPE.

 

[roofman]

Me and my missus have more arguments than sense over this recycling thingy and i have now gave up trying to save arctic cockroaches To me cardboard is cardboard and plastics are plastics, but No.. there is about 5 variety's of both and that goes for glass too so i let her do it now to save the marriage

 

[Nomad]

I visited mum many years ago and she was carefully cutting the plastic windows out of the letters she'd received, the nice man from the council had sent out a leaflet saying the paper could be recycled but the plastic couldn't - so had to be seperated before it went in the bin / recycle bin.

 

[Robotstar5]

I visited mum many years ago and she was carefully cutting the plastic windows out of the letters she'd received, the nice man from the council had sent out a leaflet saying the paper could be recycled but the plastic couldn't - so had to be seperated before it went in the bin / recycle bin.

I do the same with the boxes that have a plastic "window", I tear the plastic out and put it in the plastics bin and the rest of the box goes in the cardboard bin, can you tell I'm old, retired with nothing better to do?

 

[frank horton]

here,
any kinda plastic bottle cap is saved for recycle.....
apparently they make sweatshirts and fleeces with the plastic.....

that will change this year the Gov say there will be a charge on ONE use plastic bottles, that will get a refund for returning them to the supermarket.....
Right now the machines are in some already...her indoors say they make a grinding noise when used....
Think it's 10 cents a bottle return....
plus there's now a refund on some makes of glass beer bottles....

so I guess the cold Africans will have to buy their own fleeces now.....hahaha,,,

 

[Johnnybravo]

…Like the Africans wear fleeces .Just like there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas.
I really love that one, seeing December in Africa is mid Summer

 

[Johnnybravo]

Me and my missus have more arguments than sense over this recycling thingy and i have now gave up trying to save arctic cockroaches To me cardboard is cardboard and plastics are plastics, but No.. there is about 5 variety's of both and that goes for glass too so i let her do it now to save the marriage

Let’s not go there. Possibly our wives are related

 

[Mr Fro]

Me and my missus have more arguments than sense over this recycling thingy and i have now gave up trying to save arctic cockroaches To me cardboard is cardboard and plastics are plastics, but No.. there is about 5 variety's of both and that goes for glass too so i let her do it now to save the marriage

Hold on... You tried to so the right thing and got moaned at for doing the wrong thing... In a marriage?

I find that incredibly hard to believe.

 

[roofman]

Hold on... You tried to so the right thing and got moaned at for doing the wrong thing... In a marriage?

I find that incredibly hard to believe.

next time i am going to marry a man..at least you can give him a ligament sharp left hook to the chin

 

[qwakers]

ligament?

 

[Barking Mat]

I've forgotten what you're confused about after all of that.

Oh yeah, milk bottle tops.

Recycling bin, gets recycled, allegedly.

Other more pressing problems.

 

[roofman]

ligament?

spotted earlier but missed the edit deadline...spellcheck put me on a bum steer

 

[armalites]

What if you want full fat blue top ?

Is there another kind? We only ever have full fat. I do find it amusing that people think they are going to lose 5lb a week buy using semi skimmed in 4 cups of tea and some cereal.

 

[bricol]

Is there another kind? We only ever have full fat. I do find it amusing that people think they are going to lose 5lb a week buy using semi skimmed in 4 cups of tea and some cereal.

Stop being amused and find the most publicised reason - whole milk has a whole lot more saturated fats than skimmed - the advice has been to avoid saturated fats as they raise cholesterol levels and the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

I come from a long line of farmers, where milk came in one variety at the table - warm, thick, with bits floating in it - and some of the bits had a suspicious dark look about them . . . in that long line were a large number of strokes . . .

Semi-skimmed goes in my tea, coffee and over my cereal, giving me more leeway under the recommended daily limit of saturated fats to enjoy other crap with them in.