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Plastic waste in seas/oceans
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Where I live, the waste collection is becoming a joke.
We get one large (only becasue I complained about the small) recycling bin that is collected once a fortnight. On black bag bin that is emtied weekly and a garden waste bin that if they detect you have been putting kitchen waste (like potatoe peelings) they refuse to empty.
We fill our recycling bin in under two weeks meaning that we actually end up putting stuff in teh black bag bin that we could recycle. I dont want bags and boxes lying around the place so in the bin it goes.
The garden waste bin is now emptied 50 weeks of the year but only every other week meaning I still ahve a sizable pile of garden waste in teh garden I cant get rid of. I cant get rid of it because our local council have deemed vans and trailers to be the spawn of the earth and wont allow them in teh local tip without paying for the priveledge. On top of this, they now close at 4:30pm dueing the week having not opened until 9am (and never on a Thursday) so I cannot get there before/after work and at the weekend, the queue goes way back down the road blocking off the local retail park. You can sit in teh queue, gradually creeping forwards, for 45 minutes for the privieldge of self sorting your rubbish into specific piles.

I dont mind recycling, reusing etc but the problem is not in this country really. The problem you have all seen on the tv is places like india, mexico, etc where the poeple just dont give a foc and their governments dont either. To them, they think very little of dropping another plastic back in teh street or tipping the contents of their engine oil in the local stream becasue thats the way its done there.

We can go as green as we want in this continent, but when the USA, China and the third world are not helping, even if we stopped using plastic and fosil fuel tonight, the problem would still be there and will remain there until the other parts of the world start to do something.
Another ex-Fazer rider that is a foccer again
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Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by darrsi - 06-10-18, 10:11 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by Bretty - 06-10-18, 10:36 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by slappy - 06-10-18, 11:39 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 06-10-18, 11:44 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 06-10-18, 11:49 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by ogri48 - 06-10-18, 12:12 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 06-10-18, 12:13 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by ogri48 - 06-10-18, 12:14 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by Bretty - 06-10-18, 01:01 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 06-10-18, 02:12 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by Oldgit - 06-10-18, 05:40 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by slappy - 06-10-18, 06:11 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by bludclot - 07-10-18, 10:05 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 08-10-18, 01:12 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 08-10-18, 06:23 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by dazza - 08-10-18, 06:57 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by agricola - 08-10-18, 07:31 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by BBROWN1664 - 08-10-18, 08:31 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 08-10-18, 10:48 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by Slaninar - 09-10-18, 04:51 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 09-10-18, 11:49 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by Slaninar - 09-10-18, 01:12 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 09-10-18, 08:05 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by agricola - 10-10-18, 11:14 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 10-10-18, 04:05 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by mtread - 10-10-18, 06:26 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by agricola - 10-10-18, 07:25 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by mtread - 10-10-18, 10:17 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 11-10-18, 12:42 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by mtread - 11-10-18, 09:54 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 11-10-18, 10:40 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 11-10-18, 10:41 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by mtread - 11-10-18, 10:47 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 11-10-18, 11:16 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by mtread - 11-10-18, 11:34 AM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by slappy - 09-10-18, 05:14 PM
Re: Plastic waste in seas/oceans - by VNA - 24-10-18, 05:55 PM

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