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Jul 2018
8:44pm, 3 Jul 2018
20,768 posts
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Red Squirrel
Ecoleaf sell toilet paper in compostable wrap.
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Jul 2018
10:25pm, 3 Jul 2018
14,811 posts
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Carpathius
Nice Sigh and Gus 
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Jul 2018
10:26pm, 3 Jul 2018
14,812 posts
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Carpathius
Ooops, wrong thread. BRB...
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Jul 2018
12:39pm, 4 Jul 2018
1,568 posts
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cackleberry
Ok so my question is, now we know the plastic we thought we were sending to be recycled s actually escaping/being dumped in the environment, what are we supposed to do with the plastic we have already got?
More annoyingly, it's taken me years to get the OH to acknowledge the recycling bin, now it turns out he was right all along!!
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Jul 2018
4:26pm, 4 Jul 2018
3,587 posts
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TeeBee
Good question *waits with interest for the reply*
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Jul 2018
10:03pm, 4 Jul 2018
1,113 posts
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beebop
Thanks for the link, silvershadow.
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Jul 2018
4:15am, 5 Jul 2018
3,154 posts
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run free
cackleberry some councils create furnaces to burn the stuff. They call it energy recovery and say it is "recycling". Up North they were sending it to Sweden to burn. Otherwise send it to some other developing country like indonesia and close our eyes.....create buildings by stuffing plastic into plastoc bottles or hope that a future generation sorts it and finds a use.....maybe 3d printers
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Jul 2018
4:15am, 5 Jul 2018
3,155 posts
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run free
cackleberry some councils create furnaces to burn the stuff. They call it energy recovery and say it is "recycling". Up North they were sending it to Sweden to burn. Otherwise send it to some other developing country like indonesia and close our eyes.....create buildings by stuffing plastic into plastoc bottles or hope that a future generation sorts it and finds a use.....maybe 3d printers
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Jul 2018
8:36am, 5 Jul 2018
5,534 posts
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Helegant
Rant alert.
... there are plans for an incinerator next to my home. History and current science says thisis unsafe.
When contaminated plastic is incinerated in an 'energy-waste-recovery facility'
The list of chemicals released from the chimneys of these places is long and worrying.
The plume of 'smoke' spreads for twenty miles in the direction of the prevailing wind.
The latest health studies show that the European and International 'permitted levels' of these toxins released into the environment is directly related to health problems.
The 'permitted levels' and now suggested to be far too high and there is some pressure to reduce these.
The companies that run these incinerators have an appalling safety record.
The companies self-monitor and self-report and often fail to act within the designated timescales e.g. not shutting down when there is a 'leak' of hazchems.
The vehicle movements required to transport the rubbish to be incinerated create massive additional pollution locally.
The 'local' aspect, much vaunted in planning, is now being re-written to include collection from large areas of the country many miles away. Why? Because there is no need for such a facility locally and the local council does not want it and won't use it.
On the 'green lane' approaching the site next to us there is a sixth form college. Normally traffic is very light. An additional 594ish lorry movements each day will spew diesel fumes over those young people. There is also a primary school etc etc.
A green alternative to landfill?
(Gets off soapbox and wanders away wondering how to rewind history back to paper and cardboard packaging, local shops and shopping bags)
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Jul 2018
8:42am, 5 Jul 2018
876 posts
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timaru
Ohhh thats not good..
on the beach here it is full of washed up plastics and rubber. the net stop is Chilie so imagine how polluted the South Pacific is.
Clean Green New Zealand... yeah right.
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