Cant recycle

We keep ours for things like storage of cakes and other such items. They stack pretty well also.

Just had a quick look in our pan storage cupboard, and we have a few of the Heroes tubs also. I do find them very handy for putting food items in, such as when I bake a cake and give it to family. They wash the tub out and give it me back.
 
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jonbeeza said:
We keep ours for things like storage of cakes and other such items. They stack pretty well also.

Just had a quick look in our pan storage cupboard, and we have a few of the Heroes tubs also. I do find them very handy for putting food items in, such as when I bake a cake and give it to family. They wash the tub out and give it me back.
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Alternative uses are great but If we could all recycle them it would be better
 
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Just looking among the goodies, and there is another one of those tubs. Yes I suppose the tubs could have been made from recycled cardboard, possibly with the same sort of shape, and yes that would be better for the environment. I wonder why they don't, possibly cost or better for transporting with minimal damage?
 
I've often thought that every part of the distribution chain should be obliged to accept returned packaging of all types at zero cost to the returner.

So consumer returns it to the retailer, retailer returns it to the distributor, distributor to importer/manufacturer.

You'd soon see all the non-recyclables/hard to recycle disappear.

Also why are they not a tessellating shape - all that inefficient space packing using cylinders rather than rectilinear shapes.
 
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Or add a few pennies on items and get the money back when packets are returned. A bit like the Lemonade bottles, when you returned them you got money back. You would very rarely see Lemonade bottles littering the streets back in the 70s, as they were worth money.
 
Mrs Nod said something about these tubs and recycling yesterday. Wasn't really listening but I think Tesco are collecting them and donating any proceeds to a local charity or 2. Might be a local initiative but could be worth looking into.

I use them for storage - mainly picked-up golf balls!
 
Agree, we try to reuse, in some way, any non-recycleable plastic.

Waxed wrapping on bread we try to use to wrap other food, any reasonably sized plastic bags can be used when I take the dog for a walk and we have more potential seed/plant pots than we can ever use.

There has to be a better way of dealing with this problem.

Dave
 
Tringa said:
Agree, we try to reuse, in some way, any non-recycleable plastic.

Waxed wrapping on bread we try to use to wrap other food, any reasonably sized plastic bags can be used when I take the dog for a walk and we have more potential seed/plant pots than we can ever use.

There has to be a better way of dealing with this problem.

Dave
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Same here, plastic bread bags washed in water after the dishes to save on water. Then used over and over again, for foodstuffs for the fridge and freezer.
 
Spare a thought for the archeologists of the future.

All this recycling means there will be much less rubbish to be searched for clues to our civilisation. Remember: each scrap of recycled material is a scrap of history lost in the future! :naughty: :exit:
 
I think a lot of people need to really look at this recycling lark. A lot of what you put out in your recycle bins still ends up in landfill. Or gets shipped abroad.
 
JonathanRyan said:
It's better that way - reduce , reuse, recycle are supposed to be done in that order. Step 1: don't buy Quality Street :D
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Marc said:
Just looked at the base of our tub of quality street, says the tub and lid can be recycled.
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But yes, I agree about the order. Lack of Tesco carrier bags is a complete PITA because they were useful for many different purposes (including taking shopping & re-using) and a lack of such things means we actually end up buying bags to use instead. Ditto the clear bags that fruit used to come in - made a great 'lunchbag' for a week or so before becoming too damaged to use & ending life as a poo bag for the cat litter tray.
 
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Just looked at the base of our tub of quality street, says the tub and lid can be recycled.
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Good.

We missed out on a tub of choccies this year as we looked yesterday in both Tesco and ASDA and we were too late, they'd all gone. I'm sure in previous years we've seen them on sale after new year so maybe / hopefully some more batches will hit the shops and we'll be able to get some.
 
One of the instructions on our council's refuse/recycle collection, is that any black plastic CANNOT be recycled, because of the sensors in the recyling plants. What an absolutely ridiculous situation.
IMHO the government should ban the use of all black plastic packaging and stop blaming the consumers.
 
woof woof said:
Good.

We missed out on a tub of choccies this year as we looked yesterday in both Tesco and ASDA and we were too late, they'd all gone. I'm sure in previous years we've seen them on sale after new year so maybe / hopefully some more batches will hit the shops and we'll be able to get some.
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We got ours from Aldi last week
 
Marc said:
Just looked at the base of our tub of quality street, says the tub and lid can be recycled.
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Most plastics can, the problem is that some local authorities don't accept some things for recycling.
 
Non-recyclable plastics can be used as RDF and whilst not technically recycled it is classed as being diverted from landfill.
 
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Most plastics can, the problem is that some local authorities don't accept some things for recycling.
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Whilst most plastics can be recycled, the cost of separating them, etc in many cases makes it uneconomical. The fact that different local authorities, recycle different things doesn't help.

Whilst this is from a "green" pressure group, it does highlight the issues: https://www.oceanplasticdebriseducationresearchawareness.org/
 
munch said:
I think a lot of people need to really look at this recycling lark. A lot of what you put out in your recycle bins still ends up in landfill. Or gets shipped abroad.
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I recall watching a tv documentary showing that recycled items that residents had duly seperated and, as you say..it ended up in landfill. I don't know how common this is. Maybe the people doing the tracking of the refuse truck had been given a tip off. Another documentary showed refuse going abroad to very poor countries creating a health hazard. I find it very disheatening. I'm very keen on recycling and take the brittle labels off bottled sparkling water which I only have with our evening meal. I take off the labels on tins and when possible plastic milk bottles.
 
munch said:
Whilst most plastics can be recycled, the cost of separating them, etc in many cases makes it uneconomical. The fact that different local authorities, recycle different things doesn't help.

Whilst this is from a "green" pressure group, it does highlight the issues: https://www.oceanplasticdebriseducationresearchawareness.org/
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch explained. (graphics not just a read)

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world and is located between Hawaii and California. Scientists of The Ocean Cleanup Foundation have conducted the most extensive analysis ever of this area.
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I might be wrong but when I was a kid, sweets like these came in either cardboard boxes (much as they do now), or metal tins. The metal would have been repurposed but I imagine would work for recycling.
 
omens said:
I might be wrong but when I was a kid, sweets like these came in either cardboard boxes (much as they do now), or metal tins. The metal would have been repurposed but I imagine would work for recycling.
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Yes, QS came in metal tins which were always repurposed into either biscuit or cake tins.
 
Lots and lots of examples of terrible and unnecessary use of plastic... Like crappy a4 printers and most printer cartridges, etc.

P.s. why the hell do bananas need to be in a plastic bag since not too long ago?!
 
LongLensPhotography said:
Lots and lots of examples of terrible and unnecessary use of plastic... Like crappy a4 printers and most printer cartridges, etc.

P.s. why the hell do bananas need to be in a plastic bag since not too long ago?!
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Tesco bananas are in plastic bags so they can charge more, if the unbagged ones are crap i take some out of the bags, yes you guessed they can be up to 25% cheaper out of the bag.
 
mikew said:
Tesco bananas are in plastic bags so they can charge more, if the unbagged ones are crap i take some out of the bags, yes you guessed they can be up to 25% cheaper out of the bag.
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You'll know this anyway, Mike..not just bananas but loose is always cheaper than packed. I don't use the small plastic bags for fruit/veg ,I just place them in the trolley..the smaller trolleys. Infact, Morrisons mainly supply paper bags now.
 
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