Location: Back in the land of the singing aardvarks looking for the escape hatch.....
Age: 42
Posts: 1,207
Yes, but once you recycle beer, the water company charges to take it away, clean it up, then sells it back to you as 'water' and unfortunately, it's non-alcoholic water!
As for the rest, it's not a case of doing the right thing, our council only empty the bins once a fortnight, so we have to recycle tins, glass, paper, garden waste (despite encouraging us all to keep composting bins in our back gardens) and food waste, which they take away. Cardboard, plastics and wood have to be taken to the tip (the resulting carbons thrown into the air by your car probably negates any benefit gained from the recycling). But there you go.
Offer is still on West, if you ever RON near OKC send me an e-mail. My career has suddenly changed course, so to speak and I am not flying any more, well for a while at least.
But then again after 40 years and 23,000 plus hours maybe it was time to quit.
Location: Back in the land of the singing aardvarks looking for the escape hatch.....
Age: 42
Posts: 1,207
Well if it's Bud you're talking about, then treat your liver and pour the stuff straight down the kitchen sink. Even I don't hate my liver enough to punish it with Bud.
"Even I don't hate my liver enough to punish it with Bud"
Concur. Moosehead, now that's a good beer.
"But then again after 40 years and 23,000 plus hours maybe it was time to quit"
I wish you well in your next adventure. I hope its drinking beer by the pool in retirement. When I hit those numbers, it will be time to head to Walmart for my third career.
Do you re-cycle your newspapers, plastic bottles, wine bottles, etc??
Yes, yes, yes to all the above and the boss is very green (well only when he has been to the liquid lunches at the club) I have to make sure anyone who comes into the office does the same.
It was a big struggle to get the airline office I worked in to go green recycling bottles etc they used to do paper. By the time I left they were on the way to saving a few rain forests etc.
More should do it in the UK but the local goevernments should also provide more incentive and better fascilities for collection
Recycle? I shove the lot in one placky bag. Lawn cuttings, domestic waste, newspapers etc, and I still don´t fill it up. No bottles, don´t buy them. Odd tin or two. Able to carry it in one hand. Meanwhile, "green" neighbours fill about two wheelie bins and 6 large bags plus their "recycle" boxes.
Go figure. Leave most of my waste at the pub......
I try my best with the old green lark, but I don't compost stuff, I chuck it into the long grass of the field next door. I imagine it will either be eaten there, or rot fairly harmlessly. I get very irritated by packaging though. Its all plastic when paper or card would do the job just as well. I can understand the use for plastic where liquids are concerned, but you can recycle those ones. Most of the plastic trays and rubbish that surrounds some products can't be put in the special bin. I also make a point of buying veg that isn't shrink-wrapped. What's the point? It's just made to create waste. If they're worried about flies leaving bacteria on said vegetables the i've got news - people rarely eat raw broccoli.
Veggies grow in the dirty ground don't they?? so why clingfilm em, who's keeping who clean??!
By far the biggest threat tou your health with fruit & veg from supermarkets is all the rubbish they're coated with in order to meet supermarket specifications. I'll give you an example: a nice crunchy apple, grown in January. Harvested in May, washed & coated in wax to stop it respiring, then stuck in a dark warehouse at 3-4 degrees c for six months, then sent 800 miles by lorry to Tesburysons where it's picked & sent out again on a lorry to a store....where you buy it & marvel at the freshness. Personally, I go to a farmers market where often as not, it'a all a bit cheaper & none of it is addicted to drugs. OTOH if I do have to buy anything from a supermarket, I wash it proper before cooking.
Location: Out of the sand pit, carving a path through our jungle.
Age: 61
Posts: 128
Re-cycling with us is a BIG thing.
All food scraps (except bones) go in the dogs. The output from the dogs, (plus bones), gets incinerated with the larger branches from the garden!
All other garden/green kitchen waste is composted.
ALL plastic, including the supermarket trays goes for re-cycling at our local centre, they get turned into strimmer lines and garden furniture, so they CAN use the trays.
All cardboard/paper/cans and bottles go to the centre.
We end up with one black sack every six months, which goes to the local tip, which diverts us from the local centre for the rest of the stuff, so it’s not an extra journey.
How Green Are You??
