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Thursday, March 31, 2005 - (see all news for this day)
the tip - 06:48 PM
(filed under 'green living')
i went to the tip this afternon. well, it's not called the tip anymore. it's not been called that for ages. now it's the 'refuse transfer station'. anyway, i went to the tip.
we don't have a recycling service at the college. there's not even a council rubbish service, in fact. an employee of the college comes to collect our rubbish from good old fashioned tin rubbish bins once a week, but it's all in the one bin, no recycling.
i want to try to do the right thing, so i've been keeping the recyclable rubbish separate to the normal rubbish. storage of it is a bit of an issue at this point. i've been using the one extra bin we have to put it all in outside under the carport, but i ran out of room in that pretty quickly, despite squashing the aluminium cans & plastic bottles as much as i could. so i started putting the crushed cans back into the empty coke cans cartons, but it's certainly not the best of solutions.
it was a bit of a mess taking it there today. since i've always had a council recycling bin before, it all went into the one bin. i wasn't sure what the different categories were at the tip, so it was all kind of thrown in together. what wtih shroom's almost empty coke can ashtrays (ergh. it's disgusting. i've asked if he'd mind using a real ashtray) in with the other stuff, it was a bit gross.
so i sorted through it all & divided it up into glass bottles (green & brown glass go together & clear glass has its own place), cardboard & paper, plastic bottles & aluminium cans.
turns out there was no place for the plastic bottles which i thought was a bit odd. i'm sure that plastic bottles are recyclable. i asked one of the other people there using the tip if there was a place for them & they seemed to think not. next time i'm there i might check at the office. i also wondered about steel cans. you know, from tinned food. i couldn't see a place for that. another one to ask about.
as i collect all of this rubbish for the next trip, i guess i'll try to keep them all separated into their different types so i don't have to do any sorting. we still have the issue of storage though. there's not really any room in the kitchen for three different bins as well as the normal (non-recycling) bin. even if there was room, things like the glass bin & the aluminium can bin would sit there mostly empty for ages, so it would seem like a bit of a waste of premium kitchen real estate.
hmm. i'll have to think about this one.
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perhaps the rubbish collection center separates everything. my mom has to separate everything and puts them out in separated containbers. we don't. our center separates everything themselves.