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Transparent recycling bins?

davidc4430 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:07:04 GMT

Transparent recycling bins would make residents 'face their waste', former Greens senator says

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-20/transparent-recycling-bins-proposed-for-adelaide-council-area/11227906

if it comes here i'll just paint my bin

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

lyndal1838 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:20:30 GMT

I think you will find that is illegal David......but there is nothing stopping you using a recyclable bin liner in it.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

ecar3483 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:34:47 GMT

Think of the opportunities...

"Help me, I'm trapped in the bin" written backwards, on the inside of the bin...

"Novelty" stickers such as aquarium fish and plants...

Or my personal favourite - Short horizontal lines at set intervals... 100 mL... 200 mL... and of course, excusing the pun, for good measure, lines for the number of Cups, up to the Pint mark and beyond...

And coloured blinking Christmas lights would also add to the cheer, but you'd have to take them out on bin day... ha ha...

See through rubbish bins? Let the fun begin! ha ha...

🙂

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

zanadoo_56 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:47:49 GMT

I think they are a golden opportunity for graffiti artists.

It's probably the one time vandalism might be appreciated by the residents.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

chameleon54 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:35:36 GMT

I heard this segment on the ABC radio this morning and thought it was a wind up, but no......The Greens are serious about this. Just another crack-pot idea dreamed up by some Greens senator who's smoked too much pot.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

lyhargr_0 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:08:34 GMT

I cant really see what the prob is, if you are using it properly, there wouldn't be much to see in mine

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

lyndal1838 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:53:04 GMT

I have a lot more in my recycling bin than my garbage bin.

They are ugly enough without all the contents in full view of everybody.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

myoclon1cjerk — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:41:02 GMT

"Just another crack-pot idea dreamed up by some Greens senator who's smoked too much pot"

Actually it isn't. It's the brainchild of Jindarie Regional Council, one of W.A's largest waste management services.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

springyzone — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:54:03 GMT

Well, well, haven't things gone full circle.

Now we have councils trying to shame people for recycling!

We have 2 recycle bins and council is telling us we will have to pay an extra premium for one of them.

If recycle bins are full, then they are full of something, and that is usually stuff like bottles, jars and cardboard wrapping.

I agree with Lyndal and the bins are ugly enough without everyone having to see the contents. I actually think it is also an invasion of privacy.

Then councils wonder why there is so much illegal dumping of rubbish!

So we consumers, who are at the very end of the production line, are being told not to make rubbish, to face up to our evil amount of recycling, not to dump rubbish anywhere. And they don't like us burning it.

But at the same time, the government would have a fit if we stopped buying things and let's face it, almost everything you buy in supermarkets is wrapped in something.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

davidc4430 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:59:09 GMT

my biggest problem with the recycle bin is all the stuff your told not to put in it that i think should be put in it.

like styrene foam packing and plastic bags

when you read the ins and outs its rediculous

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

springyzone — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:11:31 GMT

I would question how much from our bins is even recycled, david.

If they were serious about recycling, I would have thought you'd have one container for paper/cardboard and another for jars or whatever.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

davidc4430 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:07:12 GMT

i rekon its just another con job where we pay to have our carp recycled and it either gets shipped off shore to 3rd world countries or goes to landfill by stealth.

sure i know there are a few actual recycling places in australia that actually do recycle a small amount of carp, but mostly its a con.

when anyone asks questions we get shown some little building with a device in it turning tyres into something or some waste plastic into something but it actually a tiny example of what needs to be set up.

we need factories 50 times the size to recycle our carp.

how long before our council rates go up more to cover the fact the money we pay now only covers shipping it offshore?

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

chameleon54 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:22:19 GMT

Unfortunately the whole recycling thing has just become a farce. You would have to question whether the amount of green house gasses expended in trucks picking it up, carting it extra distances to recycling, sorting stations, machines and people going through it all, picking out a few bits, ( and dumping the rest in landfill ) loading it onto ships and sending it to China for further processing, etc. etc. etc is actually worth it.

And now that China no longer wants our rubbish ????

Most of the recyclables are ending up in landfill anyway. We would be much better off just putting glass and metal in the recycling bin, ( pull the metal out with magnets and the rest is glass ) and burn the rest at very high temperatures in modern power stations such as those used in some European countries.

Another alternative would be to just stockpile all of the recyclables from our bins in land fill storage as a resource to be mined by future generations.

Its all just become another bit of PC rubbish to make the plebs feel like they are doing their bit for the environment, rather than actually achieving the real goal of sustainably recycling our waste and saving the environment.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

cezm — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:28:09 GMT

@springyzone wrote:
Well, well, haven't things gone full circle.

Now we have councils trying to shame people for recycling!

I thought it was more about discouraging people from putting the wrong things in the recycling bin.

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

lyhargr_0 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:28:58 GMT

@lyndal1838 wrote:
I have a lot more in my recycling bin than my garbage bin.

They are ugly enough without all the contents in full view of everybody.

I am the opposite, very little goes in either of our bins .....

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

cezm — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:30:36 GMT

I believe different councils have different facilities which means there are differences in what can be recycled.

Here we are unable to recycle plastic bottle lids, for example, whereas in Brisbane they can go in the recycling bin

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

lyhargr_0 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:31:37 GMT

@cezm wrote:
@springyzone wrote:
Well, well, haven't things gone full circle.

Now we have councils trying to shame people for recycling!

I thought it was more about discouraging people from putting the wrong things in the recycling bin.

Exactly!

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

lyhargr_0 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:43:27 GMT

@springyzone wrote:
Well, well, haven't things gone full circle.

Now we have councils trying to shame people for recycling!

We have 2 recycle bins and council is telling us we will have to pay an extra premium for one of them.

If recycle bins are full, then they are full of something, and that is usually stuff like bottles, jars and cardboard wrapping.
I agree with Lyndal and the bins are ugly enough without everyone having to see the contents. I actually think it is also an invasion of privacy.

Then councils wonder why there is so much illegal dumping of rubbish!

So we consumers, who are at the very end of the production line, are being told not to make rubbish, to face up to our evil amount of recycling, not to dump rubbish anywhere. And they don't like us burning it.

But at the same time, the government would have a fit if we stopped buying things and let's face it, almost everything you buy in supermarkets is wrapped in something.

We only have 1 re cycle bin, we put it out once a month. All our excess cardboard goes in the compost bins, glass jars and bottles are kept for preserving or passed on to others to use, so it only leaves the odd tin or plastic bottle to put in the bin. Our rubbish bin is the same, we would be lucky to have 1 bag of rubbish in there each week

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

davidc4430 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 23:23:38 GMT

@cezm wrote:
I believe different councils have different facilities which means there are differences in what can be recycled.

Here we are unable to recycle plastic bottle lids, for example, whereas in Brisbane they can go in the recycling bin

it shouldnt matter where you live, everything that can be recycled should be put in the recycle bin.

not this rediculous list of what can and cant.

we as a nation should be taking care of our waste, not shipping it to 3rd world countries.

what do you think they do with what they dont want?

burn it so we get the polution in the atmosphear?

bury it?

dump it into the ocean?

who knows?

Re: Transparent recycling bins?

brerrabbit585 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 23:25:32 GMT

I only have a couple of handfuls of plastic a week and I put those in one of the neighbours bins. It saves the truck having to stop an extra time for virtually nothing and using a lot more fuel.

I think we should have a skip at the end of the street for recyclables - one each for glass, paper, etc. People would get some exercise walking to it and it'd be much more efficient (less costly) to pick up, and minimal sorting required. I know it'd require people to put things in the right bin but hopefully most would do the right thing (it wouldn't be much different to how it is now in that respect).

People can only generate so much rubbish and not having limits on recyclables should help. The same applies to non-recyclables - they wouldn't put them in the recyclable bin if they weren't limited with them.

Ultimately, we won't win the war on waste until people stop buying 'things'. Everything I buy is kept until it wears out or breaks but some people regularly replace things just because they get bored with them. A lot of things we buy are wrapped in too much plastic but we only need to stop buying some products for a little while for the supermarkets/manufacturers to get the message - but frankly, most people don't care or they think it's someone else's problem. I've seen it here before - people think it's someone else's job to clean up after them but they shouldn't be making the mess in the first place.