Help Us Recycle More!

[Kate.E]

I live in Broomhill and am quite into recycling all our household rubbish - partly cos we'll have to someday soon, but mainly cos I live in a student house and it means we don't have an overflowing wheelie bin every week!

 

Does anybody know if the council offer a collection service for our recyclables other than paper (e.g. plastic, glass and cans?) It seems to defeat the object a bit having to use energy to drive to a recycling point! Plus, shouldn't the council be encouraging us to recycle as much as possible anyway?

 

Also, does anyone know of anywhere that recycles carrier bags?

[AtticusFinch]

According to Veolia (Onyx) there are several recycling bring banks in Broomhill, including Crewe Flats, Endcliffe Vale Flats and Halifax Hall. If you live closer to the central University of Sheffield campus, there are bring banks for paper, glass, plastic and tins next to the Arts Tower. You could always walk to these from your house and take a few bags of recyclable rubbish with you. I usually take a slight detour from my walk to work in order to drop off some plastics at the Devonshire Green bring banks.

 

I know that the Infirmary Road Tesco has a bring bank especially for carrier bags, but I'm not sure if the Ecclesall Road Tesco has one too. Tesco now sell the "bags for life" for 10p each though, so you could buy a few of those and not have to use new carrier bags each time you go food shopping.

 

[KenH]

Also, does anyone know of anywhere that recycles carrier bags?

 

You are going about this in entirely the wrong way. There is no point in getting disposable items and then going to great lengths to try and get them converted, using more energy, into new disposable items. If you really want to be green then get a few shopping bags and don't use carriers. You can even get a basket and put fruit and veg straight in it. Go to a butcher who will put meat into a single small bag rather then buying it on a tray, with associated wrappings.

[ecp02aks]

You are going about this in entirely the wrong way. There is no point in getting disposable items and then going to great lengths to try and get them converted, using more energy, into new disposable items. If you really want to be green then get a few shopping bags and don't use carriers. You can even get a basket and put fruit and veg straight in it. Go to a butcher who will put meat into a single small bag rather then buying it on a tray, with associated wrappings.

 

I agree with your sentiments KenH, but in a student household as Kate indicates she is part of, unless all household members behave in the same way, i.e. avoid plastic bags, then a build up of carrier bags is bound to happen. In that case, then recycling them is appropriate unless they can find another use for them. That reminds me, I know that New Roots accept plastic bags for reuse.