Bottle Bank

francie81

I have being searching awhile now to why local authorities discontinued the plastic bottle bring bank, not sure if this was a nationwide decision but certainly in my area of Co. Louth, this move is not exactly encouraging people to recycle in a country that’s already struggling with environmental issues.
My recycling bin is noticeably full in no time as a result.

francie81

francie81 wrote: »

I have being searching awhile now to why local authorities discontinued the plastic bottle bring bank, not sure if this was a nationwide decision but certainly in my area of Co. Louth, this move is not exactly encouraging people to recycle in a country that’s already struggling with environmental issues.
My recycling bin is noticeably full in no time as a result.

Anyone???

francie81

Hard to believe how I haven’t got one response to this indeed talking to myself I am.

odyssey06

I don't know for sure, but likely connected to increased costs of recycling or fake recycling \\ burning since china stopped taking plastics.

francie81

odyssey06 wrote: »

I don't know for sure, but likely connected to increased costs of recycling or fake recycling \\ burning since china stopped taking plastics.

Ok. But if not China then soneone elsewhere is when we are still recycling it, and the public did not get a clear briefing on this.

two wheels good

francie81 wrote: »

Anyone???

Expecting a response within 2 hours .. on a Saturday? Everyone is at the recycling tip I expect.

I'm don't think I've seen a plastic bottle bring-bank on the steet in Cork in the past ten years. The paper and carboard banks disappeared years ago.
My most convenient bottle and can bank were removed following the rebuilding of the local community centre.

Yes, recycling facilities are woefully inadequate in many parts of the country. And yet Repac say we're better than the EU average for recycling so we don't to make any effort to improve.

Markcheese

It's probably for the same reason that you don't want to put them in your own recycling bin,
The bins fill up very fast with high volume / low weight plastic bottles, add to this that plastic isn't easy to properly recycle,and is expensive to sort too.. Try squishing the bottles,??

francie81

Markcheese wrote: »

It's probably for the same reason that you don't want to put them in your own recycling bin,
The bins fill up very fast with high volume / low weight plastic bottles, add to this that plastic isn't easy to properly recycle,and is expensive to sort too.. Try squishing the bottles,??

I know but if that were the case it would defy the whole reason of having bring banks in the first place.

Oh believe me I compact as much as I can but cheers for the tip

Graces7

I only ever get plastic bottles from milk as I refill my one water bottle every day.

The milk cartons I cut in half just below the handles. The bottom half, pierced, makes an excellent seed/ seedling planter and when you put the top on, a mini greenhouse.
Same with meat/chicken trays..

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francie81 wrote: »

I have being searching awhile now to why local authorities discontinued the plastic bottle bring bank, not sure if this was a nationwide decision but certainly in my area of Co. Louth, this move is not exactly encouraging people to recycle in a country that’s already struggling with environmental issues.
My recycling bin is noticeably full in no time as a result.

Yes Francie, Louth CC did away with plastic bottle recycling bins because, they said, they were spending a few hundred thousand a year to get rid of the bottles. It seems nobody really wants them. Likewise, our home recycling bins are filling much quicker as a result and one has to wonder what is actually happening to these bottles if there's no demand to recycle them.

Jellybaby1

Graces7 wrote: »

I only ever get plastic bottles from milk as I refill my one water bottle every day.

The milk cartons I cut in half just below the handles. The bottom half, pierced, makes an excellent seed/ seedling planter and when you put the top on, a mini greenhouse.
Same with meat/chicken trays..

Grace you're absolutely right with the plastic bottles as mini greenhouses. I planted 12 lettuce plants a few weeks ago, I cut 2ltr plastic bottles in half and popped the top half over 6 of the plants with the tops off. Those plants are now twice the size of the plants which were left out to fend for themselves in the elements. I just removed the bottles yesterday. Worked a treat!

francie81

Lilly Rough Doorknob wrote: »

Yes Francie, Louth CC did away with plastic bottle recycling bins because, they said, they were spending a few hundred thousand a year to get rid of the bottles. It seems nobody really wants them. Likewise, our home recycling bins are filling much quicker as a result and one has to wonder what is actually happening to these bottles if there's no demand to recycle them.

Well said.

And because it’s plastic which appears to be one or is hardest to recycle with the onus being put on manufacturers to come up with another form of material.