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An Experiment
Jul. 29th, 2012 09:02 amThis is the amount of types 1 & 2 (PET or HDPE) plastic that a single person in a single household gets through in about 5 weeks.
Tiny punnets (Graze boxes) - 40;
Small punnets with matching lids (fruit/berries) - 4;
Medium/large punnets with & without lids (fruit/berries) - 12;
Small sushi packaging - 2;
Large mixed salad/vegetable packaging - 4;
One smoothie cup & straw;
One small fruit cup;
One tiny dressing pot;
2 Tetra Paks.
There are no bottles here because they've gone for recycling. The only plastic my local authority will take from the kerbside (of any plastic type) is that in the form of bottles. They will recycle the items listed above if I take them down to the tip myself, but they don't deal with any other types of plastic. I threw away a couple of large PP yoghurt pots and a HUGE amount of polythene film that will now sit on a landfill site somewhere for twenty years, leaching bollocks chemicals into the soil, for no damn reason.
Tiny punnets (Graze boxes) - 40;
Small punnets with matching lids (fruit/berries) - 4;
Medium/large punnets with & without lids (fruit/berries) - 12;
Small sushi packaging - 2;
Large mixed salad/vegetable packaging - 4;
One smoothie cup & straw;
One small fruit cup;
One tiny dressing pot;
2 Tetra Paks.
There are no bottles here because they've gone for recycling. The only plastic my local authority will take from the kerbside (of any plastic type) is that in the form of bottles. They will recycle the items listed above if I take them down to the tip myself, but they don't deal with any other types of plastic. I threw away a couple of large PP yoghurt pots and a HUGE amount of polythene film that will now sit on a landfill site somewhere for twenty years, leaching bollocks chemicals into the soil, for no damn reason.
