How much do you recycle?

801 published comments with 45 censored.

How important is recycling in your community?

The two councils with the worst recycling rates in England are both in the East End of London.

Tower Hamlets and Newham recycled just 8.9% and 10.1% respectively during 2005-6, but both are making efforts to boost these figures.

The councils claim that their plans are often hampered by high-rise blocks and residents who don't speak English.

Friends of the Earth say that the government should help inner-city councils to raise standards.

Is recycling important to you? Does your council help you to recycle? Should the government help inner-city areas to go green?

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Written by [tomfer] on Wed Jul 11 14:57:04 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Someone hasn't bothered to look at today's news (check Guardian and BBC science pages)

"even though the sun's activity has been decreasing since 1985, global temperatures have continued to rise"

Kieran H, London, United Kingdom

The Guardian a "reliable unbiased newspaper" of course he he he he he he he and the BBC , well known for lifting it`s stories from other sources , like on thos occsion , possibly "The Guardian" , which of course is NOT a socialist rag !!Try looking elsewhere !!!

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Written by Kieran H, London, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 14:47:46 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"I try hard *NOT* to recycle anything... global warming has been turned into a religion.
Andrew Hunt"

Someone hasn't bothered to look at today's news: ********. stm
or ******** 123447,00.html.

Yet more evidence to add to the overwhelming consensus amoung scientists about man-made global warming. Quote:
"even though the sun's activity has been decreasing since 1985, global temperatures have continued to rise"

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Written by leftwing lefty, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 14:47:24 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Let me ask a serious question to all those who like less immigration into this country.

Assume we close the borders what should Great Britain do next after closing our borders to immigrants?

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Written by Bebe Rebozo on Wed Jul 11 16:17:07 UTC 2007. 4 recommendations.

Note to Caltech:

I am as ethnically English as you, however I don't need to get into race politics because I am not inadequate and don't need to play victim, unlike you.

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Written by LeftLiberal AndProud on Wed Jul 11 16:16:29 UTC 2007. 8 recommendations.

Caltech, old fruit, no-one cares if you have a small member and like to wear frilly knickers, I'm sure these are characteristics shared by many of your comrades, but this is the modern world and what you do in the privacy of your bunker is up to you. On the other hand a real insult would be the racial abuse you spewed at John a few weeks ago. Now run along, I hear DH evans do dresses in sizes that will match your tattoos and accomodate your beergut. XX

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Written by Jabba DeHutt on Wed Jul 11 16:16:02 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

Two problems solved.
1 : No more rubbish in Europe.
2 : In a few years the desert would start to bloom

atomjohn Lee, Derby, United Kingdom

The only problem is cost. We will need to send troops out there to protect the pipe because the locals will get a complex about our rubbish occupying their land and in worse case scenario Al Queda could crawl up the pipe and invade the whole of Europe.

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Written by Ding Dong on Wed Jul 11 16:14:17 UTC 2007. 2 recommendations.

Heck they may even be able to use their rubbish as a floatie saving the UK the expense of paying for their return trip. Now that's recycling!

Jeff Fogltance,

Incineration is the answer, might work for the rubbish too!

[caltech2]

And your particular brand of anti-semitism is particularly foul.

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Written by cattan cattan on Wed Jul 11 16:14:14 UTC 2007. 119 recommendations.

Heck they may even be able to use their rubbish as a floatie saving the UK the expense of paying for their return trip. Now that's recycling!
Jeff Fogltance,"
___________________________

That's the ticket Jeff some good lateral thinking!
I would pay money to watch them all swimming off into the sunset.

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Written by atomjohn Lee, Derby, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 16:12:05 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Why not use the sahara desert for landfill?
We could build a transcontinental pipeline and pump all Europe's sewage and non-recyclable rubbish over there.

Two problems solved.
1 : No more rubbish in Europe.
2 : In a few years the desert would start to bloom

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Written by caltech caltech on Wed Jul 11 16:11:48 UTC 2007. 3 recommendations.

"Incineration is the answer, might work for the rubbish too!

[caltech2]"

We could start with a great bonfire of BNP literature - it's already incendiary rubbish.

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Written by Ron Driver, London on Wed Jul 11 16:09:45 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"They have no legal right to be here and when deported should take some rubbish away with them - please explain how this would make me a war criminal / nazi ?

I'm intrigued

captain dave the hat, Londre"

If you sound like one, you probably are one.

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Written by WanHan Lo on Wed Jul 11 16:09:22 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

Deport all immigrants immediately, each one will also be issued with a rucksack that is filled with rubbish to take back to their own countries.
This would be a good start

captain dave the hat, Londre

Define immigrant? This sort of bigotry is pathetic. I take it you never have and never will set foot outside the UK.

Pathetic!

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Written by [caltech2] on Wed Jul 11 16:09:16 UTC 2007. 763 recommendations.

Deport all immigrants immediately, each one will also be issued with a rucksack that is filled with rubbish to take back to their own countries.
This would be a good start

captain dave the hat, Londre

Heck they may even be able to use their rubbish as a floatie saving the UK the expense of paying for their return trip. Now that's recycling!

Jeff Fogltance,

Incineration is the answer, might work for the rubbish too!

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Written by Jeff Fogltance, Ontario, United States on Wed Jul 11 16:06:19 UTC 2007. 132 recommendations.

Deport all immigrants immediately, each one will also be issued with a rucksack that is filled with rubbish to take back to their own countries.
This would be a good start

captain dave the hat, Londre

Heck they may even be able to use their rubbish as a floatie saving the UK the expense of paying for their return trip. Now that's recycling!

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Written by captain dave the hat, Londre on Wed Jul 11 16:01:23 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"Perhaps you could take you're recycling to Nuremburg then?
[ohdearnevermind] "


Err when does deporting people who are in this country illegally equate to being a war criminal?
What planet are you on?

They have no legal right to be here and when deported should take some rubbish away with them - please explain how this would make me a war criminal / nazi ?

I'm intrigued

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Written by James Perry on Wed Jul 11 16:01:18 UTC 2007. 2 recommendations.

Without even looking at the most recommended section i expect something like:

I DON'T CARE ABOUT RECYCLING BECAUSE ITS:
-A WASTE OF TIME
-MORE ENERGY USED TO RECYCLE THAN TO USE VIRGIN MATERIALS
-SOMETHING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AS A 'NATURAL' CYCLE
-INSERT NARROW MINDED, SELFISH COMMENT HERE

I wish some of the people on this forum would give up on their old, selfish, ill-informed tabloid-science rhetoric and begin applying their thought to caring about something other than themselves!

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Written by [ohdearnevermind] on Wed Jul 11 15:56:38 UTC 2007. 2 recommendations.

Simple solution,

Deport all immigrants immediately, each one will also be issued with a rucksack that is filled with rubbish to take back to their own countries.
This would be a good start

captain dave the hat, Londre

Perhaps you could take you're recycling to Nuremburg then?

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Written by DEBBIE THOMAS, PETERBOROUGH, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 15:55:39 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

WHERE I LIVE, WE HAVE JUST GOT WHEELIE BINS, WHICH IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON PUTTING BAGS AND BOXES OUT! MY PARTNER AND I HAVE ALWAYS RECYCLED AS MUCH AS WE COULD ANYWAY, NOW ITS NEATER AND WE FILL THE BIN TO THE TOP

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Written by captain dave the hat, Londre on Wed Jul 11 15:54:35 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Simple solution,

Deport all immigrants immediately, each one will also be issued with a rucksack that is filled with rubbish to take back to their own countries.
This would be a good start

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Written by [smartYorkshireJim] on Wed Jul 11 15:52:00 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"...what a surprise. My post gets removed. Must...not...call..the...BBC....biased.

...even though it obviously is on this issue.

Steve Butler, Basingstoke, United Kingdom"

Steve, "Read the IPCC Report"'s post stating the source of the BBC and Guardian report (ie the Proceedings of the Royal Society A) appears to have been rejected by the Mods too!

Not sure why, but they don't appear to be unduly biased on this one.

Don't suppose this will stay up long, either!

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Written by Steve Butler, Basingstoke, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 15:48:15 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Yet more evidence to add to the overwhelming consensus amoung scientists about man-made global warming. Kieran H, London, United Kingdom

You really have to laugh. I make a comment about the BBC giving this report a headline and ignoring other reports that make the opposite case, and it get's removed. Yet this one stays. The BBC. Unbiased? Don't make me laugh.

...what a surprise. My post gets removed. Must...not...call..the...BBC....biased.

...even though it obviously is on this issue.

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Written by Read The IPCC Report on Wed Jul 11 15:44:34 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"Read The IPCC Report
Ha, if you believe that you believe anything.

JB Haybee, United Kingdom"

If you believe that tens of thousands of scientists are colluding in a massive conspiracy, nothing anyone can say is likely to dissuade you.

I'd suggest you ask Lord Lucan when you next visit him at Elvis' bar near Area 51 whether he thinks Lady Di was silenced because she was going to blow the whistle on this conspiracy.

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Written by Roger The Cat on Wed Jul 11 15:40:45 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"What about Gay people in all of this?....blah blah - Roger The Cat"

Your name is actually Richard Littlejohn, isn't it ?

Billy Idle


No, just extremely bored with the homosexual lobby hijacking every HYS and moaning about how every decison government make need sto be tailored to their particularly sensitivities.

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Written by Graham Bishop, Warwickshire on Wed Jul 11 15:38:13 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Bored now.

See you all again when this thread comes up again.


Probably in about a weeks time!

Gone

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Written by [1984ReturnsforReal], ENGLAND, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 15:33:02 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Another rejection, the BBC have no sense of humour do they. And they cant even prove beyond doubt that the Earth isnt flat. In which case we can just dump all our waste over the edge.
Jabba DeHutt

Precisely,

I was going to post that I am off to the pub for a pint in half an hour as my beer comes with less packaging & the glass in recyclable.

But now I wont bother...

It would just get erased anyway!

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Written by JB Haybee, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 15:32:32 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

That's a pretty ironic comment! One is the report of many scientists based on peer reviewed science with a body of evidence and theoretical and experimental framework that explains the evidence, drawing a conclusion that it has a high degree of confidence in and with the number of scientific sceptics is getting smaller rather than growing.

Read The IPCC Report
Ha, if you believe that you believe anything.

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Written by Jabba DeHutt on Wed Jul 11 15:29:04 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Another rejection, the BBC have no sense of humour do they. And they cant even prove beyond doubt that the Earth isnt flat. In which case we can just dump all our waste over the edge.

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Written by Read The IPCC Report on Wed Jul 11 15:28:39 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"Er, its the IPCC Report mate, not the bible, "

That's a pretty ironic comment! One is the report of many scientists based on peer reviewed science with a body of evidence and theoretical and experimental framework that explains the evidence, drawing a conclusion that it has a high degree of confidence in and with the number of scientific sceptics is getting smaller rather than growing.

and the other is definitely not based on modern science, though some think is authoritative.

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Written by danny streather, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 15:19:05 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Nope, the Guardian (and BBC) were quoting (or "lifted") peer reviewed research published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society A. If you feel able to challenge it with other peer reviewed science, please do.

Read The IPCC Report

Er, its the IPCC Report mate, not the bible, the true balance is that it has been refuted by as many scientists as signed up to it. And before the insults fly, I neither agree or disagree with it, but I do look at both sides of a story.

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Written by David Holland, London, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 16:24:30 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

If only people who can speak English were allowed to live here then we would not have this problem

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Written by Isaac Hunt, Sodding Typical, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 15:17:12 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Can't them unemployed sort out our rubbish, while we are at work?

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Written by [MarkLScott], Brit in the USA, United States on Wed Jul 11 15:14:35 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"I try hard *NOT* to recycle anything.
...because global warming has been turned into a religion by the greens and I refuse to be preached at.
..politicians use recycling as an excuse to raise more taxes...
...not really about the enviroment...more about social control."
Andrew Hunt

You really are a waste of space. You're taking up room that decent humanbeings could be using. And the expletive with which your name rhymes is most apropos.

Please try to have an original thought.

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Written by Isaac Hunt, Sodding Typical, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 15:01:22 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

Leave the excessive supermarket packaging at the checkout. They will soon get the hint.

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Written by Wayne Gilks, Birmingham, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 15:35:25 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"I try hard *NOT* to recycle anything...
...You see, it's not really about the enviroment, it's more about social control.

Andrew Hunt"

Good god almighty and we wonder why we have major problems. My friend with people like you around we don't deserve to make it!!!!!

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Written by [MarkLScott], Brit in the USA, United States on Wed Jul 11 15:22:29 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"just another way for councils to spend less but tax more what a scam!!

just a shame all the sad little eco facists cannot see the truth"

Good God, it's as if some right-wing head-in-sand ignoramus has been cloned or turned into a bile spewing computer virus!

Try pulling you head out of whichever orifice it's stuck in and stop groaning about how every little thing is going to impact *your* unimportant little existence. There's a whole world that needs help. Do your part for a change.

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Written by Alex, Norfolk on Wed Jul 11 12:10:41 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

I used to live in Newham, I am not surprised they are bottom of the list in terms of recycling. The place is a dump and people do not have enough respect for their surrounding.

Its rubbish (pardon the pun) that it is because so many people cannot speak English, Newham translate absolutely everything.

Truth is, they just don't care and compared to the places they have come from its a paradise.

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Written by Northern Monkey, Oldham on Wed Jul 11 12:42:57 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

The kind of ignorant person for whom it would be worth bringing back the stocks, so he can be subjected to public approbation.

Robert K, London, United Kingdom

I suppose you're the "man" to carry the punishemnt out? Yeah, thought not MOUTH!

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Written by Roger The Cat on Wed Jul 11 13:02:56 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

What about Gay people in all of this? 10 pages in and no-one has mentioned them or considered their perspective at all so far.

Just as yesterday's debate on tax concessions to married people to help them bring up their children was clearlyt targetted to have a go at homosexuals I know there must be some way in which this debate discriminates against them also.

The poor dears must be feeling so marginalised and I blame us all for being so insensitive.

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Written by [jacp496], Southampton on Wed Jul 11 13:14:38 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"I try hard *NOT* to recycle anything.

The reason is because global warming has been turned into a religion by the greens and I refuse to be preached at.

The politicians use recycling as an excuse to raise more taxes to waste.

Andrew Hunt"

Maybe you should do it and have a bit more respect for everyone else who lives in this country. Selfish cretin.

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Written by Mike Fairclough, Exmouth Devon on Wed Jul 11 13:22:31 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

"I try hard *NOT* to recycle anything.

The reason is because global warming has been turned into a religion by the greens and I refuse to be preached at.

The politicians use recycling as an excuse to raise more taxes to waste.

Andrew Hunt"

Brain dead idiots like you are a a cancer within our society ... Do some reading and learn the facts .. of course , you clearly are so highly educated you know all the answers ..... ignorance in the extreme!

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Written by Isaac Hunt, Sodding Typical, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 13:20:33 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

We should have edible packaging.

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Written by Isaac Hunt, Sodding Typical, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 13:22:50 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

In a flat people don't have the space to store recycling.

[Janedarc], London, United Kingdom

That makes no sense!!!
If you have no space to store anything, you have no rubbish!
Or if you have rubbish - where do you keep it? If you keep it in a box, why not swap the box for a recycle box?

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Written by Sophie Shinigami, Belfast, Ireland on Wed Jul 11 13:28:48 UTC 2007. 0 recommendations.

"I try hard *NOT* to recycle anything.
The reason is because global warming has been turned into a religion by the greens and I refuse to be preached at.
The politicians use recycling as an excuse to raise more taxes to waste.
Andrew Hunt"

My jaw dropped readint his. Global warming or not, doesn't landfill strike you as an issue? Pollution? Aren't you bothered that we're living in a giant rubbish dump?
That, and there's actually no reason to be wasteful for the sake of it. Muppet.

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Written by paul, chelmsford on Wed Jul 11 14:06:33 UTC 2007. 1 recommendations.

I recycle NOTHING because Its a complete waste of time when countries like America, China, don't sign up to Kyoto.....It's like peeing in the wind.

Northern Monkey, Oldham

Northen Monkey; How old are you? 5 "if they don't then why should i" you are a complete numpty...

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Written by [1984ReturnsforReal], ENGLAND, United Kingdom on Wed Jul 11 14:16:30 UTC 2007. 5 recommendations.

So if someone proposes that it is OK for 2 gay men to bring up a child, I CANNOT disagree because it is homophopic. Likewise if someone proposes open door immigration I CANNOT disagree because it is racist. Is that the BBCs idea of free speech. [caltech2]


There is a huge difference between free speech & the abuse of it.

Or do you walk down the street shouting the N word?

Get the subtle difference yet?

(posted yesterday just after the mod went F/Mod cos caltech spoilt it again)

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