Greetings:

This thread will proove particularily usefull if you live in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver, British Columbia.

I recently scored work sorting Recycleables at a Recycling Processing Plant on Annacis Island!

And from that work, I found out the following Information that is Very Useful for All People who Care about the Environment and make it a point in their Lives to do Recycling.


The thing is, it is Generally Believed that Plastic Grocery Bags are Not Recycleable. It even says on the Pamphlets that come with you Blue Box not to put in Plastic Grocery Bags.

That is Wrong!!!

The Plant that I now work at has a Work Station at which Plastic Grocery Bags are separated out. They are then Bailled Up in Bundles and Shipped Off to a Town (I do not know where yet) and they are used as Fuel, Burned in a Steam Based Power Plant to create Steam to drive some Generators to give the Town Electricity.

So after having a word with my New Boss about the subject, he said that he would like everyone to put their Plastic Grocery Bags into their Blue Boxes.

This not only included Plastic Grocery Bags, but also:
- Plastic Wrapping of any sort
- Bread Bags
- Old Glad Garbage Bags of any size


So if you have a Drawer or Closet full of Plastic Grocery Bags, stuff them all into One Main Plastic Bag and put them into your Blue Box.

They will get picked up and taken to my Plant and Processed.


KNR

We here in Florida have a grocerie store called Publix and in the front they have a box where you can bring the bags back to be recycled.
so ya I make my monthly stop and fill the box lol.

Morgana

KiNoRonin wrote:
Greetings:

This thread will proove particularily usefull if you live in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver, British Columbia.

I recently scored work sorting Recycleables at a Recycling Processing Plant on Annacis Island!

And from that work, I found out the following Information that is Very Useful for All People who Care about the Environment and make it a point in their Lives to do Recycling.


The thing is, it is Generally Believed that Plastic Grocery Bags are Not Recycleable. It even says on the Pamphlets that come with you Blue Box not to put in Plastic Grocery Bags.

That is Wrong!!!

The Plant that I now work at has a Work Station at which Plastic Grocery Bags are separated out. They are then Bailled Up in Bundles and Shipped Off to a Town (I do not know where yet) and they are used as Fuel, Burned in a Steam Based Power Plant to create Steam to drive some Generators to give the Town Electricity.

So after having a word with my New Boss about the subject, he said that he would like everyone to put their Plastic Grocery Bags into their Blue Boxes.

This not only included Plastic Grocery Bags, but also:
- Plastic Wrapping of any sort
- Bread Bags
- Old Glad Garbage Bags of any size


So if you have a Drawer or Closet full of Plastic Grocery Bags, stuff them all into One Main Plastic Bag and put them into your Blue Box.

They will get picked up and taken to my Plant and Processed.


KNR

I sent my New Employeer a copy of this post by Email.

Yesterday, when I showed up at work, the Boss informed me that he had arranged for me to have a $1.00 Per Hour Raise (using my First Aid Ticket as an Excuse)!

[dancing-banana]

That is very cool!!!
It is nice to be noticed for something you do, just because you feel it is right, it is fantastic to be rewarded for it unexpectedly!!
Congrats!!
MW

KiNoRonin wrote:

KiNoRonin wrote:
Greetings:

This thread will proove particularily usefull if you live in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver, British Columbia.

I recently scored work sorting Recycleables at a Recycling Processing Plant on Annacis Island!

And from that work, I found out the following Information that is Very Useful for All People who Care about the Environment and make it a point in their Lives to do Recycling.


The thing is, it is Generally Believed that Plastic Grocery Bags are Not Recycleable. It even says on the Pamphlets that come with you Blue Box not to put in Plastic Grocery Bags.

That is Wrong!!!

The Plant that I now work at has a Work Station at which Plastic Grocery Bags are separated out. They are then Bailled Up in Bundles and Shipped Off to a Town (I do not know where yet) and they are used as Fuel, Burned in a Steam Based Power Plant to create Steam to drive some Generators to give the Town Electricity.

So after having a word with my New Boss about the subject, he said that he would like everyone to put their Plastic Grocery Bags into their Blue Boxes.

This not only included Plastic Grocery Bags, but also:
- Plastic Wrapping of any sort
- Bread Bags
- Old Glad Garbage Bags of any size


So if you have a Drawer or Closet full of Plastic Grocery Bags, stuff them all into One Main Plastic Bag and put them into your Blue Box.

They will get picked up and taken to my Plant and Processed.


KNR

I sent my New Employeer a copy of this post by Email.

Yesterday, when I showed up at work, the Boss informed me that he had arranged for me to have a $1.00 Per Hour Raise (using my First Aid Ticket as an Excuse)!

KNR that is great!! I told you a bit back that you'll be ok!! I love it[wink]

i use them as well :P

Here is something I just posted onto the Internet.

Please forward the following information on to who it may concern:
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I just got Home from Work.
Some Brilliant Genius somewhere in Vancouver got the Bright Idea to throw out about 8 Cans of Oil Based Acrylic Interior House Paint into their Big Blue Bin!!!

A Couple of the Cans Popped and Paint Got All Over the F-ing Place!!! The Sorting Station Conveyer Belt now have all sorts of Paint Streaks all over it and quite a few pairs of Work Gloves maybe my Coveralls are now Ruinned!

I would like to find that SOB and give that person (male or female) a Good Whap Upside the Head!!!


DO NOT USE YOUR BLUE BIN AS A PAINT DISPOSAL SITE!!!

[mad]

Our local supermarket giant (Tesco) rewards those who re-use their carrier bags(yipee,something I've always done)& our local authority have got on the re-cycling bandwagon which is great.what I find really inexplicable is that the local re-cycling centre will take all manner of stuff,but not used vegetable oil.When I clean out my deep fat fryer I collect the oil but when we asked what to do with it we were told to just put it out for the normal refuse collection.I know this kind of oil can be processed to use as a kind of bio-diesel so why isn't it collected??Hey ho,such are the anomolies of environmental practices in the UK,[rolleyes][rolleyes]

Also:
Do Not Dispose Of Your Used Automotive Motor Oil in your Recycling Box!!!

I recently had another Brilliant Genius do that!!!


And do not pack your Cans and Newpapers into Boxes, as we end up having to spend extra time digging them out or pulling them back out of the Cardboard Boxes.

The best thing to do is just leave your Newspapers and Can go into your Blue Box loose so that we can take hold of them more easily when they go by our Paper Sorting Conveyor Belt.

If you want, it is Ok to put Cans inside of each other and tying Newpapers together into Bundles with String.

KNR

Gothmother - if you think the UK is cracked you want to try living on the Isle of Man. They spent millions on a new incinerator which everyone hates (mainly cos it's butt ugly!?) but have to buy in from the UK to run it. They make out they're so big on recycling - there are recycling bins evreywhere -but actually ship the waste to the north of the island for landfill. And we have to pay £50 for a compost bin which are free on the mainland & in N.Ireland (my mum has at least 5 and gets fined if she puts the wrong stuff in the wrong bin!)

Now it's just been reported in one of the local magazines that apparently Global Warming has nothing to do with the Isle of Man and is not a priority for the Government.

As for the veg oil/bio deisel - that was proven on "It's not Eay being Green" on the BBC - the guy and his friend made their own conferter on their barn and could run their jeep for about a month on one barrel of old chip oil.

Now if only the governments had this much sense and ingenuity...