shopping the supermarkets

[Waffler]

we have green bins for alluminium/plastic/paper/cardboard which are emptied fortnightly but you can have as many as you want, black bin for everything else emptied weekly, and our area of leeds has just been delivered brown bins as a trial for garden waste, and although i compost most stuff, as waffler states never the dreaded bindweed and i dont compost leylandi cuttings...the only thing we cant get them to recycle is GLASS whihch is a pain in the butt cause although i dont have a serious drink problem i do accumulate a fair few wine bottles especially during bbq weather

I can't understand these councils not collecting glass; surely they're one of the easiest materials to collect and recycle. They're also one of the bulkiest for people to recycle themselves: I remember well the days of having bags of bottles clanking about in the back of the car and escaping from the bags and rolling too and fro.

[Flummery]

I have actually unpacked fruits/toms etc from their extra packaging and put them in a thin poly bag then left the excess packaging at the checkout. Some MP was advocating it a while back.

[anthonyjb]

my farmer friend got a plane isnt live a bitch

[Waffler]

A complete 'aside'... there are a lot of us around today; this is like Sunday chat!

[Hans Mum]

wind down to easter waffler.......everythings quite at work loads of people off for easter hols, my turn next week

[Lesley Jay]

As well as our little tiny box for glass and tins we received a half sized green bin for garden refuse last week. It went out this morning for emptying. Guess what - it hasn't been emptied because it contained weeds with soil on their roots and soil is not allowed!!!

[bubblewrap]

We have 4 bins 1 wheelie (non recycable) 1 bin for (red sack)for card & paper(including envelopes)1 bin for(green sack) plastics & tins) 1 plastic box for glass. The council also supplies a brown wheelie bin for garden waste not free( don't know how much) the council then composts this & sells to anyone who wants it
http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/environm...onservice.html

[OverWyreGrower]

As well as our little tiny box for glass and tins we received a half sized green bin for garden refuse last week. It went out this morning for emptying. Guess what - it hasn't been emptied because it contained weeds with soil on their roots and soil is not allowed!!!

You mean you didn't wash the weeds before putting them in the bin??
Honestly!!!

Next time, hide them under other stuff (that's what I do!)

[zebedee]

Just a question, here! Why did we, the British public, get Supermarkets in the first place? Why did they start, and why did they ge tso popular so quickly?

[johnty greentoes]

Call me a Stalinist/Brownite if you like but the make-it-up-as-you-go-along to recycling across the country makes me scream IT'S A GLOBAL ISSUE LET'S TACKLE IT AT A NATIONAL LEVEL.

The state is good for somethings - usually things that affect the whole nation...

Of course we all need to act as responsible adults - but some need persuading!

[Two_Sheds]

Better to Reduce (your plastic) and Re-use than to Recycle (all goes to landfill anyway, just in a different coloured bin)
As for supermarket cheap prices etc...I can't afford to always shop by my principles (v.low income) so I alternate 'regular' stuff with fairtrade/organic.
I am uncomfortable with how milk is produced, so I am cutting down if I can't give up (trying to acquire a taste for black Earl Grey, bleugh).
I do my best, can't do any more than that...I buy British apples instead of South African (food miles); I buy clothes from Oxfam not new, and I try to only buy what I NEED, not what I want. Life isn't dull...not when my cabbages have just germinated and the blackbirds are nesting.
Buy less.
Create don't consume

[Earthbabe]

Agree with your serenity! I sort of knew this kind of thing was going on - but now - I'll buy my milk from my milkman! Its shamefull what the supermarkets do to normal, law abiding farmers and veg producers! Bernie aka Dexterdog

I've always supported our local milkman, but it does cost 50p a pint!
Looks like you have to pay to have standards!

Which is what I pay direct to the farmer who supplies my totally untreated milk. It's the best milk we've ever had and I don't quibble. I think it is worth it.

I shopped with a friend recently, she wanted stuff for her tea and I'd given her some leeks. I couldn't believe some of the prices. Tesco wanted £1.48 for a melon I could buy for half that at the greengrocer which is actually closer to me.

I pointed this out to her and that she could save money and get more by buying her broccoli and cauli unprepped and unbagged. I think she drew the line when I suggested she didn't need a separate bag for her one courgette!! Tee! Hee! Well she did want my opinion and asks my advice.

[Flummery]

Ah, that's where Johnty's peony went! Glad Thatcher's gone!

[johnty greentoes]

Ah, that's where Johnty's peony went! Glad Thatcher's gone!

She has been reincarnated as something that I can compost!

[madderbat]

Just a question, here! Why did we, the British public, get Supermarkets in the first place? Why did they start, and why did they ge tso popular so quickly?

Intersting question Zebedee.

They started in the 1950's as an import from America I believe. Dame Shirley Porter's father was one of the first. Hence Tesco.

The old Home and Colonial and Sainsbury stores were NOT supermarkets, but employed staff who served the public. I can remember my gran buying coffee, which was ground to her specification, bacon sliced exactly as she liked it and butter patted into paper for her from the Home and Colonial Stores. In the 60's our local Co-op store had a magical machine that counter staff put money into and pinged off into space to the accounts office, where a receipt was written and change put into the canister before being pinged back to the customer.

Money was to be made by doing away with staff, offering customers less choice and expecting them to serve themselves before paying for goods. Nowadays they even do away with checkout staff and have machines that shout at you for payment.

I don't think any customer ever asked for a supermarket, but with the arrival of the two wage household and 24-7 working practices people seem to think they are wonderful.