Donald I, emperor of the world.

[Pblakeney]

It's not a clear-cut thing about paper bags, in environmental terms, once you take things such as transportation costs and water usage into account.

Go even older then. Cloth bags used for nigh on a lifetime, made from old clothes.

 

[briantrumpet]

Go even older then. Cloth bags used for nigh on a lifetime, made from old clothes.

As long as they aren't so old they were made from cotton from plantations full of slaves...

 

[Ian H]

Waste paper is worth between £35 and £70 per ton and corrugated cardboard between %0 and £120 per ton.
The value of High-Density Polyethylene (HPPE) waste plastic in the UK fluctuates, but in mid-2024, natural HDPE bales were valued between approximately £465-£565 per tonne and mixed colour HDPE bales between £240-£320 per tonne, according to data from letsrecycle.com. The type of plastic, its purity, and market demand significantly influence its price, with high-purity HDPE being more valuable than mixed-colour waste.

I suspect a lot is still not recycled. Waste plastic in the wild is more problematic than paper.

When I was in Sri Lanka, paper bags were made out of old exam papers. Some of them were interesting to read.

 

[Pinno718]

As long as they aren't so old they were made from cotton from plantations full of slaves...

Why did you throw that spanner in?!

 

[Pinno718]

I suspect a lot is still not recycled.

Millions of tons.
Your average Joe living on benefits who is in receipt of council tax reduction doesn't give a monkeys if he/she is not separating waste.
The number of overflowing general waste bins I see in the 'schemes' is noticeable.
We have fortnightly collection of General waste and 4 weekly collection of plastics/metal and 4 weekly collection of paper. We often don't put out the general waste. So it is more than possible, it takes will.

 

[Pinno718]

Anyhoo, this really is going off track and I am surprised our resident compartmentalisation specialist hasn't chucked a wobbly.

 

[briantrumpet]

Anyhoo, this really is going off track and I am surprised our resident compartmentalisation specialist hasn't chucked a wobbly.

Fair comment. Not sure quite where it all went wrong. Someone wasn't paying attention to the map.

 

[briantrumpet]

So, to get it back on track, Bondi didn't answer a single question she was asked in the oversight committee hearing. Instead, she just read stuff out from her briefing notes with personal attack lines on the Democratic senators.

I'd have thought that would have been grounds for charging her with technical (and literal) contempt of Congress.

https://bsky.app/profile/denisedwheeler.bsky.social/post/3m2n7gvwiqc2w

 

[Pinno718]

She ought to be pulled up for her over use of peroxide.

 

[BoldonLad]

But did you throw the lit bin at a hotel?

Didn’t have hotels where I lived 😊

 

[Dorset Boy]

I believe in France you cannot sell pre-packed fruit and veg which must save both on packaging waste and food waste.
What's with cucumbers being wrapped in plastic?

 

[cookiemonster]

I believe in France you cannot sell pre-packed fruit and veg which must save both on packaging waste and food waste.
What's with cucumbers being wrapped in plastic?

You should see supermarkets here in Hong Kong and Japan. Everything fruit and veg wise, and I mean everything, is wrapped in plastic and sometimes placed on a polystyrene tray.

It's completely idiotic.

But the HK Gov will fine small cafe's for giving you a straw or a plastic fork.

 

[Psamathe]

What's with cucumbers being wrapped in plastic?

<offtopic>
Something that drives me mad in the UK. How come rest of Europe manages without wrapping all their cucumbers in plastic but it's a non-starter for the UK. Few years ago I wrote to Waitrose about it and just got the "cut & paste" reply about them continually working towards ...

Some product is getting worse for plastic packaging eg Nescafe coffee sachets used to by some sort of tearable paper yet for at least the last 6 months completely plastic needing scissors to cut . Same product in France is not in sachets but in a card based plastic free container you use a teaspoon with.

Why are our Government not acting on this sort of thing given the complete lack of any improvement from "self-regulation". Very easy to address - just make a law saying every vendor has to take back plastic packaging that can't go in recycling. Enough people would take their plastics into supermarkets so they'd soon be forcing manufacturers.
</offtopic>

 

[Dorset Boy]

<offtopic>
Something that drives me mad in the UK. How come rest of Europe manages without wrapping all their cucumbers in plastic but it's a non-starter for the UK. Few years ago I wrote to Waitrose about it and just got the "cut & paste" reply about them continually working towards ...

Some product is getting worse for plastic packaging eg Nescafe coffee sachets used to by some sort of tearable paper yet for at least the last 6 months completely plastic needing scissors to cut . Same product in France is not in sachets but in a card based plastic free container you use a teaspoon with.

Why are our Government not acting on this sort of thing given the complete lack of any improvement from "self-regulation". Very easy to address - just make a law saying every vendor has to take back plastic packaging that can't go in recycling. Enough people would take their plastics into supermarkets so they'd soon be forcing manufacturers.
</offtopic>

Or make it the law that all 'food' packaging must be recyclable, and can go in your green bin.

 

[First Aspect]

I believe in France you cannot sell pre-packed fruit and veg which must save both on packaging waste and food waste.
What's with cucumbers being wrapped in plastic?

Ooh err.