Thirsty Aussies

[Lulu2]

WHAT? London doesn't recycle?

[OzBoy]

Originally Posted by Lulu2

WHAT? London doesn't recycle?

I've been here just over a year and it was only about 3 months ago that we actually got a recycle service in our area at all. And when I say service I mean bright plastic orange bags left on our doorsteps that we can only put paper, tins and some plastics in, dont get me wrong we think its great they are finally doing something but lets again consider the size of this place, the population and this is only just starting to happen now??? And what about all the glass??? Back home we have three recycle wheelie bins, and one of those is split into two inside for even more efficient recycling processing (trying to keep costs down at the plant) and we've been doing that for at least the past 10-12 years so it astounds me that places like London appear to not give a toss Admittedly there are boroughs out there miles from the CBD that have some form of recycling but Ive seen on tv where they still have to load their cars and take all this rubbish to a recycle plant miles away, I mean lets put the effort in Im all for that but why arent govt's and councils making it easier for EVERYONE to participate as not all people have cars to get to the plants

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by OzBoy

Coming from the great land of Oz and being born and raised in far Nth QLD I spent the best part of 16 years living with water restrictions. I then moved to Sydney (the biggest city in the country) my kitchen tap water was turning brown and smelt evil and we had 360 days left of clean drinking water from our main dam!!!! I move to London and low and behold there are water restrictions here too Is it me or is the planet like tryin desperatley to give us a flamin hint????????

What I want to ask all those wankers out there who believe its more important to spend two hours washing your car on the street with a hand hose, water your luscious gardens to the point of saturation in the hottest part of the day and hose down your concrete paths and driveways - where DO YOU THINK we're going to get sustainable clean safe drinking water from once its gone??? And Im sorry if this offends but adding to this problem in (Sydney especially) is ignorant attituides from migrant populations who show blantant disrespect to the non renewable resources the fine country they chose to move too is fast loosing EVERYONE has a responsbility to respect their chosen environments and relying on ones sudden inability to speak or read english just isnt a good enough excuse in my book.

I'm sorry but I can look out for my front door and see as many trees as I ever could - Global Warming must be bullsh!t!

[Lulu2]

Can't see the forest for the trees, eh?

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by Lulu2

Can't see the forest for the trees, eh?

Unfortunately, some pelple cannot!

[Imladris]

Ozboy, you're right we are crap at recycling in this country.
My local council introduced recycling bins a while ago and we can now recycle tin cans, newspaper, plastic milk bottles etc but to do this we went from one wheelie bin to two, we have kitchen caddies to get the composting scraps and two plastic boxes to help us separate stuff for recycling day.

We have a two week cycle for putting stuff out so in the summer you end up with maggots in your composting bin. On recycling day the lorry goes round twice, first to empty the boxes then the bin.

So not only do we have more plastic boxes and bins to be made and distributed we have more runs in the bin lorry.

None of this makes sense to me but I suppose they are at least trying

Originally Posted by Diuretic

Well it's coming home to us now - worst drought in history apparently and there will be severe water restrictions in most states. You're right OzBoy - we are in big strife.

Ain't that the truth,the drought is really starting to bite now

[Okie]

Originally Posted by Snickz

Having trouble posting....


Right it keeps telling me I can't post links (WHAT FLAMMING LINKS???)

anyhow...


Yep, water is a sad state of affairs in Qld, and although once it has been processed it would be cleaner and better for you than the stuff you get out of bottles....it's the thought of where it 'has' been!!

Here in the US there are some cities that use recycled sewer water to water plants. The Alamo does that for sure and they do that at base housing in Fort walton Beach. As we were about to drive past some sprinklers my grandson told me to roll the windows up on the car so the water would not get in. It had a bad smell alright. Not sure if you could actually ever treat it so it did not smell.

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by Okie

Here in the US there are some cities that use recycled sewer water to water plants. The Alamo does that for sure and they do that at base housing in Fort walton Beach. As we were about to drive past some sprinklers my grandson told me to roll the windows up on the car so the water would not get in. It had a bad smell alright. Not sure if you could actually ever treat it so it did not smell.

Sure you could, straight distilation would take out any aromatics - just take more energy than most people want to use.

I'd have thought that Texas would have enough reliable sunshine to use solar ovens to clean as much water as they could need.

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by Bryn Mawr

Sure you could, straight distilation would take out any aromatics - just take more energy than most people want to use.

Remind me to find out how a sewerage farm processes foul drainage. I seem
to remember that it involves screening/filtering, oxygenation, micro-organisms,
and settling tanks, perhaps not in that order!