Can these go into the white sack for plastics?
G Lord ● 5258d37 Comments
Hello all Here is a company you can send your unwanted VHS, Betamax, CDs, DVDs, audio cassettes and floppy discs to.http://www.ems-europe.co.uk/no-limits-to-domestic-vhs-recycling/Last year David in Harrow collected over 2000 VHS tapes from Harrow residents and got them collected http://www.therubbishdiet.org.uk/a-real-rubbish-revolutionary/ But now people can just send their own tapes straight to the company. Sarah
Sarah Kersey ● 3922d
If you are only interested in your money's worth then you need to make the very best use of the services that the Council provides.If people did this then they would have very little residual waste. You can hardly call the way that some people put their waste and recycling out first rate! It is quite disgusting. It takes two to tango.You'll save money if you make less waste and are more thoughtful and less easily swayed by the heavy marketing that goes on. If something is working then don't just throw it away. Dispose of it another legitimate way - use the Council's reusable stuff collection or find a charity shop or use freecycle or another online site to sell or give away.http://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200970/recycling_services/1611/re-use_collection_service
Philippa Bond ● 3935d
Incineration is good.Provided the generated heat is put to good use at least.
Tony Colliver ● 3935d
Speak for yourself regarding not paying enough. If you look at threads on this forum you will see that a second rate service is being delivered. I could post a link but that would be patronising.Paying by weight? That would only lead to more dumping of waste. Again look at this forum, someone had tapes and disks left in their front garden.Why should they pay to dispose of that?Although it is a nice idea to save the planet, it's just a racket to part us with our hard earned cash.
Debbie Edwards ● 3936d
We don't pay enough. In fact quite a few people don't pay anything or pay a reduced rate and certainly don't take enough responsibility. Perhaps paying by weight for the amount of non-recyclable waste we throw away might concentrate some minds on the problem.
Philippa Bond ● 3936d
The way out is called the bin.The service is paid for.Retro vinyal? Have you been reading some wanna be journalist stuff again.Queue the it's in the internet so it must be true URL....
This thread was started in 2011 and everything needs to be checked. It has become much more difficult to find a home for video and audio cassettes. Interestingly though there appears to be a growth in the sale of vinyl records which we once thought were on their way out.
I wish I had known that a hospital took old movie cassettes as I dumped mine In the general waste at Acton recycle centre After asking there if anyone wanted them. I haven't stayed in a hospital for a long time so I'm not up to date with their entertainment offer. Shame, as there were a lot of good films.
Lynda Sixx ● 3937d
I don't believe that the operatives are trained as to what they should be taking. The information should come from whoever actually knows what the Council has contracted to be collected - which logically should be what they put on the website. Originally of course we were told all plastic but then the Plastics Bags themselves started showing through a printed message on them a reduced number of items. Hopefully the most valuable types of the plastics - the bottles - will be separated for recycling. Incineration for energy is only just before landfill in the waste hierarchy. Reuse which you will probably have to find for yourself is far preferable.http://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200970/recycling_services/276/what_happens_to_your_recycling
Philippa Bond ● 3938d
It was probably the recycling people working out they shouldn't have taken them.
Debbie Edwards ● 3942d
Someone threw some unwanted cassettes and discs in our front garden late last night - anti-social vandals!
Gerry Tan ● 3942d
Well, in that case perhaps we should be asking LBE to re-write the recycling information on their website! (Is it LBE who puts the info up?) They list very clearly what they will take on their plastics page. What will happen to the cassettes I wonder? Perhaps we need a media person to find out.
Philippa Bond ● 3942d
Many thanks, Philippa.They did take the cassettes.I was a little doubtful as to whether they would so I'm very please.Chris
Chrius Moxey ● 3942d
http://westlondonwaste.gov.uk/take-action/This gives alternatives.Also some Events in the Events section including Hanwell Carnival and some interesting smoothies.
Philippa Bond ● 3943d
http://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200970/recycling_services/288/plastic_recycling
Philippa Bond ● 3947d
Huge time lag here... but I have just telephoned the council and asked if I can put my old music cassette tapes into the white plastic recycling bag and was told that I can.I would have emailed them as I wasn't in a hurry for an answer but I went to a page on the council's website, headed 'Contact us' which gave me no useful info on contacting them unless I wanted to complain, which I didn't! The process was a little frustrating (but partly bemusing). I went through their menu system and selected the recycling option, only to be directed back to the website for contact info (which isn't there) unless I was interested in talking to someone about garden waste. So I plumped for that anyway and they didn't seem to mind! However, I'm not sure I can rely on the garden waste expert's opinion about cassette tapes. I shall give it a go next Monday and see what transpires :)Chris
Chrius Moxey ● 3949d
I think it all depends on the specific area - many parts of Wales are beautiful. Does sound like you have something against the Welsh.
F Stone ● 5242d
Is it because they are so poor they can't afford these things?
G Lord ● 5242d
TrueA goverment committed from 'top to bottom' to recycling.A commitment to keeping public loos and libraries open.Free NHS prescriptionsFree eyetestsFree dental check-ups.Free parking in hospitals.The only town in Britain (Aberyswyth) with NO parking wardens.Yes, Wales is a truly horrible place to live - NOT!
Nigel Brooks ● 5242d
phlippant? When the Welsh Parliament have the cojones to bring in a law banning free carrier bags?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15010561There is a strong plastics lobby.
Philippa Bond ● 5242d
You have to pay for carriers in M&S as well.I am all for reusing any carrier bags given to me whilst shopping.Could you not tell that G Lord was being flippant when mentioning Wales?
http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/20070129/how-can-i-reuse-or-recycle-vhs-video-tapesWales is seriously going for zero waste and you have to pay for carrier bags there now.
Not if they are found to be in Wales, nothing wrong with Wales. Besides anyone can pick up things from the green recycling bins - you never know they could next be found on sale in the local charity shop.
F Stone ● 5243d
"what Dai know? Taken." Don't ever believe that just because they pick something up means that it is recyclable or will be recycled! It might be... or landfilled or perhaps more likely to be incinerated. We'll just have to speculate.
Philippa Bond ● 5243d
Well after asking all my friends, I couldn't find a final resting place for the home taped albums of Peggy Lee and John Denver.So this morning they were all put into plastic recycling and what d'ya know? Taken.My take on it is that if they aren't used for recycling, they will be used to reclaim some land in a pointless part of the world like wales.So everyone is a winner really.
G Lord ● 5243d
Recycle Now (www.recyclenow.com) have now adjusted their info to tell everyone to check their Local Recycling with regard to videos. That means - start by having a look at the Council website (and if it isn't clear or if you have more info - tell the Council). The info held for different Councils is submitted by each Council - so if you know it is not correct - tell your Council AND Recycle Now that it is not correct and needs updating.Remember though that RECYCLING is an end of life process that comes after REUSE.Ealing is just one member of the London Boroughs which make up the the West London Waste Authority. Check out what is happening on their website here: http://www.westlondonwaste.gov.uk/or just take a look at what our neighbouring boroughs are doing and enter a competition...
Philippa Bond ● 5250d
As a diversion I thought I'd check out Recycle Now.http://www.recyclenow.com/what_can_i_do_today/can_it_be_recycled/miscellaneous/recycle_videotapes.htmlWell here they say they can't recycle them unless it is just a poorly worded website message that should have started with If... as it then goes onto reuse options. I contacted Recycle Now and they said that the info they have is whatever our Council has sent them - only it looks like a general message to me... When you look at what you can take to Ealing's Reuse & Recycling Centres on the Council website it says there is a container for a charity. Technically I suppose it is not Recycling. It is Reuse. But then neither Incineration or Landfill is Recycling.Where is the waste hierarchy pyramid on the Council website?
Philippa Bond ● 5255d
There you are, Sarah says yes please for the Scouts. You just need to check that they are pre-recorded and nothing naughty etc.Anybody else got anything else from her long list of wishes for the Scouts' bazaar?
council guidance says you can take CDs, DVDs & cassettes to Acton recycling centre (along with mobiles, old TVs, cassette players, hi-fis, computer equipment). I think Greenford does too. Hope this helps.
Terry Jones ● 5256d
You're not talking about that programme about shops closing in West Ealing are you? I remember thinking that the only thing missing from the programme was the lone ball of tumbleweed rolling down the road.Re video tapes - if push comes to shove why not take the tape out of the cassettes and put the carcase in with the plastic recycling?
F Stone ● 5257d
How about Sarah's Scouts' Bazaar?
Philippa Bond ● 5257d
Do do do watch the Dispatches programme. It is the last day it is available to watch again on Channel 4. It shows what is happening in different areas. It shows how our current system gives a far better quality of recyclate. From looking at the info on the Council website I understand that there is still a container for them at Stirling Road Reuse & Recycling Centre. Recycling is an end of life solution that is better than plain landfill. We are supposed to be reducing our waste and that means reusing whatever we can before recycling or landfilling. I have yet to see a waste hierarchy pyramid on the Council website waste pages.
Philippa Bond ● 5258d
Because any dealings with the council seem to take weeks.No I haven't seen the Dispatches programme and recall it wasn't that long ago we were here discussing a TV show that was nothing but doom and gloom featuring several places around Ealing/West Ealing. Best not to be taken in by TV shows, its often make believe.Thanks for the offer of taking the tapes, but I fear they may not be suitable, they were part of an ebay haul and were in the box along with the other junk.
G Lord ● 5258d
So why not ask the Council to clarify? There must be at least one Recycling Officer and we have the Councillors who are busy scrapping over recycling rates. Lets see if we can get a consensus of opinion.Did you watch the Dispatches programme?While we are at it we might get each of them to tell us how they define 'polystyrene'. (Punk Rocker as an answer is invalid)If they want to get their recycling rates up they need to make their info clear.
I can't give you a yes or no to your original question, but I go to Charing Cross Hospital regularly (great orthopaedics department) and I would be happy to take them over there for you.
Nigel Brooks ● 5258d
Thanks for the reply. Is that a yes or no?The info page doesn't say they can be recycled but then it doesn't say they can't.
If you don't think that the Council's waste and recycling information pages are clear then please contact them. We need the information on our Council's website to be easily accessible and understood.Contracts change so information changes.Reuse comes before recycle. How about freecycling your videos? When I was last at Charing Cross Hospital the League of Friends was happy to take pre-recorded ones.