Water bottles

[FourEyedPandora]

I don't use water bottles.
They cost too much, when I can just buy a washable cup with a lid and fill it with water from a sink or water fountain.

 

[wasalp]

Ah... so they do just throw them away... what a waste...
What if we like baby seals getting brutally clubbed?
...
Nevermind, I'll just take the caps off...

I really don't mind it helps control the population and is part of a culture.

 

[SD-Fiend]

maybe they save them for the codes on the coke caps

 

[12capital]

Then what the feck do we do with the caps?

What type of fucking bullshit is that?!
This is OUR FUCKING HOME and when we finally start trying to fucking keep it nice, safe, healthy and clean they go dump the recyclables in FUCKING INDIA!
And for what?!
Is it fucking cheaper?!

THAT RIGHT THERE is why I think government should have control of business, corporations etc.

Key words...

...Daily Express.

Are you trying to imply that the daily express is not a legitimate news source?

OT:
Thanks, I'll remember this. Skobvs raises a good point though, I for one will also be removing the small rings around bottles just to be safe.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

-snip-

I really don't mind it helps control the population and is part of a culture.

I don't do any clubbing myself. Not really into that sort of thing. For a start, I'd need a bludgeon...
I wonder if clubbing happens in clubs...
...
I shall one day make it so! It will help control the populations of this country, and become part of the culture! Club a chav!

 

[wasalp]

-snip-

I really don't mind it helps control the population and is part of a culture.

I don't do any clubbing myself. Not really into that sort of thing. For a start, I'd need a bludgeon...
I wonder if clubbing happens in clubs...
...
I shall one day make it so! It will help control the populations of this country, and become part of the culture! Club a chav!

it happens on ice shelves where baby seals chill while the parents go hunting for food. Since they banned the activity for everyone except Inuits there has been an increasing population problem...and baby seals make great boots...just sayin.

 

[moose_man]

wat do we do with the caps then?

 

[sky14kemea]

Damnit, seriously? I always put the caps back on after. -.-

*sigh* I ain't trawling through my bin, its like 30Celsius out there. I'll just make sure to take off ones in the future. -w-

[sub][sub]*grumbles* They want us to recycle so we do but no we have to do nearly all the work, they can't unscrew a few dozen cap lids when they come their way...[/sub][/sub]

 

[Plinglebob]

Snip.

Well it is the Daily Express. Not exactly reliable.

And that was the old Government.

"Monday September 8,2008"

Trust me. The Lib-Dem enviroment minister will sort it out.

The same way I think a Fascist government would take care of all our problems eh?

He's my MP so if he doesn't its my fault he's in power

OT: I reuse squash bottles constantly by just filling them up with squash/water and sticking them in the fridge. Normally have about 3 chilling at once. With the tops sometimes I leave them on, other times I don't depending on my mood/whether theres a top on it.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

I'm sure it differs from place to place how and what they process.
You can easily shred the bottles, cap on or off, and then recycle them.

In fact, I saw no reason for the cap to matter at all, so I checked and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling .

"To obtain the pure PET, the recycled items, such as plastic bottles and containers(the main use for PET), are first inspected for any non PET materials[4]. These materials are then removed and the PET items are sorted into different color fractions, cleaned, and prepared for processing"

Cap's do not matter, urban legend...

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

last i heard everything that was supposed to be getting recycled was getting buried somewhere in India

Any evidence for that claim?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/60409/Rubbish-we-sort-for-recycling-is-dumped-in-India

What type of fucking bullshit is that?!
This is OUR FUCKING HOME and when we finally start trying to fucking keep it nice, safe, healthy and clean they go dump the recyclables in FUCKING INDIA!
And for what?!
Is it fucking cheaper?!

THAT RIGHT THERE is why I think government should have control of business, corporations etc.

Actually it probably is. It probably costs them less to pay any possible fines for dumping the waste than it does to actually put the resources into recycling it.

That's pretty stupid that they just throw them away. My sister's middle school collects bottle caps and recycles them somehow. I don't understand why a company can't do that.

 

[Marter]

I already take them off, so I'm good.

 

[DSK-]

Thanks for the heads up. We have to sort our rubbish (papers, bottles, glass etc) and crush the bottles to get them into the ridiculously small sized boxes that the council gave us. In order to crush them you need to take the tops off

tl;dr

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[swolf]

So i recently learned in school that if you recycle water bottles with the cap still on the recycling plant, company, etc... just throws them away! I want every escapian who reads this thread to remember this.
(i you cant remember to do this then imagine every time you forget a baby seal gets brutally clubbed)
Goodbye

So, I heard a story about a platoon in Basic Training. During their intro to the barracks, the DS made an off-the-cuff comment about how everything a man pleasures himself God kills a kitten. So they posted a pic of a kitten with it's eyes "X"ed out and a running tally. He sees this, asks them about it, says "you guys are sick", leaves to the bathroom, and adds another tally when he returned.