freitasm: Unmasked idiots using public transport.

Especially when they start bloody coughing as well.😡

freitasm: Unmasked idiots using public transport.

At least 1/3 were unmasked on my bus to work yesterday. 

I don't like wearing a mask, but I don't decide that I am above the rules or in some way special. I understand that there are people with specific medical/emotional/mental reasons for not being able to wear a mask, but those are rare...certainly not 1/3 of a double decker bus in rush hour. 

That you can recycle milk bottles.....but you can't recycle the lids.   Why have we allowed manufacturers to do this.

davidcole:That you can recycle milk bottles.....but you can't recycle the lids.   Why have we allowed manufacturers to do this.

Here in Christchurch, the reason given for not recycling lids (#1 or #2) is that they are too small for the recycling equipment to sort.

davidcole:

That you can recycle milk bottles.....but you can't recycle the lids.   Why have we allowed manufacturers to do this.

msukiwi:

davidcole:That you can recycle milk bottles.....but you can't recycle the lids.   Why have we allowed manufacturers to do this.

Here in Christchurch, the reason given for not recycling lids (#1 or #2) is that they are too small for the recycling equipment to sort.

That took me by surprise and I just checked my local council's site and you're right; no lids. However, they used to say they were allowed so long as you removed them from the bottle first (confirmed via Wayback Machine). As far as I can tell, this change wasn't publicised here.

Stu:

So fix the equipment and stop stuffing up the planet.

No, I'd say, fix the manufacturers, to not use plastic bottles, and/or, use a lid that is recyclable. 

Either the same plastic as the bottle, or see first point about not using plastic.

As above, technically the lids are recyclable. Milk bottle tops are recycling number 2. Recyclers just won't take them.

Alternatives to plastic bottles are the Tetra Paks, which many (maybe most?) NZ recyclers no longer recycle. Glass is apparently too expensive to use as milk bottles.

Stu:

 

As above, technically the lids are recyclable. Milk bottle tops are recycling number 2. Recyclers just won't take them.

 

Alternatives to plastic bottles are the Tetra Paks, which many (maybe most?) NZ recyclers no longer recycle. Glass is apparently too expensive to use as milk bottles.

 

Eketahuna meats do milk delivery in glass bottles....pity the old days of milk delivery died out from the 90s/late 80s.

They should make lids non-removable, as in you can open them, but they're still attached with a bit of molded plastic so they just hang there.

davidcole

 

 

 

Eketahuna meats do milk delivery in glass bottles....pity the old days of milk delivery died out from the 90s/late 80s.

 

i dont miss the delivery of milk in bottles especially in summer when the milk used to sit out in the sun for 2-3 hours if you were not home to bring it in. 

Youtube. Videos are loudish or quietish, continually adjusting volume

vexxxboy:

 

davidcole

 

Eketahuna meats do milk delivery in glass bottles....pity the old days of milk delivery died out from the 90s/late 80s.

 

 

i dont miss the delivery of milk in bottles especially in summer when the milk used to sit out in the sun for 2-3 hours if you were not home to bring it in. 

 

That's not a packaging problem.  That was a delivery "problem".