Rid of the Rubbish and Recycle the Rest

Advantages: Cleaner environment
Disadvantages: None!

...Do I recycle ? Yes Do I do it well ? No However I am trying my best and with each piece of recyclable rubbish I am learning. Recycling seems to be all the rage, the in thing, one of many things you will be penalised for if you refuse to do it. As speculation mounts regarding technology to monitor the contents of our bins perhaps its time to tackle the government head on and prove that we do not need a big brother society to make us recycle. The system is easy. Recycling at home: The symbol which accompanies this review guides the household on which items can or cannot be recycled. If they have the green arrows then put them in the green bin. I have a habit of believing that plastic is plastic and therefore it is worthy of my recycling bin, I am wrong. SOME plastics belong in the real bin, the waste bin (as I found...

carysb 25.04.2007 · Read review
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Recycle your old mobile phones and earn £££!

Advantages: Make money through recycling your old mobiles
Disadvantages: Avoid sites which reserve the right to pay upto 90% of the phones value

...Recycle your old mobile phones and earn £££! If you have never come across mobile phone recycling or even heard of it. After reading this article you will be more than aware of its benefits. I recycle all the time. Im a big fan of it and when i realised that i can make money from it, i loved it even more! I found out that i can make money through recyling when i decided to recyle my old mobiles with a service provider called mopay.co.uk. At first i thought it sounded too good to be true, but after trying it out, im more than happy to spread the word so you can all benefit! They offer a FREEPOST address and payment within 7 working days of them reciving the handset according to their website. They did just that too! I managed to get over £65 for some old phones i had sat im my drawers - not bad for a little bit of recycling. If i...

RickyP2 25.11.2008 · Read review
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Recycle your bicycle - re-use your glass

Advantages: Protects our planet
Disadvantages: Destroys our planet

...the western world it is often cheaper to make new glass containers than to “recycle” old glass. What we seem to have forgotten in the UK is that re-use of glass makes far more sense than “recycling”, or reprocessing old glass. For anyone who does not know, glass is a hard, transparent or translucent brittle material that does not dissolve is not flammable. It can withstand high temperatures and is resistant to many corrosive substances such as acids and alkalis. Glass is made from high silica sand (silicon dioxide), which is heated until it melts and then left to cool. The temperature needed to melt sand is very high--about 1,700 degrees C. Materials can be added to the sand to reduce the melting point to about 800 degrees C, the most common of which is([Na.sub.2]O), which comes from sodium carbonate (soda ash, [Na...

TrueChristian 06.10.2001 · Read review
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Recylce, reuse, re-what?!

Advantages: See text.
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...I would just like to write a review on recycling, something that I am sure almost every single person has heard something about and has got their own thoughts or views on it. Whereas I see that other people also have their own opinions (for which they are in fact freely entitled to), I would just like to offer my own in such a way that I hope you see where I come from. We are encouraged to recycle as much as we can from our households; work places, in fact anywhere that uses materials that could potentially be reused in some form or another. Because of the dramatic increase in recent years of the amouont of waste that has been sent to our landfill sites, we have been urged to make use of things in a different way. Recycling Most if not all councils now provide a recycling service of some degree, whereby bins and/ or other...

dynamicnurse 14.04.2009 (03.10.2009) · Read review
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recycle more

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

...I am going to write this op with the purpose of helping people do their part in helping to save the environment. I think that it's time more people got into the habit of doing some good for the world as in generations to come the world, and the environment we live in will be ruined for good. Here I have thought of some tips for those who dont usually do things such as recycle, so here they are and I hope you find them useful. ~~~RECYCLE~~~ Nearly anything can be redycled these days, bottles and cans obviously but a lot of people don't realise that things such as plastic carrier bags that collect in cupboards and drawers can also be recycled too. When I was a child I used to love going to the bottle bank with my Mum, so if you have kids yourself, its a bit of fun for them too. What we do is collect the newspapers we read...

micjb 07.06.2003 · Read review
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I wheelie like this one!

Advantages: Great fun, good quality
Disadvantages: none that i can think of!

...Playmobil Recycling Truck This toy was bought as a christmas gift for my son by a relative, it was something that he had asked for a while ago because as with many little boys he loves watching the bin men and has done since he was about 1! The truck came in a cardboard box with colour pictures of the truck and parts in use all over it and it was part assembled. The recommended age for the truck is five years plus. Assembley The shell of the truck was already assembled in the box and the accessories were packaged seperately in a plastic bag. The tipping mechanism had to be attached to the rear of the truck and then the 'fun' bit for me was following the diagram in the instruction booklet and applying the 20+ stickers in their rightful places. We then unpacked the bag of accessories, there are three wheelie bins included...

charlotte_thomas 30.01.2009 · Read review
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Get paid for recycling!

Advantages: You get cash or Argos vouchers for old mobiles
Disadvantages: Your mobile might not be worth much

...For those of you who?ve never heard of Envirofone then you?ll be pleasantly surprised if you have any old mobiles lying about the house. They basically pay you for your old mobile and they recycle it at no extra cost to you. They even pay for your postage and packaging as well so you have nothing to lose! After reading a review about Envirofone I went off to investigate as I had an old Sony Ericsson K700i lying about and figured I may as well find out if it?s worth anything. The homepage is professional looking and has everything you need to know at first at a glance. Like most people I went straight for the drop down box to put in my mobile to see what it was worth. So you can have a look how much it is worth without joining. I did this and found out that my mobile was worth £21.87 or £25.26 in Argos credit. For a phone that I hadn...

salem_witch 12.06.2007 (01.08.2007) · Read review
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This is literally Crap Paper

Advantages: Might be cheap
Disadvantages: Hurts, hurts...and isn't soft

.... Toilet paper as we all know now a days comes in many forms and formats, from the soft to the quilted, double quilted, scented, cheap to the expensive, the recycled to the erm...reused? (probably, we all know that someone is stupid enough to buy it). We I have here is the Soft Nouvelle Recycled toilet paper, that must have been considerably cheaper than the rest of the options available to my mother as she bought a pack with 12 rolls in. As my mother is quite miserly at times, and with toilet paper just ending up covered in human made chocolate mouse, it may be fair to assume she's bought some crap paper here (excuse the pun). The first thing we shall look at is the paper as a whole, pre-usage, each sheet is two sheets thick, with no smell, no quilted feeling, just bog standard (yes yes I know, the last one was better) tissue paper. It looks...

iamasadlittleboy 17.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nouvelle Recycled Toilet Tissues

  Re-Cycled Engine Oil!

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Turns you into a human greaseball

...of sweet, sickly smell that didn?t particularly appeal to me. I was later to discover after looking at the tin that this is most likely coconut, the oil of which is one of the ingredients. ~ ~ Anyways, did Dax cure my bad hair problem, and will I continue to use it? The answer to the first part of the question is a qualified yes, and to the second part an undoubted no! Dax certainly licked my errant strands into shape very quickly. So greasy is this product that once in place my hair felt like it had been immersed in a barrel of re-cycled engine oil! My hair was sleek and shiny, and incredibly easy to comb into place. But NOT clean and shiny in the way you achieve after a good shampoo, but more like the appearance of an old fella with a tub of Brylcreem plastered on his head. I could easily have stood in for the ?Fonz? in the old American...

the_mad_cabbie 05.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of Dax Wax

What a Load of Rubbish !

Advantages: Save the Planet
Disadvantages: Can be a dirty job

...It doesn’t take a genius to work out that if we go on using the worlds resources the way we are then before long there will not be any left. It is very much of case of the three wise monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil. The Three wise monkeys See No Evil How many of us just simply close our eyes to the fact that we are wasting the worlds resources at such a rate that soon we will have no choice to re-use and recycle our resources because there will be no new ones left to use. It is too easy to leave it to the next generation to ‘sort it out’, but by then we will be living on a post apocalyptic rubbish tip, scavenging what we can to make ends meet. Picture if you will the scenes of devastated cities like Berlin after WWII with emaciated civilians picking out scraps of food from piles of rubble...

jouk04 03.12.2006 · Read review
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