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lynnski wrote:I don't think so Onny but you could always try this lot, they charge a minimum of £39 though!
http://www.junk-it-scotland.com/terms.htm
"In Scotland, we estimate that currently around 30 per cent to 40 per cent of glass bottles are recycled and around 35 per cent of household plastic bottles are recycled, using existing arrangements such as bottle banks in the street or elsewhere and kerbside collections.
"While these figures are undoubtedly an improvement on where we once were, there is still more we can do.
onyirtodd wrote:I recently tried to donate the contents of one of my spare rooms to a number of charities in Glasgow. It was, admittedly, a mixed bag of stuff - a dining table, a bed, a TV/video stand (brand new/ boxed), a printer a monitor and a scanner, several hundred copies of GQ, FMH, Arena etc, a couple of VHS recorders, some tumblers (boxed), a couple of bottled gas fires and a couple of boxes of ornaments. All perfectly usable or saleable.
I got hold of one of these and emailed a dozen or so potential recipients. Most didn't reply and the ones which did wanted to pick and choose what they'd take.
I could, over a period of time, leave it out for the increasing unreliable bulk uplift. I don't know what happens to it then. Landfill? The better stuff syphoned off to one of the second hand shops for a few quid to the bin men? I know some stuff left for bulk uplift doesn't sit on the pavement for long enough for the bin men to get there. White van man pops round in the middle of the night and takes anything they think they can re-sell.
I'd like to see some sort of set up run by the council or a group of charities which would uplift from your home to a distribution shed so interested parties could share it out there. I've not found such a system yet. Does it exist?
Efforts to cut by half the number of plastic carrier bags supermarkets give their customers have narrowly failed.
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