Colin wrote:
> JNugent wrote:
>> Colin wrote:
>>> Our council does not yet collect plastics for recycling from the
>>> doorstep. Our nearest plastics recycling point is 3/4 of a mile away,
>>> and as squashed milk containers neither take up much room or weight,
>>> can be successfully transported in panniers or the cycle trailer for
>>> larger quantities. Just because *you* can see no practical reason to
>>> go to the recycling center by bike, it does not follow there is *no*
>>> practical reason to go.
>> Is there no recycling facility anywhere but at the tip (like the local
>> supermarket, or even in a local car-park)?
> Yes, there is recycling facilities in the car-park of our nearest town.
> However, as that is further away than our local recycling point, it is
> *more* practical to go to our local recycling center
"More practical" except for the the fact that the people operating the
tip (if yours was the tip in question) have decided that - for whatever
reason - it isn't practical for them to allow bicycles onto the plot" is
what I think you must mean.
[FWIW, I think you really meant "more convenient" - but it's probably
best to let it pass.]
In some ways, it's something of a shame that you don't live next door to
the tip - then you could be even more indignant about how "practical" it
would be to cycle into it. OTOH, if the recycling facilities in the
car-park of your nearest town were next door to you, the situation would
be different (presumably, since distance seems to be your only criterion).
>> I don't think most people would insist on taking squashed milk
>> containers to the tip, even if there was no local recycling collection.
> I wasn't *insisting* anyone does anything. I was saying what I found to
> be practical, therefore showing your argument there could be *no*
> practical reason for cycling to the tip to be false.
But your view on what is practical is clearly not in accordance with
that of the people who have to operate the tip. Whose view should prevail?
>> They would just put such things in the dustbin (which must be OK in
>> that area if the LA does not do a household recycling collection).
>> Trying to argue that taking squashed milk containers to the tip is a
>> terrible problem crying out for a solution strikes me as far-fetched.
> I've re-read my post several times, and nowhere have I seen where I
> tried to argue that point.
It's called "implication".
> This is probably because I never said such a
> thing. If you could restrict the discussion to what people *actually*
> wrote, rather than what you would have liked us to have said to further
> your own argument, then perhaps we could have a reasoned discourse on
> the practicalities or otherwise of cycling to the local tip/recycling
> center.
So let's get this straight...
It isn't a problem (even if it's the tip local to you where the
management won't permit cycling on their facility) but it is a problem
and you think you know better then they do?
If that's not correct, what is the correct way of looking at it?
