Public debate will discuss how to reduce waste in Bristol

“@green_man - exactly my point - ALL milk used to be sold in glass bottles - now only that which is doorstep delivered is in proper bottles - but the vast majority (ie supermarkets etc.) is in plastic.”

“@ Pyronaught "Milk used to be in a glass bottle - simply sterilise and re-use. Now it's a plastic bottle..."

Er...milk can still be bought in glass bottles. Mine is delivered by the milkman every other day. Its probably the most environmentally-freindly way to buy milk because the bottles are used and reused many times over. We need more of such reuse systems. Support your local milk deliveries!!”

“The daft thing about 'recycling' is that the development of the packaging that everything comes in is what causes the problem! Milk used to be in a glass bottle - simply sterilise and re-use. Now it's a plastic bottle that has, for a long time been nigh on impossible to recycle anyway - or a waxed cardboard carton that you can't put out with the ordinary cardboard! Toys that used to be banned because they may have contained a piece of wire are now secured in a cardboard and plastic box using long lengths of wire, tightly wound around the toy and then, in some cases, screwed to the base as well!! Fruit and veg in plastic wrappings etc. etc. etc. It irritates me intensely that we get charged with having to sort all this stuff out and then pay someone to collect it - when we have had to buy the packaging in the first place. And of course, - where we once had one refuse lorry, we now have 3 to collect all the component parts of the rubbish - great for the environment - lots of extra pollution. It really is utter madness. I do sort out rubbish to a certain extent - but I do have some sympathy with Big_Gregory as well!!”

“@Big_Gregory

Because once you have thrown all your waste into a black bin it's far harder to sort out than if you were less lazy and did it yourself. Organic items start to decompose and contaminate other items. As has already been said, why should we pay for your laziness?

Maybe the day will come when the country has no more landfill sites left and it will be illegal to dump all your rubbish in one bin... then you might have the pleasure of sorting rubbish yourself at her majesty's pleasure.”

“There are plenty of people who do nothing all day long who can sort all the rubbish for us - prisoners being an example. What is wrong with everything being collected together and then getting sorted into recycling - far more would get recycled that way and the streets would look tidier.”

“That's a great effort Big Gregory.
You do realise of course that we (taxpayers) have to pay collectiviely for every tonne of waste sent to landfill? So we're paying because you're too lazy to put a few jars in a different box, or put your food waste in the brown bin.

And that landfill space is restricted in the UK - we're fast running out of places to dump our rubbish.

Is not about bullying by councils, it's about councils trying to save taxpayers' money on a tax that can be easily avoided, if you just make a tiny effort.

Still, as long as you can throw stuff away, well done Big Gregory.”

“If councillor Hopkins was committed to "Our approach has been about involving the public in solutions" then he would have given more than 24 hours notice of the meeting.”

“Big-gregory shows exactly why we will end up with chip and bin.”

“I don't sort any rubbish - everything goes in my black bin. I just cannot stand bullying council's trying to force everyone to do what they want. I don't believe for one minute that any counsellor is doing this for their social conscience or some blinkered idea of saving the planet. People like Gary Hopkins have been placed in such positions are get praised and presumably well rewarded for exceeding their targets - that is their motivation.

Why not go back to weekly collections without having different plastic containers causing an eyesore in every Bristol Street. Send everything to landfill where convicts in chain gangs can manually sort through the rubbich for us?”

“Easy - get rid of the council ;-)”