4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Happymama]

I posted 2kg of tetrapaks for £5.33. I had to open my box and remove 500g otherwise if went in the next bracket - £7 something. Still, I could send 4kg for that, so it might be worth saving a lot.

 

I'm not sure that I should have to pay so much to recycle though.

 

It's probably cheaper to get more and post them via a parcel carrier. We should get together and get loads and split the difference.

 

I get juice ones, two a week, but that's all. Not too bad.

 

I should think that Tetra must be feeling a bit embarrased now that their wonderful idea that made it's inventor so much money and made them so big are now representing the recycling bugbear of the industry!

[Happymama]

And you can burn them in your woodburning fire, then fish out the aluminium linings and recycle those!

[Trish]

OOo can you. Once I've murdered my builder, served the prison sentence and then get the chimney put right I might try that. Still fighting over the chimney by the way. It failed a building inspection this week but the builder still thinks it's fine, doesn't work but it's fine

[Tina C]

I panicked when I read this - I put them in my recycling bin. Checked the website and its OK - Huntingdonshire does recycle them. Seems like we live in one of the few areas that do. So, if you are ever passing, bring your tetra packs to me - just pop them in the blue bin, or ring the bell if you need a cup of tea!

 

I wonder what the council does with the tetra packs though? They are hell bent on being top of the recycling tree - we can even put bones and other table s"Ooops, word censored!"s in our green bins - but I wonder if they get 'brownie' points for collecting stuff rather than what they do with it if you see what I mean.

[Guest]

http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/locator.asp

 

I just happened to check the site today and found that there is more tetrapak recycling going on, in my area at least. Check the interactive map linked above.

 

I am thrilled to find my local Tesco at Gatwick is recycling them, so I no longer have to pay to post them to Somerset!

 

We just went to Tesco and the recycling plant there is great fun!! The children loved it. No need to sort your recycling, the machine does it for you and it crushes everything as well. I have to admit to enjoying hi-tech things so recycling this way was so much more fun than posting things into those awful skips with brushes in the holes which I don't want to touch. It's a shame the tetrapaks can't go in this machine too, but hey - I'm thrilled to save the money and we had fun

 

Edit: The Tesco site describes the machine - and it seems I'm a little behind with the news. It's been going for nearly 2 years now!

http://www.tescocorporate.com/page.aspx?pointerid=353CCD4F8BB84F8EBF016D9BF06DC743

[AmandaR]

Thanks for that Ginette.

I didn't know Tesco at Gatwick recycles the tetra packs. I have a big box of them that I was about to post this week.

You've just saved me a few pounds!

[Helly Welly]

Our council has bins located around the town for both tetrapaks and aluminium foil, a quick trip on my trike is all that's needed. The only thing that goes in our bin is plastic packaging

[Louise]

My council collects tetra packs for recycling now

[Guest]

Thanks for that Ginette.

I didn't know Tesco at Gatwick recycles the tetra packs. I have a big box of them that I was about to post this week.

You've just saved me a few pounds!

 

Quite - I'm thrilled.

[Keanie Bean]

I've just caught up on this, I think it's really awful that any council shouldnt even recycle plastic, and I really cant see why if one council can recycle tetra pak why cant they all! Including mine. At least i can take it to my mums. Daniel has soya milk so we get through heaps of the stuff.

 

Sarah.x

[jomaxsmith]

My local tip apparently does recycle them - which means i now should collect them separately (my enormous shed already fills up with cardboard on a regular basis).

 

Until now I've put them in my recyclables wheelie bin knowing full well they can't be recycled in order to persuade the council of the need.

 

Jo

[Sunshine]

We take ours to our local recyling place.Since we started recyling them it has made us realise how many we used to go through as a family of 6 who all like different juices. Our council also doesn't collect plastics so we take them at the same time.

[Mutrix Farmers]

Typical, nowhere in Kent offers this except the Medway Unitary Authority.

 

I feel an email coming on to the Recycling Manager at the local council (as the Payroll Manager that pays his salary perhaps I could use a bit of "persuasion" along the lines of sort it out or I won't pay you!!!!)

 

Shame Tetrapak don't offer a freepost service, I'm sure more people would use the service, and they obviously get an income from recycling (having charged us to buy the carton in the first place) that could subsidise it.

[Charlottechicken]

Shame Tetrapak don't offer a freepost service, I'm sure more people would use the service, and they obviously get an income from recycling (having charged us to buy the carton in the first place) that could subsidise it.

 

The Tetra pak family are the richest in the UK I think, albeit originally from one of the Scandinavian countries. They are worth about 6 billion pounds, and usually appear on the top of the rich lists. Pity they can't take their creation back freepost. Maybe we should start an email/letter campaign

[Egluntyne]

Waitrose and Sainsbury's recycle them in Sheffield.

 

Edited to add the "Y" to Sainsbury's

Edited June 17, 2008 by Guest

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I hadn't appreciated how "green" Edinburgh City Council is . We get cardboard then glass & bottle collections alternate weeks. Plastic has to go to the supermarket but that's not hard to do. Also brown "garden" waste fortnightly.

 

I've always put the Tetrapaks in with the cardboard. Glad I was supposed to .

[Charlottechicken]

Just thought I would bump this informative post up for anyone keen to recycle tetra paks. I've been staring at an empty juice one this morning, wondering what to do, but am now inspired to find out if Birmingham recycle them or not.

 

 

Edited to add; yes Birmingham recycle tetra paks but they have to be taken to the household recycling centre. I'm not far from one so will collect my tetra paks and have a walk up in a few months time! They take batteries too!

[Guest]

I'm very pleased that my local Tesco takes Tetrapaks now, so I don't have to post them to the West Country!

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Our local council have just started accepting tetrapacks in the recycling bins......all we need now are the yoghurt pots & plastic trays to be taken

 

Oh yes and glass...they don't take glass from us either

 

Sha x

[Helly Welly]

Ours takes all plastic apart from wrap and also polystyrene trays. It takes us two weeks to fill a bin now, and then we only change it because it'll smell. Some areas get their glass taken, not ours unfortunately, but we take it to the tip. There are numerous recycling points around town for cartons so we have to take them but i'm really impressed with how much our council recycles now, i believe that Leicestershire is now the top county for recycling.

[welovemarmite]

I panicked when I read this - I put them in my recycling bin. Checked the website and its OK - Huntingdonshire does recycle them. Seems like we live in one of the few areas that do. So, if you are ever passing, bring your tetra packs to me - just pop them in the blue bin, or ring the bell if you need a cup of tea!

 

I wonder what the council does with the tetra packs though? They are hell bent on being top of the recycling tree - we can even put bones and other table s"Ooops, word censored!"s in our green bins - but I wonder if they get 'brownie' points for collecting stuff rather than what they do with it if you see what I mean.

 

 

Yay - going to save them up and give them to my mum - I too have been puting them in my recycling and just realised that I can't - its so confusing!!!

[Ms Marple]

This has been an interesting read to see what happens around the country. My local council- Stockport, started blue and brown bins back in November. The blue bins are fro paper, telephone directories, cardboard, tetrapack cartons whereas the bown are for bottles,cans and plastic milk bottles. I just wish we could do more with thingas like yoghurt cartons and polystyrene trays.

[DonnaS]

Thankfully my council recycles them. Seeing this thread, however, reminded me of something I'd read in the Ecologist recently - which looked at both tin cans (of tomatoes for example) and compared recyclability (and carbon footprint) with the new in supermarket tetrapak cartons of tomatoes (you've probably noticed them and wondered if they were better for the environment than tin cans). Well, upshot is that the new cartons of tomatoes (beans, etc etc) are more environmentally friendly than the tin cans! Bit of a surprise to me - but there you go. Can I find the Ecologist article to link to now...? No.... But it's there somewhere.

 

Cheers..

[Guest]

I heard a discussion about that on Radio 4. I too was surprised.

[Snowy]

I recently discovered that the waxed lined cartons make brilliant firelighters for those with woodburners!