Recycling - New Article

[Andy Hamilton]

I have written a new article for the main site - http://www.selfsufficientish.com/recycle.htm need a few tweaks to get it looking good etc. Other than that let me know your thoughts.

Ta Andy

[Muddypause]

Nice enough article, Andy, but on my browser there seems to be a glich in the formatting. The underlines are a full line below the links they pertain to. I took a screenshot:-

[Andy Hamilton]

yep thats the glitches that I am talking of mate, cheers though mate.

[shiney]

A very informative peice Andy and some useful links. The format is ok with my brower, if that's any help!

Tetra paks..a question...do you have to pay the postage on sending them? Not exactly an incentive to recycle them if you do.

Surely, there's a lot of energy used to get them all the way to Scotland!

I wonder if they'll go national or intend to?

[Andy Hamilton]

yep you do have to pay postage, I will look for a freepost address though. I am sure I saw one somewhere.

[shiney]

Thanks, I'd be sending them if it were free to do so!

[Wombat]

Looks OK on my browser to mate!

Nev

[Chickenlady]

That's really good, Andy.

As a former recycling officer for the local council, I would say that it is worth hassling the council to recycle plastics (and tetrapak cartons - why not?) if they don't currently. They do often respond to such pressure if they get enough of it. Best to go direct to your local councillor rather than the recycling people though. They have good intentions but no clout! So perhaps that's worth a mention.

Jane

[Andy Hamilton]

I think they used to recycle plastic here too! Will have to start a Brisol presure group of some kind me thinks

Cheers for the point though I shall add it.

[Tigerhair]

Looks cool to me apart from the apostrophes in Dixons and Currys which aren't required - they should be DSG International plc - who own Dixons, Currys, PC World etc.

I think the paragraph reads better like this:

So, although I am in danger of repeating myself, try your local council first. Otherwise DSG International has recycling facilities in many of their stores, which include Dixons, Currys and PC World.

Sorry to be picky Andy, I just feel that getting a company's name correct is important. Hope you don't mind. Noone, afterall, likes a smartar*e!!!

[Shirley]

looks great - perhaps the letter k and y shouldn't follow each other but hey,, that's just me lol

[Andy Hamilton]

looks great - perhaps the letter k and y shouldn't follow each other but hey,, that's just me lol

- I kind of did that and perpose for people to giggle to themselves with.

- cool will also amend the Dixon's thang, that's spell checker for ya.

[ina]

Gosh, is Scotland really ahead of England in the recycling stakes? All the recycling centres around here take plastic bottles and tetra pak... The only thing we still can't get rid of is plastic tubs (yoghurt, marge, fruit etc.). But I re-use a lot of them (freezing, containers for making yoghurt, planters).

Ina

[wulf]

Nice enough article, Andy, but on my browser there seems to be a glich in the formatting. The underlines are a full line below the links they pertain to.

It seems like a glitch with Firefox - I get the same problem. Did you generate the code from MS Word? The underlying HTML is grossly twisted and bloated with unnecessary markup and "mso" codes. For the sake of making an accessible page that is browseable on the widest range of clients, it would be worth tidying it a bit - do you want me to rework the first paragraph so you can drop it in and see if it makes any difference?

Wulf (fully self-sufficient when it comes to web-coding )

[Andy Hamilton]

Kind of did it with a mixture of word and so lite editor. I use firefox to and can see the problem on mine.

Yep you could drop me an email with coding so I can look and see the differences and work on it, that would be very helpful. - email address is andy @ selfsufficientish.com

Cheers mate.

Andy