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So this is half sarcastic half real.
Nobody recycles at events. We just trow huge amounts of rubbish away. We go to events to save the world and what do we do with our real world. Buy loads of stuff to throw away and fill the overused dumps.
But I hear you cry it would be to hard to do, the u.k has poor recycling services compared to the rest of europe etc. You would suddenly have to train people to do it, when all they want to do is have fun and play! Would take to many organizers of the game to do.
Well possibly, but think of it this way.
Say if you just had a bottle, plastic bottles, can bank, which was emptied the same way the loos are at the gathering. We wouldn't have such build up in the skips. Could possibly be cheaper in the long run.
So, waiting for the backlash.
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Hyborian Tales recycles at events.  We had a box for cans & bottles at the last one.
I'd love to see the bigger events do the same, for all the reasons you cite. I don't believe it would be that hard. Most big re-enactment events these days have recycling of everything recyclable.
http://www.hyboriantales.com
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| Most scout sites, where most events happen at, have recycling schemes. Warren Oak splits cans and bottles and takes them to a recycling centre. If you get the organisers to talk to the site manager of any site I am sure they will set something up for you. The larger events, which generally don't take place on scout sites, have more of a problem but then they could probably arrange to have different bins set up and so on. The difficulty then comes in how they deal with the bins at the end of the event. And waypoint recycles. There isn't anything we can't so with a knackered old PC, laptop, bit of circuit board, old mobile phone, printer cartridge (paint them and call them 'engine parts', works a treat), old CDs (yes, there is a use for those AOL CDs you get forced on you without even trying), tatty old curtains and so on. And we helped to recycle a lot of the old portly pixie kit - some prehistoric (well, LRP prehistory anyway) James Morris (from before he set up 'Kin Cheap, when he was still practising) swords are now finding a home in our crew kit. There was also a point when we were practically totally solar powered as well - our IC lighting rig was linked to a leisure battery connected to a solar panel - but the panel died a death. Which was a shame as it was the best looking IC lighting for a post apocalyptic world you can get.
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| Personal responsibility... take your trash away with you and deal with it properly.
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I come home with bottles and cardboard that I can fit in my bag.
Its not something everybody will do want to put effort into, making things eaiser to do does tend to increase the amount of people who do it. Its why we have a government. Not everybody can build a road because they want to drive a car.
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I come home with bottles and cardboard that I can fit in my bag.
Its not something everybody will do want to put effort into, making things eaiser to do does tend to increase the amount of people who do it. Its why we have a government. Not everybody can build a road because they want to drive a car.Asking people to take home their rubbish is hardly on the same kettle of fish as building a road. That excuse is precisely the one people use for throwing rubbish all over the countryside and the London Stations... "but theres no bin.... it wasn't easy so I chucked in the ditch/on the escalator" Lazy people should be shot.... mind you then we'd have to recycle bodies on the field and Im not filling me car with corpses.... so.... fair point.
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Candleston has recently started a recycling scheme... now it's just a matter of persuading people to carry their cans, bottles, etc. over to the recycling bins rather than the normal ones.
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Money tends to be the best way to start the argument. Esp. if you pay for bags, pay for wieght, pay for extra collections etc.
Sometimes all you can do is stick to your guns and be seen to be doing it. Once it becomes a learned behavoir, people who in the past who wouldn't recycle, accpet it as part of life. Which reminds me, I have stuff to bring down myself.
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| Drum hill camp site recycle so go | | | |