There is so much focus on recycling lately that as a bit of an exercise I decided to look at what we do as a family.  I really dislike being told what we must and musn’t do, I would rather do something because I have an interest in it.

I didn’t think that we recycled very much, but I rather surprised myself when I had a look around.  We live in an area that has normal rubbish collected, garden rubbish and paper recycling bags, so anything else has to be done by us ie take items to the waste bins or local tip.

Week 1

We have milk delivered, so for starters it’s a really good method of recycling as, apart from the occasional broken bottle, all the bottles go back to the dairy for re-using. 

We only had 2 glass bottles in the house but I duly washed them out, took off the labels and put them in a box in the garage ready for taking to the local bottle bank.

I have magazines passed on to me. So after having read them, I cut out any useful articles and they go straight into the recycle bags provided by the council, along with any of the freebie newspapers we get, junk mail and all other non-confidential paper.

I have a composter up the garden, so the majority of vegetable peelings go in there.

I gave away two bags of children’s clothes.

I have also sorted out all old shoes that are in a bag ready to go to the recycle bins.

So, all in all, not a bad start.