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Apart from the usual:
* Vegetable peelings
* All my milk bottles that I have delivered
* Paper
I have also sorted out a whole bag of clothes for the Samaritans, a bag of clothes for a friend, plastic to take to the work’s recycling bins and a bag of garden rubbish.
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I can’t believe our recyling vans sometimes. This week I had a lot of paper to put out and had completely filled the bag we were left. So I filled another large bag and left it by the side of the blue bag.
Yoiu can imagine how astonished I was to find that they had taken the blue bag and put the other one with the normal rubbish. What is the point of trying to recycle when they don’t even take it?
At home it’s been the usual:
* Vegetable peelings
* All my milk bottles that I have delivered
* Paper
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Haven’t been so good this week, however, I am working for a company who is very environmentally friendly, so maybe I am doing more recycling at work this week.
They have boxes for waste paper, plastics, general, batteries, toner cartridges, Christmas cards and that’s just the areas I have noticed.
At home it’s been the usual:
* Vegetable peelings
* All my milk bottles that I have delivered
* Paper
I am going to start a campaign to raise the profile of milkmen. Think of all the plastic that coud be saved if more people used their milkmen.
It may be a few pence more to be delivered to your door, but isn’t it helping the environment? Apart from the fact you need never run out of milk, bread and all the other items they can deliver.
So if you know a milkman delivers near you, get your milk from him. I personally like sterilised milk and it tastes horrible in plastic cartons, so I have it delivered fresh in glass bottles, which can be recycled.
Maybe the government would think the idea good enough to pay a subsidy to milkmen, so the price can come down a bit.
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Well, being Christmas the rubbish has accumulated quite nicely. But the recycling hasn’t changed very much.
* Vegetable peelings as usual.
* 3 glass bottles.
* All my milk bottles that I have delivered
* Paper as usual
What gets me is that there is no council pick up of cardboard after the Christmas holidays. It’s an ideal opportunity to ‘up’ the recycling quotas but nothing is offered and I haven’t found an explanation for why not yet.
I put all my cardboard into it’s own bag just to see how much there was and I had almost 2 bin bags of various cardboard. Surely as a one off the councils could put on extra vehicles to take this away.
I know people can take it up to their nearest waste management sites, but for many the journey is not worth it, or they don’t have transport.
I have got a couple of suggestions on recycling which I am currently looking into and will post them in the next couple of weeks. And one is for the cardboard.
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On the recycling front this week:
* Vegetable peelings as usual.
* Two more bags of clothes given away.
* 1 glass bottle.
* Paper, junk mail and all other non-confidential paper.
* Reusing a cardboard set of drawers. Two drawers used for filing trays and the box that held the drawers, turned on it’s side and used as a magazine rack.
* Took an old bathroom suite, wood and metal up to the local waste disposal and duly put things in the correct containers.
Also found a really useful site on recycling called www.recycle-more.co.uk . On there they have a really good little diary which you can print off to organise your recycling. If you click here it will take you directly to the page.
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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.
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