Weon

I was out putting some paper in our recycling box last night so that the Council could come and take it to be made into new paper. One of my neighbours was also out there chucking some stuff in their bin. As the bag fell it clanged loudly and was obviously filled with glass. Why would someone throw glass away when the Council will collect it from your doorstep to be recycled? Does it really take that much out of your day to rinse it out and instead of dropping it in your bin, dropping it in the recycling box? (They are right next to each other!)

Where we live we have Tesco 100 yards in one direction and Waitrose 100 yards in the other direction. Both have recycling centres and if the Council didn't collect our recycling I would still get angry at people in our street who didn't recycle (it's just laziness).

Take a look at the Recycle More website - they have loads of useful info including the location of you nearest recycling centre if you are not lucky enough to have a doorstep collection scheme.

Apparently, each week the average family in a developed country gets through 4 glass bottles or jars, 13 cans, 3 plastic bottles and 5 kilograms of paper all of which can be recycled. Recycling one plastic bottle saves enough energy to light a 60 watt lightbulb for 6 hours. When you consider that plastic bottles are made from oil which everyone is paranoid will run out soon, it makes sense to recycle.

The next time you put the rubbish out, think what you could have recycled. We need to stop being lazy and start thinking beyond our own little world to the bigger world around us.

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