Now im one of these people who try and recycle, i say try, i've been known to anger people by repeatidly moaning at them for not recycling. It's an eay habit to get into and once you're there it helps the environment. Recycling is easy and most people are far to lazy to do so
i find it quite easy to fit recycling into my day-to-day-activities. once you get used to it, it is easy to do. the councils provide the bins and you might need some time to figure out and remember howto do it, but that is easy. people are lazy and always find excuse not to do it and shift the responsibility to other people or the council... same with plastic bags. i've been using cloth/linen bags for years, wash them and reuse them again. they are much more sturdy. hold so much more and i use them till they are done... if you go into a shop and buy for instance a lipstick, they try and give you a plastic bag for it, why??? often i see people in the queue ahead of me and they've got plenty of plastic bags and buy one thing and get it in a plastic bag, rather put it into their other bags... crazy...
I recycle my household and garden rubbish every week and when I have a clearout in my house I try and recycle as much as I possibly can. It really annoys me living in a village to find people fly tipping. It doesn't cost anything to get a permit to use your local recycling centre so PLEASE do make an efort and use yours.
i recycle everything i possibly can, paper, glass and cans go into the council recycling, food waste and cardboard into compost and the plastic bottles and tetrapaks go up to a special collection point. Initially i found this quite time consuming but now I have got into the swing of it I try to just do it as part of my weekly routine and it isn't a burden. My local farm shop have actually introduced cardboard meat trays with waxed paper so i can recycle all of the tray except the clingfilm top which is a huge improvement and i refuse carrier bags obsessively.
but it really angers me that after all the effort - the collectors just dump anything that isn't actually recyclable at the bottom of the drive. It's very hard to know which plastics can be re-used. I think the councils are behaving very badly at the moment - and using recycling as an excuse to provide a greatly reduced service. It must be very difficult for the elderly to sort out.
As often as I can, we use the kerb side recycling which collects different things each week, I use a compost bin and I collect water in a water butt for the garden so probably I recylce stuff every day
I guess among my friends and neighbours, I am known as the "grow-your-own-muesli-earth-shoes" lady because i have always recycled everything and religiously taken it down to the Council's waste tip each week. Now of course, its collected from the front garden. I have always made my own compost but its is only in the last 5 years that I have come into my own and am no longer being sniggered at by friends. I have a use for everything and feel a sense of "been there, done that, got the Tee-shirt, gave it to Oxfam ages ago!!" Im deluighted that recycling is at long last being taken seriously.
I recycle everything I can. Sometimes I do new things with the old one; I go at flea markets to give a longer life to the objets I need. To my opinion, if people don't do that, it's beaucoup it's a little difficult now. In France, we don't have a good system for recycling.
I recycle glass and metal, but I refuse to recycle paper on the grounds that it is a myth that recycling paper is better for the environment. Most new paper comes from renewable and specifically grown forests and the process of turning fresh pulp from these sources into virgin paper is actually less damaging to the environment that recycling, the chemicals needed to turn old paper into new are very toxic and noxious, and the fumes to straight into the atmosphere and rivers.
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