Empty bins, full recyling - does anyone else have this problem??

Nick and I have been having this discussion lately at home. You see, we only throw out probably one small kitchen-bin full of rubbish once a week. However, we seem to end up with a huge cardboard-box full of recycling multiple times per fortnight.

I don’t know how any household could fill one of those things with rubbish per week!! We recycle all we can, compost our food scraps (and not a few teabags…) so as to do our bit for recycling and reducing landfill. Not to mention sweet, sweet compost!

Now, our normal wheelie bin is collected once a week, but our recycling bin is collected only once a fortnight. Does anyone else wish these two things were reversed?

And you thought empty beer bottles were good for nothing…

I found this post on GreenUpgrader, and just had to share. Another wonderful example of human ingenuity - an entire temple made from used beer bottles. Who would’ve thought that something so inane could be used to create something so beautiful? Just think, all of this would have otherwise ended up in landfill or, hopefully, recycled.

Hey Mark, maybe you and Rosalba should have a beer-bottle wall in your new house

Recycle Me!!

I am very proud of myself today, as I have finally done something I’ve been meaning to get around to for a while… I’ve set up recycling at my work!

I’m the manager where I work, and we use a lot of paper, and a while ago it started annoying me that we were just chucking it out when we’d finished with it. So, today I finally found the time - grabbed some old boxes that we’d had paper delivered in - and put a little message on the front of each:

I also put up a note for my staff, explaining what could go in there and what couldn’t.

The next step is to ring the council and see if they will give us a recycling bin. All houses have one, but our block of businesses doesn’t, for some strange reason. Otherwise, I’ll just bag it up and lug it all home to my own recycling bin.

It’s funny - I was feeling a bit down today, but after I did this I felt really good. I guess I am making that little bit of difference after all!