Recycling

[ailbhe]

Finally, recycling is coming to my life.

I mean, the refuse collection service will shortly include a recycling collection service, which means that I can stop feeling horrendously guilty every time I throw paper or cardboard in the landfill waste. I will still have to traipse to the recycling by the swimming pool for all the things that I already recycle, but the collection will take paper and cardboard and plastic, which is great. I bet our landfill waste reduces dramatically.

The only slight issue is that I know not where to store the recycling box while I'm waiting for the fortnightly collection. There's no space in our kitchen (it's a galley kitchen, and if anything obstructs the passageway, it's blocked) and the space under the stairs is full of junk, and there's definitely no space in the hall (though we put a bookcase and a shoe-storage thing there anyway).

Perhaps I can get it some kind of waterproof cover and leave it outside the front door with the ordinary wheelie bin.

Comments

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

We just leave ours outside, uncovered, since our Council requires papers and clothes to be put in plastic bags anyway.

[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad we have recycling collections here - after all the wedding gifts we had enough cardboard to set up a scheme of our own!

we just leave ours outside - they don't seem to care - after all, water doesn't harm plastic or glass and all the paper is going to be pulped anyway!