Recycling = Failure

[gentlegreen]

I think education at a younger age could be a key component. I've read research, and I can't remember the exact figures, stating the huge proportion of children who would cycle to school if the facilities were provided.

I've been cycling to work and back along the same route for 20 years now andhave noticed a bit of an increase in cycling - including by a few of the kind of youngsters who weren't to be seen doing it 20 years ago... but the increase is painfully gradual.

 

[free spirit]

it doesn't matter,a massive ammount of stuff put in green bins for recycling ends up in landfil sites anyway.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/02/earecycling102.xml

Paul Bettison, chairman of the Local Government Association Environment Board, said the 240,000 tons was only 1.6 per cent of the total recycling material collected.

this is virtually all material that's judged to be too contaminated with non recyclable stuff to be worth trying to re-sort it as well as far as I understand it, so the message from this should be to make sure you only put stuff out for recycling that your council actually can recycle, and always rinse bottles, tins etc before putting them for recycling otherwise they'll end up stinking out the recycling collection place and the entire load they're part of will have to be dumped.