Recycling

 

We live in a country area and have wheelie bins. Fortnightly collections work well.

On the other hand, our council doesn’t get us to separate out things like bottles, which we take to a bottle bank in another council area. Other councils do.

What the UK needs is a similar system on a nationwide basis. This would cut the cost of recycling considerably, as it would mean that the companies that collect from councils could use standard systems.

Perhaps the only local variation would be weekly collections of food waste in densely populated areas, where storage is difficult.

You have to remember that in some countries like Denmark, they only collect food waste. Everything that is to be recycled has to be taken to recycling points. It does increase the amount of waste recycled though. It wouldn’t work here, as many of us just believe in dumping their rubbish anywhere.