Recycling

 

A lot of our problem is perception.

Take glass bottles. You wash a bottle and it is as clean as a new pin, so why can’t it go back to the factory?

Bottles are cheap to produce and are manufactured where the materials are taken out of the ground and may well use less energy to manufacture, than would be employed to collect them all, sort them to the various products and get them back to the factory. In many cases, plastic bottles are used, because the general public doesn’t feel they should be recycled, whereas they feel glass can just be washed and reused.

Near here they built a new by-pass at Fordham. Instead of using aggregate, they used crushed glass.

Now that is creative recycling.

As an aside, when we had our children in the seventies, most of the time we used real nappies. Now if we wanted to be green, we should ban disposable nappies, except in very special cases.