Adhering to my promise made on Facebook (find me as flint mccray; I tried the oorb, but it wouldn't let me use it), I spent half an hour this morning wandering the streets nearby, filling a green sack with discarded recyclables. The bag was soon heavy with empty cans of, mostly, Stella, Strongbow, and coca-cola (mainly classic full sugar and cherry), though Red Bull and plastic water bottles were also popular. I soon collected nearly 10kg of eminently recyclable waste from just one street and one back alley. Next time I will need to venture further afield.
I've been banging on about recycling since the mid 70s, at which time I was thought of as somewhere between a well meaning (if misguided) idiot and a dangerous subversive. Now of course it has entered the mainstream. As for the other big issue of that era, nuclear power, that too has now become recognised as the potentially disastrous and inordinately expensive millstone round the neck of society that it is, though interestingly the pendulum seems to be gradually swinging the other way, now global warming has eneterd the collective consciousness. Even James Lovelock, he of Gaia fame, has now endorsed it as preferable to the burning of fossil fuels. He's wrong about that, of course. What is needed is not more "nucular" power stations, but more conservation of energy and less waste.
Quick summary: re-use is even better than recycling and: turn that light off if you're not using it!
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