Doorstep recycling service is a luxury in Nottingham. Because of inadequate funding, the recycle truck only stops along a designated circuit. My house is just outside that lucky circle, although the paper truck gathers our blue bag full of old news and scrap sheets every fortnight (ahem, every other Thursday...).Instead, to minimize my carbon footprint, I leave tracks along a mile or so to carry plastics, cans, and glass to the bins. They are all located in the ASDA parking lot which makes it easy to carry a few bags along each trip to the grocery store. The process can be tedious and the garbage piles up until, as on this day, we have to haul a mass load of goods to the bins in one go.
Still, it makes you think twice about what you buy in the shop, about the packaging of your produce and how many old tuna cans you think you can carry next time around. Do you go for the boxed ceral or the bagged oats? Plastic or paper? Paper or plastic? Neither? Neither.
