World Environment Day seems so long ago.. so much has happened, so many new improvements in my home/work life that I may have been somewhat neglecting my online presence.
For one.. we now have three, not one or even two, but THREE bins in my house. Ok, ok so this may not be the most exciting thing to have happened in my life, but it proves just how much Environment Day had a long lasting effect. What’s the saying? Do something for 21 days and it becomes habit?
My boyfriend and I have have stretched ourselves this month. We have cleaned out the cupboard under the sink to make room for our small, pedal controlled plastic bin and have moved the old football boots and balls from the downstairs toilet to make space for a slightly large flap lid bin. Why you ask? Because we are finally taking our recycling to the next level.
One bin contains anything that bio-degrades. All banana skins, vegetable left overs, egg shells… oh and the hundreds of tea bags we use a day… go in to decompose economically and environmentally.
The second contains all dry recyclables… paper, cardboard, milk bottles (washed out), cans (washed and de-labled) and glass. Although this bin does need a little bit of sorting on bin day it still makes us recycle a LOT more than we used to.
The last bin that we’ve always had contains everything that can’t go to our county’s recyclo camps… plastics, waxed wrappers etc.
It may sound overly organised and somewhat geeky… but we have reduced our fortnightly rubbish to half a bag. I’m impressed!
If everyone made these simple changes think of what effect it would have on world…. Why not try it today? 21 days? Easy.
Georgie Campbell 