Organizing Your Recycling
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Get your recycling organized and make life easy for yourself. You’re more likely to recycle if it’s convenient and that means in and out of your home. It helps if you have separate boxes or bags organized in your home so that you can simply drop your various items to be recycled into the right receptacle as you go along. It’s so much easier than sorting them all out later.
You can recycle cardboard, newspapers, magazines, paper, glass, plastic, cans, and clothes. Check out the recycling facilities in your area. Call your local council’s offices and ask to be put through to the appropriate person. Some local authorities provide big recycling bins at various points around their area and expect you to take your materials for recycling to those recycling points. Others provide special bins or boxes which you fill with the appropriate materials and these are then collected by the council on particular days.
If you have a garden, designate a bin for leftover food and peelings from fruit and vegetables and assign the task of adding the contents to your compost heap or composting bin.
You can recycle other household items by reusing them rather than just dumping them in the bin. For example, recycle your supermarket plastic bags by taking them with you the next time you go to the supermarket or using them as bin bags rather than buying new ones.
Cutting Down Your Car Use
Plan your driving schedule for the next week to cut down on the use of your car. If you have to drive your children to and from school, do your shopping on the way home or on the way to collect them in the afternoon. If you have to drive to and from work, do any other journeys that require the car on your way to or from work. Share journeys with other people you work with or take other people’s children with yours to school. Take your car to the nearest bus or train station and use public transport for part of the journey. Think carefully about whether you can walk or cycle instead.
Even if you leave the car in the garage for only the shortest journeys you’ll be doing your bit. Short journeys are often the most environmentally damaging as when the car engine is cold it uses more fuel and pumps out more damaging emissions.
Short journeys are often to the nearest shops and part of the reason for taking the car is because the items you need are too heavy to carry back. Check whether you have an old rucksack in the shed or on top of the wardrobe which you can carry your shopping home in. Tartan shopping trolleys with wheels may seem deeply unfashionable but they’re very useful - you may start a new trend! And you’ll be able to say ‘no thank you’ when you’re offered a carrier bag in the shop.
If you have to use the car think about how you drive. Rapid acceleration and breaking use up more fuel. A smooth driving style is less damaging for the environment. Don’t let the engine idle when you can turn it off.
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