The latest drive from the government is to reduce the amount of trash we put in landfill, from 57% per year to 25%. Now, it’s a good idea. We -should- be trying our hardest to recycle, that’s for certain.

We here in Louth, in East Lindsey, do recycle a lot. I know that my neighbours all put their bins out, pretty full. And, it’s not hard to get it done, it’s not hard to separate plastics and paper into another bin. So that’s fine. What’s not fine is seeing that some districts lately have been photographed stuffing their recycling rubbish with the normal rubbish, so this really isn’t a matter for us citizens to sort out, but the district councils that run our daily lives.

So what else can we do? Well I re-use my plastic bags as bin bags. I don’t buy pre-made food so that cuts down a lot on plastic packaging materials – that might be hard for some people who don’t cook from fresh ingredients.

Back to the title, is it possible for us to change how much we put in landfill? Maybe yes if we do proper recycling of plastics, and I mean -all- plastics. Recycle metal/white goods, computers, washing machines and so on. Metal can be recycled, so I think in the end, 25% of our rubbish going into a landfill site is doable.

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