Our glass and can bin is collected every 4 weeks. It’s your average wheelie bin and it’s often rather full (cough).
A couple of months ago as the bin van came crawling round the corner, our neighbour, ‘Mrs I might smile at you today, I might not Cockney’ came out of her house to speak to the bin men. She reached the van just as our bin went up and over into the van. There was an almightly crash as the bottles and cans came out. She put her hand to her mouth, looked aghast and then looked at our house in horror.
And the reason I am telling you all this? Well, I’ve been tagged by Jo Beaufoix to join a merry band of parent bloggers in supporting Recycle week 22nd-27th June. OK, the post is a little late … but it’s never too late to recycle!
Because we are moving I am going to have to cheat. I have pledged, you see, to recycle glass, cans and paper; which as you can see above is something we already do in abundance.
And the rules are easy:
1. Visit www.recyclenow.com and sign up to one of the pledges to waste less.
2. Share details of your pledge on your own blog.
3. Chose five other bloggers, who will also be up for a bit of recycling fun.
4. Come back to this post at The Rubbish Diet and share your pledge with others, by placing a link to your pledge in the comments field.
5. Optional – as a thank you to all involved The Rubbish Diet will be publishing a British Mummy Bloggers’ Recycle Week carnival on Monday 29th June. To be included, simply submit your favourite post revealing the progress of your pledge by Saturday 27th June – email to karen[at]therubbishdiet[dot]co[dot]uk.”
So I am tagging;
Apologies if anyone has already done this … I am claiming Iammovingtomorrow-itis as my excuse.
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English Mum on June 25, 2009
Woah, woah, woah…hold it there, sister. I live in Ireland. We do not recycle. The whole recycling thang hasn’t reached the Emerald Isle at all. Recycling choices in Ireland are as follows:
1: Pretend you’re out for a nice country drive, pull up by the side of the road and chuck it out the window
2: Buy all your alcohol in the pub, thereby transferring the whole ‘what shall I do with this bottle?’ problem to the publican
3: If it’s small enough, chuck it in the bin, whereby it will be transferred by a private waste contractor to a large, once beautiful area of countryside where he… oh, let’s face it, buries it in a big hole.
4: If it’s something big, like a washing machine – chuck it in the bog.
That is all. Am I excused?
Womanatwork on June 25, 2009
I’ll give it a go but it’ll be next week. Sooo blooming busy at the moment!
Hope the move goes well my friend x
exmoorjane on June 25, 2009
Ah, um, darn, um…..am already a rabid recycler and have been for years but ahem, OK, yes, alright…..
Jo on June 25, 2009
I often wonder what some of our neighbors think about all the bottles (beer, wine, liquor) we recycle each week…
Jemma on June 26, 2009
I say (quite loudly) ‘right watch all daddys bottles go in the recycling lorry’ Haha. :s
WOB on June 26, 2009
Thanks for the tag …i think, i’m trying to eat all my leftovers for lunch but it’s not going too well and i only started on wednesday.
Almost Mrs Average on June 28, 2009
LOL… by the sound of your neighbour, I think you’ve made the right decision to move.
Thanks for joining in. I hope you the move goes well and that you end up with all the recycling facilities you could ever wish for.
nuttycow on June 28, 2009
You will have moved by now. How’s it all going?