While we won’t recycle our way out of the climate crisis, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. If something isn’t recycled, then in order of increasing rubbishness, it will get incinerated, end up in a landfill site, or escape into the wild and especially with plastic, end up floating in the ocean. Here are a couple of tips if you’ve already sorted your paper, glass, metal and plastic:
- take those tablet blister packs to Superdrug – they have a specialist recycler who can separate the foil from the plastic and take care of both
- take medicines and drugs to the pharmacy as well – don’t flush them: bad things will happen to the fish in the rivers
- if you have a choice, choose plastic bottles over tetrapaks, which need a lot more energy to recycle
- food waste contaminates the recycling – greasy pizza boxes must be burnt or buried
