I liked to think I did my bit when it came to recycling, but I felt put to shame when I watched the BBC item today about the family from Gloucestershire, who manage to do so much recycling that they only produce one bag of rubbish for the entire year!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8483320.stm

I have managed to drastically reduce the waste that we put into our grey bin for landfill - usually 2 small carrier bags full a week - but I will now look again to see if there are further steps I can take to reduce this even more.

We are lucky to have the big recycling bins that with the increased items you can put in make things much easier than they were.

It would be nice to see the investment of a small amount of my time in improving recycling might one day result in the Council having to pay lower landfill charges, enabling them to use the money more usefully - maybe on speeding up the filling of potholes……