ENVIRONMENT
Recycling: How much do you do?
I
f you are lucky enough to
have municipal rubbish
removal in your area take
a drive around the streets on
rubbish collection day and
marvel at the amount of stuff
your neighbours throw away.
Outside many gates you will
find overflowing dustbins
surrounded by heaps of
oversized cardboard,
polystyrene and bags of
waste.
Reduce your landfill waste to a
fraction. Here!s how...
If, indeed, this is the case
outside your own gate you
could be doing a great deal
more to recycle, thereby
putting usable waste back
into the production stream
and reducing the amount of
matter than finishes up in
landfills.
For by adopting a few simple
It’s the little things that count ... Medicine boxes and toilet roll inners
accumulating over time for recycling
recycled.
The same goes for the boxes
in which cosmetics are
steps in the home you can
purchased.
reduce your actual household The point is that this is not a
rubbish volume to no more
quick-fix, and it’s sensible to
than half a black bag a week. have a box handy in which to
Here are some tips.
put the empty containers as
K Paper and cardboard –
they happen, so that in time
Are you on chronic medica-
you will accumulate a
tion? In which case you
meaningful quantity. Or,
probably collect a monthly
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supply of pills which, if they
come from a commercial
pharmacy (rather than from a
government hospital or clinic)
will be supplied in little
cardboard boxes. And within
the cardboard boxes will be a
paper package insert giving
details of the medication,
dosage, side effects etc. After
you have read the package
insert once with your first
round of medication,
subsequent inserts become
superfluous. And can be
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