to recycle, or not to recycle: that is the question

i used to mock the uk for being very behind the times when it came to environmental issues. but i've recently come to discover, it's not all bad here, the government is sometimes trying to be green.

the point of all this is that i'm having an issue with my recycling. my borough has only recently implimented a recycling plan.

gasp horror! only recently?!

yes, only recently. it's not the first area in the london sprawl made to recycle, but it's also not the last. the problem is that my recycling hasn't been picked up for a month. my block is no longer in the computer system. no one knows how it happened, and so of course no one knows what to do. i started to get into a flap over this but then noticed something yesterday morning. the recycling truck came down my street and i watched as everyone else's recycling got picked up. there was no sorting, there was no seperating, there was no distinction between rubbish and recycling. a large, pink rubbish lorry collects the recycling -from the hot pink recycling bag- and crushes it all together. how can that work? surely it's easier to seperate first, instead of picking bits of broken glass out of the cardboard.

then it all started coming together in my head. recently watched bbc documentaries came flooding back. rumours in the news flashed into my head. apparently, a british journalist travelled to china, sorted through the dumped recycling and retrieved a bank stamement from someone in yorkshire.

but then i read that china is buying the recycling as fast as it can. i just don't know what to think.

trying to live a greener lifestyle because i'm an evil petrol consumer, is not the easy way to go.

oh a happier note, i got a new mobile and know exactly what i'm going to do with my old one! i'm going to dedicate a tree.