Is Recycling Easy?
Recycling
There is so much talk in the media these days about climate change, global warming and reducing your carbon footprint. The pressure for recycling is growing daily, with everyone wanting to show that they’re doing their bit to help protect the environment.
If you’ve never recycled before, the idea of starting to do so may seem pretty daunting. From the outside it looks as though there is a lot of organising, sorting and planning that comes along with recycling, especially if you have multiple bins, but honestly, recycling is so much easier than you’ll ever expect. You’ll be amazed at how quickly you pick up new habits and how easily you fall into the habit of sorting out and separating your waste.
If you’re not sure where to start and are flummoxed by the idea of recycling, possibly the best step to take is to find out your councils policy on recycling. Councils all around the country have different ways in which they like recycling to be done – some having one recycling bin for everything that you can recycle and others preferring for you to split it down into glass, paper, metal and so on. This is a great starting point if you’re wanting to recycle, as knowing how much you need to separate your waste can help you dedicate bins or boxes in your kitchen for each type of item, meaning that you don’t have to stand outside on the drive sorting everything out in your slippers.
What goes in the bin?
So, when you know how much you need to separate your waste, the next step is to figure out what things can and cannot be recycled. Packaging these days is all marked with a recycling symbol (two black and white arrows in a circle), allowing you to easily identify what can and can’t be recycled. This makes recycling so simple and easy – you don’t have to be constantly checking lists online, you don’t have to just know, you just have to check the packaging – could it be much easier? You’ll soon find you start to pick up what you can and can’t recycle too if you tend to buy the same things, meaning that the process just gets quicker and quicker.
Despite recycling being very little effort at all, many people still wonder what the point in recycling actually is. For many, they can’t see the benefits of recycling because it isn’t happening around them – but this isn’t really a reason not to recycle. As mentioned earlier, recycling is easy and simple , so to not do it simply because you can’t see the effects immediately does seem pretty silly – it might not change the world in your lifetime, but if it helps to give the planet a future, then why not just spend that two minutes sorting out your rubbish.
Benefits
If the environmental implications of recycling don’t sway you, you’ll notice the difference in the amount of waste you have too. Often general waste bins fill up very quickly due to biweekly collections, and recycling really can help to thin out the amount of general rubbish that you have. This means you won’t have to make tip runs or worry about leaving bin bags next to your bins or even next to your wooden wheelie bin storage units because they are too full.
If none of this is enough to convince you, you can find out lots more information by doing a quick internet search about recycling, but to answer the question, is recycling easy? Yes, yes it is.
