Saturday 6th October and 2 weeks into the trial! The refuse vehicle arrives to collect the residual waste bin. It has 2 weeks waste in it and it is full. We would not have been able to cope with anything less than the 240 litre bin with our family size. What the trial has starkly brought home to us is the number of materials and packages that cannot be recycled at the present time. The bin was easy to manoeuvre even though it was full.
We have another week before the comingled recycling bin is collected and it is getting quite full. I expect we will completely fill it by the end of the week. We would probably have been regarded as an average family in terms of recycling efforts beforehand but the trial has most definitely focused our minds as to what can and can’t be recycled.
