How far would you go with recycling?

[AB Asks]

Everyone has been affected by the government's efforts to get people recycling more. Some people have taken it to extremes using methods that include; making compost, using food packaging for planting flowers, reusing old clothes to patch other items of clothing and cutting the tops of toothpaste tubes to get the most of it. Could you ever live like that? Can you see recycling becoming second nature in your household?

[jake-the-peg]

Making compost how extreme! who are these wierdos?

[Octavius]

Jake, I wouldn�t want to know who these outrageous extremists are.

If recycling becomes second nature, is that recycling nature?

[rabbitygirl]

Hey! where did you get all that info on me? I have done all that and more in the past. Its not recycling in the true sense - its called being poor.

[crossroads]

I have a compost heap, and i recycle things like household waste and garden waste.
Thats about it.

[whiffey]

I recycle everything I possibly can, to the extent that I no longer put out a black bag for refuse collection. I even found myself wondering if soil is biodegradable.

Another take on it though is: if I fill a black bag with garden soil every week and get it sent to landfill, will I help to make landfill greener ?

[crossroads]

You might make the landfill greener if you send some turf.

[jenstar]

AB Ed wouldn't know about these things. He/she/it never goes below stairs.

[boxingbig]

After recycling the label and washing out my baked bean tin
ready to be recycled ,a great cement mixer type lorry came thundering past filling everywhere with black smoke.
Am I alone in thinking that I am wasting my time until industry sorts itself out and we have cleaner greener transport and factories?

[pinkkitty]

No you're not alone! i do everything i can to recycle, but i feel its is all pointless unless the U.S. signs the Kyoto Agreement. What's the point in people in Britain walking/cycling/taking public transport when Americans have all these huge Gas-Guzzling cars?!