Saving the planet

Today is the first day of our new rubbish collection regime.

Every household is now the proud possessor of three wheelie bins. The newest – made of brown plastic – is for
• Plastic bottles, tubs and trays
• Food tins and drinks cans
• Empty aerosols
• Foil
• Newspapers and magazines, junk mail
• Yellow pages and telephone directories
• Greetings cards and wrapping paper
• Cardboard packaging and boxes
• Office paper, writing paper and envelopes
We still also have the green plastic unlidded boxes to use for glass. And we remain on a fortnightly cycle, plain old non-recyclable rubbish alternating with the salvageable stuff.

I do not know how many wagons have to come round for the recycling bins – two at least, one of which deals only with the food & garden waste (in the grey wheelie bin with the green lid).

I followed this one along the main road to the village around lunch time. I shall not need to see it again to know when it is there - it trails a very distinctive bouquet, which lingers. A distinct whiff was blowing in through the window of the bus as we followed a few minutes behind after the bin men had finished their stint in the village & driven off to the north