I’m all for recycling! I try to think about the packaging involved in what I buy. I do worry about what sort of a world I am sending my girls into in the future. And the amount of packaging and plastic involved with kids and their toys drives me mad! The other day the girls were given a little note book, some stickers and some pens that were packaged in such a large amount of plastic and cardboard, it was crazy! (Luckily the cardboard bit could go in recycling.) The thing is, it’s often the cheap, useful little things that will keep the kids happy for a good while that are so over packaged. We do try to be careful about the amount of plastic toys we acquire and we try to pass things on to be re-used, but even so, over the years, with the four of them, it is amazing the amount of plastic that builds up. When I think back to the toys I had as a child, I sometimes wonder if they realise how lucky they are (do you think saying that is something that automatically happens when you become a parent? Do you always think that the time when you were growing up as a kid was the best time to be growing up and also that kids today don’t realise how lucky they are??!!)
Our council has been undertaking recycling for a while now and they have just started taking a lot more plastic stuff, like yoghurt pots and strawberry and grape containers – great! However, we now find that we need a small extension just to store all the recycling, and cope with the number of red boxes, yellow bags and blue bags that we actually need to contain the recycling for the six of us. I also feel I could keep an extra person in part-time employment just to wash, sort, stack and load the recycling into the appropriate boxes! (ha – I wish!!) The problem this week is that we have been away and we missed the recycling week! So now we are getting towards four weeks of recycling building up – (bear in mind – four young children using milk, fruit, squash , yoghurts and other things) I fear we may drown in a sea of recycling before it gets collected next week! And I’m sure we’ll need to use most of the drive to fit everything on! Rob sometimes tells me off for leaving the recycling by the back door and not taking it out to the boxes in the porch (literally, it’s just the case of a few more steps!!) but in all honesty, sometimes I just can’t be bothered! I’m terrible for just dumping it and leaving it for Rob to sort out! (Well at least I wash it out for him!)
Our council has been undertaking recycling for a while now and they have just started taking a lot more plastic stuff, like yoghurt pots and strawberry and grape containers – great! However, we now find that we need a small extension just to store all the recycling, and cope with the number of red boxes, yellow bags and blue bags that we actually need to contain the recycling for the six of us. I also feel I could keep an extra person in part-time employment just to wash, sort, stack and load the recycling into the appropriate boxes! (ha – I wish!!) The problem this week is that we have been away and we missed the recycling week! So now we are getting towards four weeks of recycling building up – (bear in mind – four young children using milk, fruit, squash , yoghurts and other things) I fear we may drown in a sea of recycling before it gets collected next week! And I’m sure we’ll need to use most of the drive to fit everything on! Rob sometimes tells me off for leaving the recycling by the back door and not taking it out to the boxes in the porch (literally, it’s just the case of a few more steps!!) but in all honesty, sometimes I just can’t be bothered! I’m terrible for just dumping it and leaving it for Rob to sort out! (Well at least I wash it out for him!)
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