At long last our borough has introduced Tetra Pak recycling, an important addition to the recycling schemes, and considering that 20 billion of the 55 billion cartons produced were recycled on a global basis as far back as in 2005, it's not before time.
Apparently, Tetra Paks - those cartons that drinks often come in - are quite easy to recycle even though the paper, aluminium and polythene need to be stripped away from one another. Ours can’t go into the kerbside recycling bins but a number of supermarkets have council recycling units in their car parks so those who shop there anyway can easily take them along and pop them in.
To find out where you can recycle your Tetra Paks, take a look at the recycling location map.
According to Tetra Pak the company, their products have a far lower carbon impact than plastic cartons so while I’ve been choosing plastic over cartons until now, simply because I had no way of recycling them, my choice will soon be changing?
Why soon and not straight away? Because I still need to get that darned bin cupboard de-cluttered (the bin doesn’t actually ‘live’ in there) and some shelves put up so that I can store my recycling. Once that’s done, I shall definitely be recycling Tetra Paks. Unfortunately, until then, I just don’t have anywhere to store the papers, bottles and now, plastic lined cartons, that need to be taken ‘elsewhere’ to be recycled. I really must get my skates on.
Sharon J
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6 comments:
I just took a peek at the map and it turns out theres one at our tesco. I never knew that so thanks for the eye opener sharon.
Morrison's have carton recycling bins
Just goes to show how rubbish (no pun intended!) our council is - our nearest recycling station is miles away from me. I should really start petitioning for them to get their act together! Thanks for the tip (oh god, am unintentionally full of them today) though, it's really useful info and I'll pass it on to people I know.
J x
@ Pat. Having had a look at the map around some areas where I have friends, it seems most are sited by the big supermarkets. At least that means you don't have to make a special trip just to get rid of cartons.
@ Richard. Yes, I know ours does. It's on the map ;)
@ Jade. LOL. Just as long as it's only puns you're full of :) Seriously, maybe you should petition your council. I think you can contact Tetra Pak too to ask them to work with your council. I'm sure there was something about that on their site.
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