Line it, scrape it, lock it!

The Council has recently introduced green corn-starch liner bags for the brown recycling bins and I've been trying them out.

I know that some people are very uneasy about the idea of making something just to throw it away. The idea behind the bags is that they avoid the mess and smells that food waste recycling can create and therefore encourage less dedicated recyclers to get involved. In particular, we are currently giving them out free to people in areas with low recycling rates in order to convince people to start. Initial responses are very positive.

I picked up one free roll of green bags to see how they worked and I have to say that they are great! I have always used newspaper to wrap my food waste and I will be going back to doing this once I have finished my roll... though not being a newspaper reader, I have to scavenge for mine! However, for those people who are sceptical or who are worried about smells, the green bags are a perfect way of getting into food waste recycling.

The Council website has all the info you need about home recycling, including a list of shops that sell brown box liners. (While looking for these links, I also found a frankly rather bizarre recycling game on the Council website.)