Too busy to recycle?

Sooo recycling, not the most interesting topic to discuss, everyone tries to avoid it, but it is in fact a major issue that needs to be taken head on. After reading the article, i found that the targets set by the Northamptonshire authorities recycling strategy in 2002 are already being reached. i saw that at the beginning when the scheme was first introduced, the rate of recycling was very low but has dramatically increased as the community became more aware of different recycling methods.

Rates can vary for all sorts of reasons:

• depending on the time of year
• if there are celebrations
• communities being introduced to the strategies gradually, not all quite at the same time
• people having to adjust

• some people may not have wanted to help contribute, may have seen it as too much effort

.....though what is so bad about putting one piece of recyclable rubbish in a different bin? some people i'll never quite understand, surely no ones lifestyle is really THAT busy? Or are we really so busy nowadays that helping our planet isn't important anymore. Granted, some people may be...preoccupied, but we can all do our smnall bit to help out.

I know that i don't do half as much recycling that i should, and i really wish i did more, doen't mean that i'm not trying though.
What i think can be done to improve recycling rates:

• provide households with better storage facilities for recycling
• provide enough boxes
• collect the recyclable waste more often so that it doesn'tcollect in households, making them untidy and therefore making the owner unhappy/uncomfortable in their own home, and therefore not recycle as they want the waste gone as soon as possible.

Some may say being paid to recycle would help, and yes it would provoke people to do it, but it's not really helping if you're being paid to do it, plus, where wouild the money come from? The council does not have enough in their budget to pay everyone in the country to recycle...unless you want to raise taxes

Aplogies for such a late blog, and for it not being very long/any good, hopefully i'll improve and make them more interesting again soon.