While providing environmental management for an event recently we found it interesting that people don’t seem to know how to recycle waste using the correct receptacle. In a newspaper article it was stated that only 25 per cent of waste thrown in the yellow-lid recycling bin was actually recycle-friendly. How long have we been recycling for now? Records show that one particular company started recycling paper 120 years ago and what, after all that time we still can’t get it right. The article went onto discuss the ramifications for the future of recycling with the increase in the cost of water which has risen by 20 per cent recently. The correct method of recycling is to remove lids from … [Read more...]