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SUCCESSFUL RECYCLING NEEDS YOUR SEPARATION
RECYCLE
&
SEPARATE NOW
Recycling has been around forever. The use or repair of ordinary household items was commonplace but not considered or named in the manner that we tend to look at it today.
My mother used to darn my old woollen school socks, using a large mushroom-shaped implement that she pushed into them to sew into the shape. My Father used a piece of cast iron shaped like a shoe embedded in a log, it was a Cobbler’s ‘last’ and he would cut pieces of leather around it to repair my school shoes. That was how things were recycled in my youth. We all used to collect glass bottles and take them back to the shops for the deposit, usually threepence. As kids, we’d even climb into the rears of the pub yards and steal the empty bottles to hand back and make money to buy our sweeties.
Recycling as an industry has grown rapidly along with the differing advances in the technology of the materials and the designs of the many products used. This has become a global industry and is affected by all manner of influences.
The huge problem that we have today is how to stop plastic pollution and research is ongoing into how we both recycle and reduce the amount of so many different types of material. Companies are raising millions of dollars…
