Recycling in France is a bit more sophisticated than it is here.
Recycling became part of our daily routine and the amount of rubbish that we actually 'threw away' was quite small.
What is very noticeable here is the amount of packaging that we seem to collect for which there is no recycling means of disposal, other than driving it down to our local recycling centre which sort of loses the point when you consider all the small individual journeys and petrol costs.
Added to that we have lots of packaging to dispose of from the move.
Anyway, I still haven't figured out what to do with all our different bits yet but, needless to say, the household font of all knowledge already has it all figured out.
'Are we recycling cardboard,' I whined the other day.
'No,' said the oracle, 'it goes out with the rubbish.' then she said the most erudite and philosophical thing I've heard in a long time.
'There's a lot of cardboard in life,' she said.
Could become an official muse our Jan.
Did you have the yellow plastic bags in your part of France, or something more elaborate? Up here the cardboard gets picked up with the recycling blue bin. I also like that garden refuse gets collected here (for 8 months of the year anyway). I always hated either burning it or taking it to the dechetterie there.
ReplyDeleteYes we had yellow bags which we could also use for cardboard. We're not yet sure about cardboard here. It's collected separately at the tip but an awful lot of rubbish still seems to go into landfill. Yes we have a garden refuse collection but in France we used to compost.
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