In pictures: What are you throwing away?


Paint for the future

Brian Croft is carefully unloading half used pots of paint into the recycling bin.

His paint is either recycled or can be collected and re-used by anyone who wants it. The old electrical appliances that he has brought with him today will either be revitalised or used for parts.

“Being able to recycle plastic through the kerbside scheme has dramatically reduced what I throw away,” he says. “Most of what goes in the bin now is food packaging.”

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