recycling – Beasley's Place

It’s all rubbish! — What do we do with all our rubbish? Yes, there is a lot of recycling that is carried out and perhaps we are on a track to solving out our wanton need to pollute.

However, what about the piles of rubbish left in old rubbish dumps. This recent article shows there is plenty still to do around the UK to deal with a vast legacy of buried rubbish that is slowly beginning to surface.

Windows 10 sales ending! — I suppose it’s a measure of time passing when your Operating System (OS) provider makes the announcement that they will no longer sell what you have been using for the past few years.

While Microsoft launched Windows 11 in October 2021 I am sure that many like me have yet to make that jump – partly due to my desktop PC’s hardware not being able to run Windows 11, so Microsoft says!

Having been a PC user since there were PC’s and they gave come a long way from those early days, much like the OS’s that make them do what they do.

Here are some interesting links to browse through.

With Christmas very much (and some might say ‘thank goodness’) over, I am sure like my house, the main room was covered in wrapping paper and empty plastic boxes/containers on the day.

We will also all have spent quite a bit of time diligently sorting through the ‘mess’ to make sure that we put the right items into the right recycling boxes ready for the ‘rescheduled’ holidays collections – how many of us still got the dates wrong!

But hang on a minute! Yes we are all encouraged to recycle our waste so that it does not end up making a bigger problem, but what about all the items that came ‘in‘ that mountain of paper and plastic in the first place?

This interesting article from the Guardian ‘The solution to the plastic waste crisis? It isn’t recycling’ caught my eye today. I was amazed to read that the latest Disney sponsored Arendelle Castle Village from Lego contains some 521 bits of plastic!

With many of the plastic based toys that now abound for our younger generation, one wonders if we need to approach recycling in a different way by simply buying less plastic in the first place, especially if much of the plastic around us is still not fully recyclable. I should point out that from my current understanding many of the latest Lego products are fully recyclable.

However; as we look around us, much plastic is still not fully recyclable and there; is the crux of the problem! Just how do we solve this dilemma, plastic is cheap and everywhere, we have got to think about not producing as much and really ramp up the use of other more sustainable & recyclable products.

Tag: recycling

It caught my eye… 3–2023

It’s all about the recycling; isn’t it?