Recycling Tips

Waste dumped on tips produces methane, 23 times more climate-changing than the emission of carbon dioxide from using fossil fuels. The Polluter Pays principle is being enforced. The EU is imposing targets, with fines on nations which fail to reduce waste going to landfill.

Every householder can help keep council tax bills down by sorting rubbish for recycling. Cherwell DC has reduced waste going to landfill by 40% by alternating weekly its collection for recycling and that for other rubbish.

Wormbins recycle kitchen waste, producing liquid fertiliser and compost. Garden rubbish can be composted. Shredding it first speeds up the process. A simple tool like a harpoon keeps the pile aerated without the fag of turning its contents. Aeration makes sure that the heap does not give off methane. A ‘duvet’ of woven black plastic filled with fibreglass builds up and conserves heat in the bin, cooks any seeds, stimulates worms, accelerating the whole process.

Those Christians who can do so will go to all this trouble because we want our grandchildren to have life and to have it in all its fullness, as Jesus does.
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Canon Christopher Hall
This piece is based on a seminar on Air Transport at St John's Waterloo addressed by Professor Paul Ekins of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution