[CleoCy]

You may not be aware that much of the, supposedly being recycled, waste is shipped abroad, to countries such as India, China, etc, to be recycled there! Great for a carbon footprint, isn't it?

In North Wales, where we lived previously, our local civic amenity site had the option that we could buy items dumped by others. Which meant, of course, that if you needed a part for an old machine like an old washing machine, or you wanted cheap garden tools which needed minimal refurbishment, you could acquire these at very low cost. When I went to our local civic amenity site, in Mayo, and saw something that I wanted to recycle, I was told that I could not purchase anything on site, except the bags for dumping, and of course, the composters, as everything else was sold on to be recycled. What every happened to the Re-use bit of the slogan?