I recently went to a Green Office update meeting at work. As part of the session, they brought out a box of
discarded items, and we had to say whether or not it could be put in the recycling bin. I thought it was going to be rather boring because I thought I knew it all… well, guess what, I learnt something!
You know the thin plastic trays that packets of biscuits and the like come in to stop the bikkies from breaking? Well did you know they can (generally) be recycled?? Look closely to see if there is a recycle symbol imprinted on the plastic (you know the triangle with arrows). If it has one of those triangle thingys, it can be recycled!
Yay, less going into general rubbish! (But boo for all the stuff I’ve been putting in the rubbish instead of the recycling all this time…) Don’t forget though, as well as recycling, we need to be aiming to “close the loop” (I’m yet to figure out how we can affect this one).
More info on the little numbers inside the triangle on TreeHugger.
