Ho, ho! My recent posting on the need for more attractive recycling bins (like the French ones above) made it into the Guardian diary this week:
www.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,,1992724,00.html
So, for the benefit of the Guardian, here's a photo of those Swiss bins. If you look carefully you can just about see the "dashing", "passionate", "young" blogger of the Belsize Lib Dems rhapsodising over the joys confronting your average Swiss recycler!
It's true I believe PASSIONATELY that recycling bins can and should be attractive pieces of street furniture as they are in Switzerland and elsewhere on the continent. All too often we in the UK are fobbed off with bins that are ugly to look at, revolting to use and hard to feel proud of.
I also believe PASSIONATELY that most of the recycling done in this country has little environmental value. Councils have been forced to think in tonnage by the government rather than energy consumed. That's why we in Camden are about to embark on a comprehensive audit of all our recycling practices - to work out what makes sense in environmental terms, what might make sense as recycling markets become more sophisticated and local, and what will never make sense.
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