With all of the talk of the environment over the last few months it has become the hottest issue in the world. After the Copenhagen summit, which many are calling a failure, it became even clearer that it would fall upon the shoulders of local authorities to produce real change. This is why the government of the United Kingdom has put pressure on local authorities to roll out more innovative schemes that will motivate their residents to recycle more and produce less waste. This has led to some of the better plans coming from small towns, where they are much easier to implement than on the national level. Environment chiefs for the Barnet Council have recently announced some additions to their recycling plan that should reduce waste by making recycling easier for their residents.
Barnet Council will now be taking materials that were formerly hard to recycle. Studies have shown that people are more likely to recycle if it is made easier, which is why schemes involving home bins were so popular when they were first introduced, as it saved the effort of hauling rubbish to a recycling center. Citizens of Barnet will now be able to recycle the containers that usually house things like wine, fruit juice, and milk. These cartons, which are made out of Tetra Pak, are difficult to recycle because they are made of various materials that need to be separated.
The Council said that prices for landfills were rising so rapidly that every type of rubbish must be looked at to find ways in which it can be reused or recycled.
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