Waste

We've got into the habit of recycling just about everything, cardboard, metal, plastic, glass, paper - even plastic film and cat food pouches, which goes to Tesco on a Sunday morning. All vegetable food waste (including eggshells) is put into the compost bin and meat waste is put out for the foxes and assorted wildlife. In fact, the general waste that can't be recycled and goes into the grey wheelie bin has shrunk to less than half a bucketful a week, and that's for a family of four.

Conversely, not a scrap of recycling takes place at work, which I find hard to deal with, as I'm now 100% in the recycling frame of mind and it comes naturally without having to think about it. Commercial business waste, however, is very costly to recycle and it also requires a lot of space - space that simply isn't available if every available scrap of space is needed for your products and you operate on a slender margin. 

If I generate some waste at work myself - maybe a sandwich wrapper or whatever, I feel so guilty about putting it in the work bins that I will sometimes take it home to put in the domestic recycling. 

Sorting of commercial waste must be done off-site at the collection depot if the problem of commercial waste is to be solved.