What Can I Do?
These pages should start filling up with helpful sites and links to help you.
The first and most obvious action here is to find out where your local Amenity and Recycling Centres are and what they take. Remember, though, that making a special trip to the 'dump' can be counter productive in environmental terms.
I always ask myself if the stuff I take could be better recycled elsewhere. Could it be resold in a charity shop, for example. Of course, these days, many people think of selling items on E-bay. Whilst I think this is making a great contribution to recycling it does help us accumulate more 'stuff'!
If you are new to an area, the local library and town hall will have leaflets including any door to door collections.
If there is no collection facility for something, that's the time to start finding out why. Friends of the Earth are good at keeping us up to date with talks and debates and the MP responsible so it is worth siging up for their Emailing list and sending off letters. If we don't make any noise about it, the system will not know it should be changing :>)
Picture above:
An eye studies a self-contained ecosystem in which every organism feeds on another, or its waste products. All this sealed globe needs to sustain it is light, so that the plant can produce oxygen. This is identical to the Earth, a sealed ecosystem reliant on sunlight, the only difference being that we observe the Earth from within.
Young Photographer Award: 17-18 years
1st Prize "Keeping an eye on the world"
Maximillian Schneider
Source: www.visions-of-science.co.uk