the 2nd of two videos filmed at Lewes Recycling Centre for our citizenship GCSE. Uploaded to youtube as a means of getting it into school 
One guy runs the recycling truck for cans, bottles, and paper in our part of the city. He doesn’t often need to dump the bucket at our stop, so it took several tries to get this one!
Video Rating: 0 / 5
How easy it is when you go to the store to let that person who happens to be packing the groceries stuff them all into dispensable, plastic bags. These are bought by the countless thousands by outlets, and they are used all over the place. There has been some talk regarding prohibiting these kinds of bags, but so far nothing been established to curb this omnipresent usage from a mom-and-pop shop straight to the biggest retailers. Outlets are keen on them because they tend to be economical not to mention that they’re simple to dispense. Shoppers favor them because they’re easy to use and easy to discard.
Although they are designed to be disposed of, you can do your part for Mother Earth by recycling them instead. Don’t think that you can’t recycle them. It is possible to include them with the plastic that you recycle on a normal basis, or they can go in the recycling bins which are found in the bigger supermarkets for that very reason. Some people also reuse them for litter, cat litter, yard debris, and the rest, meaning that the bags get used again. Using them in this way, however, the ultimately get thrown in the garbage – and that still doesn’t help the environment much.
It’s much better to in fact recycle these bags properly, so that they can stay out of landfills. Plastic is very slow to biodegrade, not to mention the fact that as countless bags end up in the landfills the more the planet is polluted. Even if you’re not that interested in starting up a recycling regiment for the plastic, glass, and paper which you use at home, you can still monitor the bags which you take away while shopping. After unpacking your bags at home, get them together and pile the lost into a big bag. Put them back in the car, and leave them behind when you subsequently shop.
That way it won’t be bothersome for you, you don’t need to trek to a specialized place for them to be recycled, not to mention the fact that your house will not be drowning in plastic bags. So many people choose not to recycle because it inconveniences them, however making sure that plastic bags get recycled doesn’t have to be difficult.
Another excellent option for reducing plastic bag excess can be from using green shopping bags otherwise known as eco shopping bags. These convenient items can go a long way. You can make it very simple plus easy to handle, and you can get your family enlisted to make you feel like a team handling the responsibility of making sure plastic bags fall into the capable hands of those who will be able to recycle them.
