Reasons To Love Your Wheelie Bins

Wheelie Bins may not be the prettiest things to look at but certainly rubbish bins have come a long way from the early days of the old metal dust bins big enough for just one bag. More recently rubbish bins have been renamed as recycle bins many of us will have various coloured bins for garden waste, metals, plastics and paper and so on, indeed there are so many types of recycle bins that they have now taken over the drive way, no longer do we have red sports cars on the drive but red wheelie bins, somewhat of a fashion statement at a fraction of the cost.

Many of you will be familiar with the green council wheelie bins, yes green is OK but hey when there’s a choice of colours why choose green?. The modern wheelie bin has become more interesting in design and you can even buy sticker kits to enhance your rubbish while its waiting to be collected. On a more serious note recycling to me is the most important aspect of the wheelie bin, now being able to reduce our carbon foot print and help save our planet for future generations to enjoy.

It amazes me why we never recycled sooner, there is a saying one mans muck is another mans fortune and no more could this be truer than with recycling. The recycling industry is now estimated to be worth over a billion pounds each year so that's a billion pounds worth of rubbish, who would have thought it. In fact Recycling has been a common practice for most of human history, with recorded advocates as far back as Plato in 400 BC.

During periods when resources were scarce, archaeological studies of ancient waste dumps show less household waste (such as ash, broken tools and pottery)—implying more waste was being recycled in the absence of new material. It is suggested that since the use of wheelie bins recycling in the home has increased from just 12% to over 75% in 10 years, a remarkable feet by any measure. So what are the advantages here yes its saving the planet but what’s the Environmental effects of recycling?

Written by Robert Green for http://mammothcleaningsupplies.co.uk visit http://rubbishwheeliebins.blogspot.com to read the full story