Recycling

August 1st, 2010

I had some free cinema tickets so thought that we would have a day in Nottingham then go see the new twilight movie in the evening (my wife is a big fan).  In the end we got on the tram and as it pulled away we realised we had completely forgotten to pick up the tickets.  Instead we had a shopping trip in Nottingham and had lunch at the slug and lettuce.  It is half price on all food every Monday so was quite cheap.

It has been quite a while since I had been to Nottingham so I was just happy wandering around the streets and going into any clothes shops my wife wanted to.  We were wandering around Hockley when we came across the Oxfam clothes shops.  It is one of those new style charity shops where everything is set out nicely and it all seems very modern.  My wife loved it and end up buying a coat for £10.

I like the idea of charity shops, but some of them really don’t appeal to my, they seem dark and dirty.  It is nice to think that you are giving some clothing a new lease of life when they would otherwise have ended up in a landfill.

It is getting easier and easier to recycle things as it is becoming more common to recycle different things.  I can now post my mobile phones off to a company that will recycle it for me, recycling is pick up from outside my house.  I can even get a brown bin for garden waste so it can be composted and then sold by the council.

One of the best things to recycle is books.  I don’t think anyone should ever throw a book away, they are to precious.  There is something special about a book, even if you have read it give it away to some one else.  There used to be a fantastic book shop in Nottingham that sold all the damaged books from the publishers for 1 or 2 pounds each.  Unfortunately it has closed down now but there is still one in Bingley that is worth a visit.

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