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Friday on Recycle Now Week is Garden Waste. I am part of a trial scheme in Norfolk to have a large brown garden waste bin, and as I have a rather large garden it's generally full most weeks... Went to a good climate change conference at Carrow Road in Norwich today, and they were setting up the ground for a George Michael concert as you can see below. My wife is actually going to the concert... Will blog about the conference tomorrow....

Thursday is paper day in RECYCLENOW week.

Wednesday in Recycle week is GLASS day... Here are some interesting GLASS facts from the website: The largest glass furnaces produce more than 400 tonnes – that's more than one million bottles and jars - each day! [source: www.ollierecycles.com ] Glass can be recycled again and again without losing its clarity or purity [source: www.britglass.co.uk ] Milk bottles are reused an average of 13 times before recycling [source: Surrey County Council] The UK has more than 50,000 bottle banks [source: www.britglass.co.uk ] One bottle bank can hold up to 3,000 bottles before it needs to be emptied. [source: www.britglass.co.uk ] We use around 2.4 million tonnes of container glass in the UK every year. [source: www.defra.gov.uk ] In 2005 we recycled approximately 1.2 million tonnes of used glass (known as ‘cullet’). [source: www.britglass.co.uk ] Making glass bottles and jars from recycled ones saves energy. The energy saving from recycling one bottle will: - Power a 100 watt light bul...

Recycle Now Week is on all week, and this is the first of a series of daily posts about the event. Today: Monday is PLASTICS day. You can also play the SUPER RECYCLER online game, and watch the TV Ads.