Plastic, Cardboard and Bottled Beer.

I have just spent an hour at the local re-cycling facility following rather an elongated 21st birthday bash. The environmental fall-out has been huge....bbq smoke burning off the ozone layer, young people pickling their livers and laying down NHS overload problems in years to come and the older population hardening their arteries on a diet of sausages, burgers and ribs, with similar NHS implications.

The recycling challenge is geared to helping the environmental challenge surrounding green house gases and global warming. You would think the process would, therefore, be fairly standard, but not so.

Up on t'Wirral we can pop all sorts into our fortnightly collection bin, paper with cardboard, glass and plastic bottles, plastic containers with tin foil. Strangely though at the re-cycling centre you can't deposit cardboard anywhere, nor is there any place for plastics to be deposited.

Contrast that with the Hounslow collection policy in West London. A green box allows card, paper, glass, clothing, foil and batteries to be collected weekly, however, all plastic must be taken to the re-cycling centre.

So as a party location both places have their advantages, but as for disposing of the environmental fall-out Hounslow probably edges it.