Please keep recycling
Published: 2 April 2020
In his regular feature, Denis the Dustcart talks about why it's vital that we all keep recycling at home while Covid-19 restrictions are in place'
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Quite simply, if we don’t recycle enough material, there won’t be enough made to package essential products like food and medical supplies.
Take cardboard – or ‘fibre’, to use industry language.
The transportation of food and medical supplies relies on cardboard boxes.
Most shops are closed. They are no longer receiving deliveries in cardboard boxes, so are no longer putting out cardboard boxes for recycling. Much of the cardboard that we recycle in Exeter – and across the country – is from commercial sources.
Consequently, home-delivery is going through the roof – and so is the amount of cardboard we are bringing directly into our homes.
We must put that clean cardboard into our recycling bins.
If we don’t – if we put our cardboard in our rubbish bins – then the potential is there for the country to run short of cardboard and for disruptions to food and medical supply delivery.
Please keep recycling.