Burgess Hill Recycling Tip

I was at the tip yesterday, my second run there in a fortnight, and while I was waiting for my sister to return from her own escapades there, I was looking at the huge piles of *stuff* opposite the places where members of the public actually dump their recyclables. I must have been looking very pensive, because a staff member came up to me and asked - well, I wish I could remember the exact words he used, because it was beautifully put.

I replied something like, I was wondering when we got to be a society who had so much to throw away..... and he was lovely. He pointed out what each pile was - the stuff that would go to the new recycling plant, the earth and green materials that would be chipped or composted, and the waste that would go to the incinerator to provide electricity.

The pile that just goes to landfill was out of sight, but as he said, its getting smaller and smaller all the time.

I left much happier!