OneWorld UK recycling

When I came to London, I was really surprised by the knowledge everyone had about fair trade and organic food. You can find that kind of merchandises every where! In Sweden you can find fair trade products only in the biggest supermarkets, if you are lucky. The organic products also made a great impression on me, we have organic milk in Sweden and not much more, but here you can find everything in organic style! Mushrooms, meat, chocolate, juice, coffee – you name it!

But how about recycling? In my neighborhood we just got the opportunity to start to recycle. To recycle here is apparently to throw all types of wrappings in the same bin, and then let the people who works at the dump sort it out. Does anyone know that they really do sort them? Who controls that?

Actually, in this case I believe we have a much better system for recycling in Sweden:

- On all plastic bottles and metallic drinking cans we have pledges

- Other metallic’s goes in the ‘metallic bin’

- We recycle organic’s

- You have to throw glass in a ‘glass bin’ and even sort it after color

- Everybody I know recycle paper and cardboard

What is great about the system in Sweden is that every individual can actually do this without any extra effort. Apparently, companies can easily recycle in London (we have a great recycling system at OneWorld, but I do miss the organic recycling). Should not every individual be able to affect the climate change?