Incentivised recycling

Today I was thinking about recycling. In Japan and many other countries there are recycling programs set in place in order to encourage people to recycle PET bottles and cans. In most cases you get a small refund at a recycling depot. These container deposit schemes are proven to be effective and yet big companies like Coca-Cola oppose them, only to improve their own profits.

a refund on recycling makes a big difference

Some countries have more creative solutions, in Beijing you can recycle bottles to get credit towards your commute fare. But in my London home we don't even have a basic curb side recycling box, so I've resorted to bringing washed recyclables into my workplace to dispose of them, rather than throwing it in with the normal garbage. 

Recycling isn't difficult, and we can all do small things like putting our garbage in the right bins every day. If we don't this garbage ends up killing wild life and ruining landscapes.