Over the past year or so, I've become more and more conscious of the whole global warming and saving energy thing. My local council has quite a good recycling scheme offering the chance to recycle most plastics, tins, paper and garden waste. Up to now however I’ve done very little to take advantage of this fact, well that’s all going to change. I’ve decided that I’m going to really push myself as far as recycling is concerned.
One of the main problems I find is that when throwing away rubbish laziness sets in so everything ends up going into the same bin because I can’t be bothered to go outside and put it in the recycling boxes, so first step is to get some more containers that I can put next to the main bins in the house, that way I now just have to make sure I’m putting it into the correct bin.
Plastics and glass will need a little bit more attention, as they require the paper labels to be removed and to be washed out. This shouldn’t really be a hassle though as most plastic and glass usually gets thrown away in the kitchen anyway just a few steps away from the sink.
I think at first it may seem like a chore, however like most things when you do them enough it’ll probably just become part of my everyday life.
Once I’ve got things off the ground I’ll put up some more posts on how the recycling is going.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Recycling
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Open University
I'm currently coming to the end of my second Open University course in maths and I must say I'm very impressed. The quality of the material has so far been excellent and I feel it has really helped me improve my maths.
In some ways I think I would have done a lot better in my A level maths if it had been based on an Open University course as I feel it is laid out in a better fashion and it goes into more depth in a lot of the subjects.
I would highly recommend an OU course to anyone who is thinking about extending their education as I have found it enjoyable and interesting. The only word of warning I'd give is, if your like me and have trouble organising your time and sometimes can't get yourself motivated to do things then do think carefully before you take on the course. It does involve a lot of work and you have to motivate yourself to get though it all and get the assignments done, but I must admit it does make you feel good for doing it.
Only a few more weeks and I've got my exam, so better go and do some revision.
