20p return

[Margaret Pilkington]

I know about the pledge system........the kids from the local schools came round promoting it.
We have been recycling forever........glass bottles and cans we have always washed and we used to take them to Asda.......Paper, we used to save that and give it to the local school.......they used to get money for it.......alas no more. Not economical because of the council scheme.

[jpest1]

Originally Posted by Gayle Knight

I think it's a good idea.

Don't know if you know or not but HBC runs a pledging scheme with recycling. If you pledge your recycled stuff to a school it goes towards points that the school can spend (presumably on computer stuff or books). I don't quite know how it works, but I assume they weigh the stuff in the blue boxes and white bags to add up how much a school has earned. It encourages people to recycle.

But how do they know how much has been donated from each house? I have watched tha bin men recycle my blue bag and box, it just gets tipped into the wagon.

If I had joined the scheme, there is no way of telling