I have to have a rant here. Not only is there the free Metro newspaper every morning, but now when you walk through London in the evening you're having London Lite and The London Paper thrust at you.
I've two issues here - it's more people getting in the way and more people day dreaming whilst reading when you're trying to get home; but more importantly for this site - what about the paper?
Yes, the papers may well be printed on recycled paper (or at least I hope they are as many newspapers have at least a high percentage of recycled pulp in them) but what about the disposal of these papers. I have a 20 minute walk through London each evening, and tonight I counted 1 paper recycling point, lots of newspapers shoved in bins and lots lying around at bus stops and on the ground. All of these extra papers (thousands of them) are just going into landfill. I wouldn't mind so much if the printers were providing recycling facilities, therefore completing the chain, but they aren't.
Does anyone know of any campaigns for this to take place?
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Interstingly, I've just found this page on the Metro website:
http://advertising.metro.co.uk/brand/recycle.htm
And their take on recycling is, well...
"The best way to recycle Metro is put it in a recycle bin – and you can find these more and more in city centres around the UK. Look out for our sponsored ones in Newcastle."
It's not the most 'on the ball' answer to the question of recycling free, unwanted newspapers. I'll keep an eye out for special bins in London but why not allow the same people who give out all of the newspapers to act as drop off points too? I'd happily grab a couple from the train and hand them over to the chirpy people who thrust them at you from the concourse to your office.
That would be great, actually, because they're on the streets and no doubt have return the left over papers already, so giving them 'used' ones is just feeding them back into the chain. In fact, the only reasons that it won't happen is because it puts the cost/effort of recycling squarely in the hands of companies like Metro.
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