Plugging into recycling success

IT might sound just like common sense, but if you want people to change their ways and do something different the best way to go about it is to make it easy for them.

Go back six years in Ireland and we all took our discarded fridges, cookers, TV sets, deep fat fryers and other electrical goods to the dump where they were thrown into a deep hole along with other waste and eventually covered over.

Now however, the whole idea is to divert such goods away from dumps (landfills) and our first instinct is to hand back them back to a retailer when we go to buy a replacement.