Recycle. The possibilies are endless.

Recycling is great. It makes rubbish into new, lovely things. It also prevents lots of waste from going into landfill sites - which release methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Recycling glass saves energy because making new glass requires a hell of a lot. Recyling plastic means we don't use up even more oil making new plastic. Recycling paper means rainforests, which absorb CO2, aren't destroyed. (Or destroyed so much, anyway.)

If you live in a house or flat your local council probably provides a doorstep collection for recyclable rubbish. If you don't have a Green Box or something similar ring up your local council and ask nicely. If your council is horrifically behind the times and hasn't introduced doorstep recycling yet then you can probably take your glass, plastic, tins, cans and paper to a bring bank nearby. Enjoy the walk. Or cycle.

If you are at university and your Halls or College don't have adequate recycling facilities, email your student representative to ask for bring banks to be installed. Your student representative may have to liase with the local council over this. Tell them it will look great on their CV. And that you will keep emailing them until they do something.

http://www.recyclenow.com is a cool website. Put your postcode into the box and it tells you what your local council collect and where your nearest bring banks are. It also tells you lots of Fun Recycling Facts! Like "every 8 months the UK produces enough waste to fill Lake Windermere".

Are you totally amazing and already recycle everything that your council say you can? Well done. Stand up and take a bow. You're very cool. Do you also recycle Tetrapaks (those annoying drinks cartons that juice and Innocent smoothies come in)? Councils don't collect Tetrapaks for recycling (yet). But you can send your empty ones to the magic recycling plant in Somerset and they recycle the cardboard! Hurray! Download the address labels at http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk. And get that satisfying warm glow of having done something good when you send your cardboard box of empty Tetrapaks off.