Ah Fresh Air!

Today in between torrential downpours I took my bike out for a ride quickly to get some fresh air. I filled the basket up with the empty wine bottles of my alcoholic parents to take them to the bottle banks at the other end of the village. One of the few things our local council in Chichester doesn't collect in our recycling wheely bin is glass, so we have to take ours up the road to the bring bank. Mum & Dad usually wait until we have a car boot load (this doesn't take long considering the amount of beer consumed in the house) and then take the glass in the car. But I thought as I was going out for a quick ride anyway today, I'd take some bottles and jars with me so that we don't have to resort to using the car sooner rather than later. Loaded up my backpack with pasta bake jars in addition to the basket of empty wine & beer bottles and hurray! Reduced the stash of glass waiting to be recycled in our garden by about a sixth! So all I have to do is 5 more trips, thats one a day for a week, and I'll have a saved a whole car journey. Maybe that means I can have an extra bath this week with the carbon emissions that will have saved.