Our Governments encourage us to recycle, <br />not everything but just the bits they choose. <br />Empty tin cans, bottles glass and plastic, paper, <br />and the list goes on and on. <br />However there is a downside, <br />one of which I cannot fathom. <br /> <br />You can recycle plastic bottles, <br />but not their plastic tops, <br />no particular reason given. <br />You can recycle paper, <br />but not paper envelopes, <br />reason given; the glue gums up the works! <br /> <br />Charities collect plastic bottle tops <br />and they can recycle them, <br />but you cannot put them in the recycle bin! <br />Plastic shopping bags cannot be recycled <br />so they tell us, <br />but some supermarkets can! <br /> <br />The question it poses is interesting, <br />how can some recycle others cannot? <br />Messages get mixed; <br />cardboard envelopes can be recycled <br />because the glue on them <br />doesn’t gum up the works! <br /> <br />Everything you think can be recycled cannot. <br />Then some bright spark says <br />help the environment, go GREEN. <br />Oh yes go green all right! <br />Go green with frustration <br />with what you can and cannot recycle. <br /> <br />1 April 2014<br /><br />David Harris<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/recycling-fun-poem-155/
