It's brilliant that the vast majority of us are doing our bit to help the environment, whether it's reusing A Bag For Life carrier at the local supermarket, scraping our fruit & vegetable peelings into the compost or turning off the tap whilst we brush our teeth, but did you know you can go several steps further when your kitchen is due for a makeover?
We try very hard to be as environmentally friendly as we can be, and will almost certainly go that extra mile if we need to. In fact I'd like to take this opportunity to give a quick shout out to the Bedford Recycling Centre in Barkers Lane, for having the greatest recycling centre I've ever had the privilege of frequenting - it's so clean, organised and efficient (they recycled 78% of refuse last year!), and left me hoping that a representative from the more local centres would visit them and take some notes! Anyway I digress...
Nearer to home in the Kettering and neighbouring areas, we have the most amazing service available on our doorstep, which IKD have had the pleasure of introducing to many customers on many occasions; they're called KITCHEN RECYCLERS and will visit you, upon your invitation, prior to having your kitchen refurbished and - if they believe they can re-use any of your old carcases, doors, worktops and possibly even appliances - they will buy them from you to install in i.e.: sheltered accommodation etc. How great is that?! This means the environment is considered by the old kitchen components being saved from the landfill site, and you're actually being paid to have them taken away! Why not give Robin Pipe a call on the number above and see how he may be able to help you out? Good luck!
Whilst we're on the subject of recycling, how easy do you find it separating all the different classes of refuse: paper, card, glass, tins and plastics? We have a couple of friends who use a single washing up bowl under the sink as an interim measure, and then regularly venture outside - because the bowl is not very big - to divide them into the relevant recycling containers. They do confess however that vegetable peelings are only recycled in the outside bin, if there's time and the weather's not atrocious, because their bowl under the sink would end up in a state. But there's an app for that, as they say. Have a look at some of the gadgets and gizmos available these days, to help you compartmentalise your recycling, indoors.
Even if your peely bin (as they call it at our daughter's school) gets in a wet and starchy state, it's not going to make your paper/newspapers soggy, and will be quicker and easier to empty and rinse out too. The bins pull out from under your sink and offer you a hygienic, practical and convenient solution to the small interim bowl under the sink. Click this link for more storage solutions http://bit.ly/storage-recycling 
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