The start of this week saw the second Global Recycling Day.
The campaign aims to encourage people to recycle and teaches them about the positive impacts it can have on the environment.
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We asked people in Castle Douglas how much recycling they do.
By chance, the folk we asked were all from outwith the area – and they were unimpressed by the lack of a multi-bin system in the Stewartry.
Joanne Smith from Scarborough said: “When we come up here we usually stay at Rockcliffe and you have a green bin and that’s it. If you want a garden bin you pay for that or take it to a tip, we just take it ourselves.
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“If you get it recycled it saves it going into the ground. It needs to be done, especially with the plastics.
“I’ve noticed people don’t seem to recycle as much here.”
Partner Nigel Wilson added: “We do it at home. We’ve got a green bin for everything and a blue bin for bottles, plastic and cardboard. If people realised how to put stuff in bins it would help, rather than putting it at the side of the road.
“We went to Glasgow last week and there was a lot of rubbish at the side of the road.”
Susannah Mackay from Perth was visiting her brother, along with daughter Catherine and grand daughter Ziya. Like Joanne and Nigel, she recycles at home and found it harder to do it in Dumfries and Galloway.
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She said: “We have three or four bins. Having one bin here confuses me. We do once a fortnight for general waste and once a fortnight for paper waste and have to pay for garden waste. We have loads of local skips.
“Because we have the baby, I never make it a fortnight without going to the skip. It’s not perfect but it’s better than what there is here.”
Catherine said: “I think people who have got babies should have nappy bins. We go through loads but they have to go to the skip.
