Recycle your car

When we arrived here we put all our bottles, tins and other re-usables aside to be recycled.  The piles grew for a few days as we searched for the recycling bins.  We couldn't find any, but as we were staying in a hotel we thought that it was just the fault of irresponsible hotel management who couldn't be bothered allowing the guests to recycle.  We were wrong.

There's very little recycling in Noumea.  One area (Mont Dore) started recycling last year.  In the rest of Noumea it's not possible to recycle your everyday waste - at least, not unless you drive out to Mont Dore.  It is changing though.  The first little steps have been taken.  Now cars, batteries, tyres and used oils can be recycled.  Hopefully more stuff will be added to this list during 2009.

It still feels weird to throw out glass.  I do keep some in case a wave of Nigella-ness crashes over me and sends me into a frenzy of pickling, but I end up throwing a lot out.  It's a pity because this little place is so fragile.  If anyone has any ideas for how to reduce and reuse send them my way!