Someone's Fibbing Here: London Mayor Ken Livingstone is calling on Londoners to starve their rubbish bins and feed their recycling bags and boxes as part of a drive to triple the amount of trash being recycled in the British capital, Recycling & Waste World reports.

"The gulf between what Londoners say they are recycling and what is required is still huge," Livingstone said. "In London we are recycling just over 20% of our rubbish, yet when we asked Londoners if they are recycling, 93% of people said they are recycling paper and 90% say they are recycling glass all the time."


I'd say that's a gulf, all right. I guess polls asking Brits how much they recycle are as reliable as polls asking them how often they get bladdered or how often they engage in slap-and-tickle.


Technology by the Pound: I found this phrasing odd. In a press release about a nationwide electronics recycling service being launched by Office Depot, the retailer reports that the program, which it tested in 100 stores last year, "has already resulted in the recycling of more than 108,000 pounds of technology."


Now that would be an impressive technological feat -- creating a machine that could weigh abstract nouns.


Further down in the release, an Office Depot official says the company is committed to bringing value and innovation to its customers. I wonder if they measure those by the pound as well.


Pete Fehrenbach is managing editor of Waste News. Past installments of this column are collected in the Inbox archive.

 

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