We have made a push to recycle more over the last couple of months in our house. It has resulted in a full / overflowing green bin to be put out every month. So much so that we ran out of room and had to use the normal bin toward the end of the month. The black bin has generally only been half full. So all in all quite good going.

After being in the Lake District on honeymoon and having zero light pollution at night, coming back to an urban area involves quite an adjustment in that sense. Thinking about it I came up with the idea of turning all, or a number of, the street lights off after a certain time at night where they are barely utilised. This is quite similar to the French way of doing things where only a small number of lights are left on after a certain time at night. The idea being to cut down on light pollution and also reduce energy wastage and costs. Let me know what your thoughts are! If I get a good response, I may even write into the local council proposing a trial.