Greetings visitor,

I aim to update weekly. I will talk about global warming and anything to do with it. That includes recycling.

I am Fred Page, born in the era of Bob Dillon’s ‘With God on Our Side’ on ‘The Times They Are A-changin’ album”.

Before writing the book I looked at recycling, decided it creates too much waste, too much stuff is burned, it needs changing so I wrote Recycle Angel.

Thoughts for the week: How do you cancel the cancel culture?  What is more annoying? Keeping stuff you might never need or throwing away stuff you will?

Sometimes you just don’t know what you want but I know I don’t want my recycling to go to landfill or be burned when it could be made into something useful.

I’ve heard people in Britain and America say recycling doesn’t work. Lots of it is wasted, disposed of or burned. Burning creates greenhouse gasses, increases global warming and climate change. I looked at the recycling procedures. They need to be improved. I asked myself, can the procedures be improved by tinkering or should they be changed? I decided there is a need for change. In my story I describe two procedures. The generally used procedure and an alternative. Generally customers bundle all recycling together into one bin and it is sent to be sorted. In the alternative customers are trusted to treat recycling with care and sort it themselves and put it into appropriately sized patriotic red, white and blue bins.

I would be interested to know if you could be a patriotic recycler. Could you put cardboard, aluminium, glass etc into the right bin?

Recycle Angel

There are two main characters in the book. Granddad is an extravert who will do anything. Freddy, his grandson, is an introvert who likes to stay at home. Granddad takes him on an adventure and changes his life. They are both keen to help reduce climate change and Granddad, who is a business angel, sets Freddy up with a job that he enjoys. It helps reduce waste, helps reduce climate change and global warming.

The book is light reading. The problem is real but the way they deal with the situations they find themselves in is entertaining. 

Lots of stuff, plastics for example, is made from fossil fuels. It is well known that burning fossil fuels and stuff made from them create carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to Global warming and Climate Change. Recyclable materials are collected in the recycling bin, collected, sorted and baled for sale. Unfortunately, lots of it is wasted and burned. Granddad finds a way to reduce the problem.