Serious recycling in Spain

This is Bilbao and the most awesome recycling bin I've ever seen: a recycling bin for domestic vegetable oil. Householders can deposit their used cooking oil here and it's used for biodiesel to power the public buses.




Brilliant, huh?

Recycling in Spain

I was really impressed with the recycling facilities in Spain. In most of the places I visited there were recycling bins on the street (the photo is from San Sebastian on the north coast). Even more impressive, along with the bins for glass, paper and plastic, there would also often be a bin for compost.

I talked to someone at the environmental centre in San Sebastian and he explained that they have these bins instead of a door-to-door collection system the way we do. People in the surrounding apartments bring their rubbish and recycling out to the bins on the street.