[00:00.00]But this high quality comes at a cost in terms of the waste produced during the process. 
[00:06.32]Over a third of the waste paper that comes in can¡¯t be used in the recycled paper, leaving the question of what to do with it. 
[00:14.37]One firm, Papersave, currently sells this to farmers as a soil conditioner, 
[00:19.39]though this practice will soon be banned because of transport costs and the smell, 
[00:24.87]and the company is looking into the possibility of alternative uses.
[00:29.43]Plastic causes problems, because there are so many different types of plastic in use today, 
[00:34.76]and each one has to be dealt with differently. 
[00:37.34]Practice recycles all sorts of things, from bottles to car bumpers, 
[00:42.07]and one of its most successful activities is recycling plastic bottles to make containers which are used all over the country to collect waste.
[00:51.00]The Save-a-Cup scheme was set up by the vending and plastic industries to recycle 
[00:56.06]as many as possible of the three-and-a-half billion polystyrene cups used each year. 
[01:02.81]At the moment 500 million polycups are collected, processed and sold on to other businesses, such as Waterford, 
[01:11.00]which turns the cups into pencils, and Johnson&Jones, a Welsh-based firm, which has developed a wide variety of items, including business cards.
[01:21.95]Well, to sum up, there seems to be plenty of research going on into how to re-use materials, 
[01:28.07]but the biggest problem is getting people to think about recycling instead of throwing things away. 
[01:33.85]At least doing the research made us much more careful.