Your time starts now (From Times Series)

Your time starts now

9:13am Thursday 22nd May 2008

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Specialist subjects on Mastermind are often focused on topics of intellectual depth or quirky yet fanatical insights into the obscure.

Generations of train spotters have prided themselves on their ability to quote the size of the combustion chamber thing of a 1950s locomotive which ran on the Great Western Railways between one year and another.

Others could recount the extensive back catalogue of a band most would claim to be unimportant, but to the fans they were the pinnacle of musical excellence.

However, many residents across the borough may now be able to step up to the black chair claiming their specialist subject is, “how to dispose of rubbish consistent with the policies laid out by Barnet Council.”

Highly researched knowledge seems the only way to get the correct answers when it comes to recycling at home.

The new contract, finally announced this week, to come in during the autumn, means plastic bottles and cardboard will require environmentally friendly disposal.

Don’t get me wrong, the service is a fantastic move forward in the recycling scheme in Barnet and will help households improve on the 30 per cent of waste that gets recycled.

Testament to its necessity, even in small part is, the huge bag of cardboard I have piled up behind my sofa and the black sack of bottles, all of which I refuse to chuck in landfill, and try to offer as a gift to my parent back in Essex who can make use of the recycling system there.

But with the new contract, comes a new recycling container, to go alongside the black box, garden waste containers, a variety of sacks and the good old wheely bin for everything else.

Learning the routine of the collection will also be a matter in need of great concentration and a demonstration of those skills will surely be enough to impress the late Mr Magnusson.

However, I am not to be deterred in my pursuit of a green routine; I’ve started so I will finish.

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