Dear Doha Diary week 4
I'm just back from my weekly recycling trip to one of the only recycling facilities in Doha, or so it seems. The lack of recycling facilities here was one of the first things I noticed and it instantly made me very uncomfortable. In the UK we are so used to being able to recycle everything from paper to plastics, cardboard to cans, even compost our waste and I've been doing that since I can remember. Recycling is as natural as breathing and not to be able to do it is psychological suffocation...... impossible to tolerate. So, rather than throw my plastic bottles in the bin, I kept them until I could find a way of recycling them. And do they use alot of them? Oh my goodness......particularly at work - they buy bulk loads of little bottles of mineral water and the kitchen guys hand them around to the offices all day - they must get through hundreds every day. And there are no facilities for paper recycling. An American colleague of mine enquired into gettin