Throughout National Recycling Week your Worcester News will be following the Clarke-Morris family to take a look in their bins and find out just how much they take recycling to heart, or whether it’s a load of rubbish Day two Packed lunches for the girls and for Jeremy and Sue to take to work.

Food packaging, newspapers, post and junk mail are all typical contenders for the Clarke-Morris’ family green bin. “We throw lots of this type of thing into the green bin every day,” explains Mrs Clarke-Morris.

“I remove all the packaging for the girls’ packed lunches before making their lunch boxes so I can ensure it all gets recycled.

“We keep the green and black bins close to the back door so we can use them easily, and have got the girls in the habit of helping us recycle as part of their little jobs, it helps to get them in the right way of thinking.”

Mrs Clarke-Morris admits the family would like to do even more recycling than they currently do.

“I think we are pretty good, but we are aware that we could recycle lots more.”

So what is holding them back? Sue’s husband Jeremy believes more knowledge would be helpful.

He said: “We are often unsure as to what to recycle. For example, some of the logos on packaging such as yoghurt pots and meat packaging indicate that it can be recycled, but we don’t think we are supposed to put those items in the green recycling bins. Maybe we need a clearer understanding of what can and can’t be recycled.

“When the bins first came into use, there were lots of leaflets guiding us, so more of that type of information would encourage us and give us the confidence in what we are sending where.

“Having the different bins has made us recycle more, and now we’d like to increase that again.”