It's not so very long ago that disposability was an exciting byproduct of new materials and manufacturing processes. Your razor need never dull, your baby's bottom need never be sore, and you would never again have to carry a shopping bag with you. But now we know where that leads: to a floating continent of plastic bottles in the Pacific and a backbeat of concern about dwindling natural resources - consequences that we all desperately want solutions for.
So, I expected enthusiasm among the people who make recycled materials available to schools and early years settings. But I could not have guessed at the passion I would encounter in every single person I met.
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