BRIGG VOLUNTEERS PLAY THEIR PART IN TIDYING UP THE TOWN

Volunteers met up in Brigg town centre to take part in the Keep Britain Tidy Brigg Litter Pick on Saturday (April 13).
The organisers, who provided equipment, asked people to help pick up discarded items over a wide area.
The weather was kind this time - unlike the 2018 tidy-up when conditions were grim and not at all spring like.
When Brigg Blog took this picture on Saturday morning we were thinking about the topic of recycling, having just bought some items from Brians DIY and had our purchases popped into a paper bag, rather than a plastic one.
Plastic bags are very much the norm these days; the paper variety much less so.
Paper degrades, of course, but should paper bags go in the burgundy bin or the blue box when it comes to household recycling collection by North Lincolnshire Council?
Back in the late 1960s and 1970s, a Saturday morning family chore involved visiting Bowen's bakery shop, on Grammar School Road, to collect loaves wrapped in thin white tissue paper.
Those many local households buy today are made in large factory-sized bakeries miles away and come wrapped in a thick, waxy covering which does not carry a symbol indicating the option to recycle.
Perhaps someone nationally could use their loaf to address this issue!