As part of our Wrexham in bloom brief in association with wrexham council, we paid a visit to recycling plant on the industrial estate. Although it was not the grand tour we all expected, it was useful in finding out what the council is all about in terms of its recycling ethos with the community (mainly young people and schools).

In their resource room, they have tried to incorporate lots of interactive feature for the children to look at. (For example, a hole to put your hands in and feel what is recyclable). However, it was surrounded by text and facts, and no body was bothered to read it. In fact when you did read it, it was extremely confusing and didn’t seem relevant in certain points. The most interesting part was watching the trucks in the recycling area, not only because I am a complete and utter big kid, but also because it illustrated the process that the rubbish goes though from the ‘kerb side collections’.The brief however has changed slightly. Now, insted of it being the battery bee concept (which I actually think could work) it will be a list of 10 desirable which they would like – mostly relating to recycling as oppose to the walk. I for one, will ignore this, and carry on with the initial brief.