Recycle Now!

It is staggering how difficult it can still be to recycle certain 'easily recyclable' items. Just this evening I was faced with an aluminium cake case. This is not a can... so surely I cannot put it with the cans? but it is the same material? And I know it can be recycled- I remember many years ago collecting it for one of the appeals on Blue Peter!
I turned to the Internet- surely that would tell me if I can put it in with the cans...
Next thing I knew I had found the wonderful www.recyclenow.co.uk This website gives country wide information on recycling centres and kerbside collections, as well has hosting an impressive amount of information about recycling. What is more, you can enter your postcode to find what your council will collect from your door, and where your nearest recycling points are. Brilliant.
Some while later I found I was still on the website, browsing information on novel ways in which big name company's are reducing their packaging- another must to help the environment.
As for my aluminium cake case... I can't put it in with the cans, and the nearest place I can recycle it is over 2km away!
We still have some way to go with recycling...