Recycle your books

Give away some great ideas. The book that inspired you or captured your imagination, give it away.

They dreamt up a scheme in Amsterdam a few years ago, whereby white bicycles were provided free. And the idea was that - after you'd finished your ride - you'd leave the bike in the street for someone else to use for free.

And if that isn't re-cycling, we don't know what is.

But unfortunately this idea flopped, because they failed to take into account two things:

One, the fact that criminals exist.

And two, the fact that coloured paint exists.

But the idea was fantastically optimistic and deserved to succeed.

A better version of this is to ask people to recycle their books.

Do you really need to hang on to your old books? You're never going to read them again. Some of them, if you're honest you haven't even read once.

Start a mini library at work. Or pass them on to your local school or hospital.

Give them to a charity shops, or just leave them on a park bench. It's called book crossing and you can find out more below.

Take action
If you like the action, why not give it a go? We don't want you to spend hours trying to find out how to get started on each action, so we've got some ideas here.
www.oxfam.org.uk
www.bookcrossing.com
www.readersunited.com
www.roomtoread.org