Recycle Week is well under way and it aims to get us thinking about whether we could all recycle more.
Perhaps we could take a lesson or two from these green-thinking people who made good use of everything from paper bags to Christmas cards in the past.
We’ve got archive photos from St Bega’s School, Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, St Helen’s Primary and the Manor West Centre.
1. Does this ring a bell?
Recycling mobile phones at the Manor West Centre in 2005. Photo: MH
2. Going hi-tech at St Joseph's
Saying hi to the recycling robot which visited St Joseph' School in Hartlepool in 2004. Photo: LH
3. Retro on the roundabout
The Education Centre's environment roundabout was in town in 2005. Remember this? Photo: LH
4. Shooting back to 2006
A recycling event with a football theme in the Middleton Grange Shopping Centre 16 years ago. Were you there Photo: LH