Next stop: Hawick!

For my next visit, I stopped off in the Scottish Borders at Mansfield Park, the home ground of Hawick Rugby Football Club.

Hawick Players Keith David, Gary Johnstone and Graham Hogg showed me round the grounds, and I also met Emily Graham, Rachel Goldie and David Chipakupaku from Drumlanrig Primary School and Scottish Borders Council recycling officer Dominic Hodgkiss.

Over the past year, people in the Borders have recycled nearly 3,000 tonnes of glass and over 1,000 tonnes of plastic - enough to fill five-and-a-half Olympic-sized swimming pools!

Recycling all this waste saves over 2,000 tonnes of carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere each year, which is the equivalent of taking more than 700 cars off the road.

That’s a great effort – but there’s still more that can be done in the Borders and across the country to recycle more.

I’m still travelling across the country to spread the word about the importance of recycling more and recycling more often – you can try to guess where I’ll be next by joining my Facebook fan page or following me on Twitter

For more information on where you can recycle close to home, visit www.sort-it.org.uk