Next stop: Dundee!

After my bracing visit to the cold of the SNO!Zone in Braehead, it was off to Scotland’s fourth-largest city for me and my trunk.

I dropped in to Dundee for a visit to the Discovery Centre, which is home to the RRS Discovery, the ship which carried Shackleton and Scott on their Antarctic expedition. I had more even more sympathy for the hardships they faced on their South Pole adventure after my day spent freezing on the slopes of SNO!Zone!

Park Place Primary pupils Bethany Docherty, Poppy O’Neill, Caitlin Maclean and Oscar Holm-Huxley met me in front of the ship, along with Dundee City Council’s depute environment services convenor, Councillor Craig Melville.

Over the last four years, Dundee’s recycling rate has increased by almost 10%. The provision of neighbourhood recycling points, along with kerbside recycling facilities and three large recycling centres, has helped the city collect 421 tonnes of paper and glass in the last year – the equivalent weight of over 6 million copies of the Beano!

Of course, there’s still more we can all be doing to recycle more, and recycle more often. For more information on recycling near you, visit www.sort-it.org.uk

My travels around the country are still going on. You can follow me on Twitter or join my fan page on Facebook for clues as to where I’ll be next. If you get the answer right, you’ll join a prize draw to win a £100 food hamper courtesy of SPAR!