Coronation Street goes green with on-set recycling bins
British soap operas have always aimed to reflect daily life as closely as possible (mid-90s Brookside excepting) and focus on the 'issues of the day'. But Corrie is the first soap I've seen to make a feature out of recycling bins, which are soon to make their debut on the Street.
Producers of the show joined up with Recycle Now to bring in the bins, which viewers will see in Corrie's cafe, Roy’s Rolls and in other prominent places: these will include a green-wheeled bin for individual households in the terraced backyards, an industrial recycling bin for cardboard and paper outside the ‘Underworld’ factory, and community recycling banks for food and drinks cans, clear glass bottles and jars and magazines and newspapers outside the Medical Centre. Let's hope this experiment proves educational for the nation's soap addicts!
[Via Corrie Blog]
