Government and local Councils have spent fortunes encouraging people to recycle more. TV campaigns and media advertisements encourage everyone to send less rubbish to landfill and more to special waste centres it can be sorted and possibly reused.

However all the targets are aimed at householders and domestic rubbish. Several businesses people in Ross, including the staff at The Ross Gazette have worried about the amount of rubbish they put out in the orange sacks for Herefordshire Council to collect, which then just go to landfill.

Luckily the Ross-based charity EnviroAbility has stepped up to the mark and the Can Do Crew offers a very popular service. They collect recyclable waste from shops and businesses and then arrange for everything to be processed and reused. Waste has to be sorted into different coloured bags which cost £1 each, blue is for paper, yellow for plastic, green for cans and so on. Cardboard can be folded into a box which has a sticker attached.

Dennis Humble of EnviroAbility told The Ross Gazette: "We think it is better supporting businesses to get rid of their waste rather than just pick up their rubbish. And we are always looking for a better use for it."

One of the businesses which regularly puts the coloured bags out for the Can Do Crew to collect is Pots and Pieces.

Owner David Bruce said: "Since Pots and Pieces started using the Can Do Crew for our commercial waste we have been delighted with the service they provide, safe in the knowledge that the recycling does not go to landfill. We are happy to use this local organisation who do so much to benefit Ross on Wye."

It is not just Ross which benefits from the Can Do Crew, other clients include Eastnor Castle.