On the face of it, Brighton comes across as an environmentally friendly place. As well as having a Green-led council and being home to the constituency of Britain’s only Green MP, signs of waste consciousness are everywhere.
A coffee stand at the station promotes its “compostable” takeaway cups, and the steep streets nearby are dotted with big communal recycling bins. A pink and green-painted old milkfloat called Bianca, named after the former EastEnders character, jaggedly glides from house to house, processing carefully sorted recycling boxes on behalf of the cooperative Magpie Recycling.
