Recycling on the Tube

From the BBC website:

Tons of newspapers found on Tube

Free newspapers can be picked up at Tube stationsUp to 12 tons of newspapers a day are being abandoned by commuters on London Underground stations and trains, new figures show.
The statistics were revealed by Ken Livingstone following a question raised by the London Assembly Conservatives at Mayor's question time in January.
They have asked Transport for London to install more newspaper recycling points on the network to tackle the problem.
London Lite was launched in August last year and The London Paper a week later.
They followed the Metro freesheet which was introduced a number of years ago.

This is something that's been annoying me for a while - but it's more that a lot of the newspapers get dumped on the ground right near where the *pushers* are giving them out... I have to walk past a few places where they stand givign the papers out every morning, and more often than not there are 5-10 discarded ones blowing all around messing up the streets. Pretty sad when you think it's possible that paper (trees) may one day be a limited resource.

And the *pushers* drive me mental as well. Getting right in your face with the papers and not moving out of the way when the footpath is totally full of commuters. I guess it's a job for them, but still I don't like it! If someone wants the paper, they'll pick it up from a paper stand, same as everyone does with the Metro in the mornings.