YABU, Of course you have to start this message early, for it to be second nature, to our next generation to recycle, re use, cut down, conserve resources.
How this can ever been seen as a problem I cannot understand. Why would getting it right in the future, for the sake of our future ( theirs mainly) be seen as a negative or bad thing ?
TO make a positive change, on the scale that is needed to stop the damage we are all creating/causing you have to start right at the beginning. Children are the perfect starting point, receptive, not questioning of it, its will just be the way they live their lives, so long as we as parents support it adopt it and encourage the same behaviour.
MUch like the theories behind starting sex education in early primary school age children, or, giving children small amounts of alcohol with meals, in controlled enviroments. The research and statistics speak for them selves in the countries where these things are adopted or, in the case of alcohol, the way families just behave and have done for generations. It has been proved that all the things mentioned are far more respected. Teenage pregnancy rates in countries that start early Sex Ed' are far lower than here. RAtes of Alcoholic Liver Disease and coronary artery disease are far far lower in these countries.
Just to add, out council gave us green bins for anything but paper, which was to be put into the blue bag, and food waste into a small worktop bin, and a much larger green compost bin to empty that into. They found that it was more efficient to give 1 big bag, for you to put plastic, glass, card, paper and tin into. Too many people were not sorting it correctly, ad it was found to be faster for the collectors to sort it at the time of picking up, they literally chuck it from the white bag into the right metal crates on the van. Appears to work pretty efficiently.
I realise I've gone on a bit... just feel very passionate about it.