Babies nowadays seem to need so many things that have to be carried around with you – from disposable nappies and sterilised wipes to sun cream and antiseptic hand-wash for the nappy changer, spare clothes and cream for nappy rash.

Oh, and baby-food pouches – oh-so convenient for feeding baby when you are travelling and times when baby is hungry and crying and dinner is still not quite ready yet.

Of course, once upon a time, convenience baby food used to come in glass jars, which were easily reused or recycled.

But what do you do with all the plastic pouches?

They can't go in your green bin because they are made from mixed materials, just like the foil-lined crisp packets, so they go in the grey bin

and end up in landfill. Hundreds and thousands of them.

Fear not – help is at hand! Paddocks Pre-school in Paddock Road, Wallingford (near the maternity ward entrance of the community hospital) is a collection hub.

They will gladly take any brand or supermarket own brand of these pouches, which they send off to a specialist recycling company.

In return, they receive a welcome fee of 2p per pouch per 5kg box sent for recycling, which goes towards running the preschool and supplying toys, books etc for the children.

You don't need to have a child at the school to bring your pouches but do, please, rinse them out first.

The pre-school manager Lou Greenaway and chairperson Alex Smith would be pleased to accept all the pouches you take to them.

You can email them at paddocks.preschool@btinternet.com to find out the best times to bring the pouches.

The more the merrier.

After much searching, I have discovered that there is a difficult-to-find link to a map on the website of one of the main branded manufacturers of the pouches.

You can find that map here: https://tinyurl.com/ella-recycle-map.

It has little green symbols, like a figure-of-eight lying on its side, showing the location of all the collection hubs in the UK.

You will see from the map that there are large parts of Scotland and Ireland with no collection hub.

So do tell family and friends wherever they are about this.

It is possible for an individual to be a collection hub provided they meet the criteria of being able to send a minimum weight of 5kg at a time of rinsed pouches.