Let's admit it, even the most environmentally-conscious, ecowarrior among us can sometimes slip up when it comes to recycling.

Whether it's a yoghurt pot that ends up in the waste bin or a potentially salvageable carpet that gets thrown into the skip, we can't all always be perfect.

But when every single person across England forgets to recycle just one item, our bins get heavier, our landfills fuller and our atmosphere more laden with CO2.

Gail Porter, former pin-up turned green goddess, supports Government agencies WRAP and Recycle Now's Recycle Week campaign believing that "recycling really does make a difference".

The TV presenter explains: "It might sound too easy to be true, but the data is there to prove it. If everyone did recycle just one more item, the nation's CO2 would reduce quite drastically."

Gail has a point. New research from WRAP and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRAS) has found that - while current UK recycling habits save 18 million tonnes of CO2 a year - there are common items that households tend to forget to recycle, such as aerosol cans, batteries and plastic bottles - which end up straight in the landfill.

"Think of the things you tend to forget to recycle," says Gail.

"Baby food containers, papers, magazines, shampoo bottles, for example. If everyone recycled just that one extra thing every week for one year, it would save 850,000 tonnes of CO2, which is the equivalent of half a million cars being taken off the road."

Gail makes it sound as though she also commonly forgets to recycle, but this Scottish eco-warrior prides herself on her recycling habits.

"People tell me they think it's quite difficult to recycle, but you just put things in a separate bin - that's all you have to do," she says, matter-of-factly.

"In our house, it's second nature.

We've got our waste bin, our recycling bin and our compost bin, where we put things like vegetable peelings.

"Sometimes my daughter Honey, who's five, can sometimes stuff things in the rubbish bin by mistake, but she'll pull it out and return it to the recycle box.

"She tries her hardest! She's learning!" adds Gail with a laugh.

While Gail might not have grown up being as eco-conscious as she is now, she says that learning to become green as a mum was easier than she expected.

"I grew up without recycling and I think it's more difficult for people of my generation to know what it's all about," she explains.

"We have to learn from the very beginning, whereas kids now learn about it at school, like saving electricity and using less water."

But there's so much information out there now to help people along the way, Gail says, that learning to go green has been both easy and fun.

"When I wanted to get started, I just phoned up my local council, asked them for a recycling bin and had it the next day," says Gail, who lives in London.

"It was so easy and there really is so much help available. People just have to think about whether recycling is beneficial to them and to the world."

Her enthusiasm for recycling has led the 37-year-old to start cycling - she now has a tandem that she shares with her daughter which is not only environmentally friendly but also makes the school run enjoyable. Now she's planning on buying an electric car.

"I'd love one, it saves lots of carbon emissions and also they just seem so much fun," she says excitedly.

She also thinks more people should focus on what is already being done for the positive rather than moan about how big companies aren't doing enough to curb climate change.

"I don't think you should knock anybody at all," she explains.

"If someone is putting energy into making their company just a bit greener, that can only be a good thing - even if it's only a tiny difference!"