On 10/08/2013 10:42, Indigo wrote:

"Jake" wrote
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 13:57:00 +0100, "Indigo"
wrote:

Why there can't be ONE national system for goodness sake, beats me -
then we'd all know where we are.

It's called "the free market". [...]

Seems to be more like a free-for-all market, and a right royal
nationwide muddle into the bargain. grumble

But I wonder can those more intelligent than I interpret "Please
squash plastic bottles before retightening the lid so they take up
less space. Please remove all bottle tops before placing in the
recycling bag."

Er...


Put the right lid in,
The right lid out,
In-out, in-out
Shake it all about.
Stick it in the bag and then you turn around,
And that's what it's all about.

But I don't drink Hokey Cokey

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 13:57:00 +0100, "Indigo"
wrote:

My local council won't take plant pots of any colour. The only
plastic
they do allow in our recycling bin is bottles of various sorts, e.g.
milk, detergents, shampoo or soft drinks, but no veg or fruit
punnets,
yoghurt pots or margarine tubs or hard plastics.

Same here.

From my council's website -

In black bin:

Plastic packaging
Polystyrene
Plastic carrier bags
Yoghurt pots
Butter and margarine tubs
Plastic meat or vegetable trays and punnets
Tupperware or other storage containers

In brown bin:
Glass bottles
Glass jars
Food tins
Drinks cans
Empty aerosols
Plastic bottles
Aluminium foil and foil trays

It is despicable how little plastic they will take for recycling.

You're rather lucky you can put glass bottles in the brown bin. We have to take ours to the bottle bank ourselves.

News wrote:
On an almost related note - our council is generally very good on
recycling collections. However, the only thing that puzzles me is that
it refuses to take any black plastic for recycling. Even down to not
taking a whole bag of plastic because it has a single black piece
visible in it.

That's odd. Our council takes any 1 and 2 plastics, I've never
heard any restrictions on colour or anything.

Chris Hogg wrote:
Same here. Our council (actually, their recycling contractors) will
only take bottles, even though quite a lot of other things are made of
the same plastics and identified as such (codes 1 & 2). I can only
think that they find most people can't/don't read the codes or can't
be bothered or don't understand, so just lump all plastics together,
which gives the recycler problems in having to separate the different
types. Codes here, if anyone's interested:
http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/images...c_symbols.pdf?

For some reason, filled pasta (regardless of brand) never seems to have
the number marked on it. It will be either 1 or 5, but since I
can recle one of those and not the other, I have* to put it in the
landfill bin

"Victoria Conlan" wrote in message
...
News wrote:
On an almost related note - our council is generally very good on
recycling collections. However, the only thing that puzzles me is that
it refuses to take any black plastic for recycling. Even down to not
taking a whole bag of plastic because it has a single black piece
visible in it.

That's odd. Our council takes any 1 and 2 plastics, I've never
heard any restrictions on colour or anything.

I have a grey lidded bin for non recyclable rubbish, which includes glass.
I have a blue lidded bin for recycling which takes all plastic except film
and all paper.
I have a brown bin which takes all garden waste where the stem is less the 3
cm wide, and all kitchen waste including cooked and bones. Done on a
fortnight rotation, So on the recycling week we get two bin lorries.

--
Kathy

"Judith in England" wrote
Same here.

From my council's website -

In black bin:

Plastic packaging
Polystyrene Plastic carrier bags Yoghurt pots Butter and margarine
tubs Plastic meat or vegetable trays and punnets Tupperware or other
storage containers

In brown bin:
Glass bottles Glass jars Food tins Drinks cans Empty aerosols Plastic
bottles Aluminium foil and foil trays

It is despicable how little plastic they will take for recycling.

I agree.

The colour coding for bins seem to vary quite a bit. Must be confusing
if you move to another area.
Our black bin is for recycling stuff except glass, which we have to take
to a bottle bank. Brown is for green garden waste and we have a green
bin for the rest that has to go to landfill. Wrong way round if you ask
me but the local council started with the green one when we first had
wheelie bins for general waste, some time before they started taking
recycling, so I expect they couldn't change it without causing mass
panic and a rush of indignant letters to the paper.

--
Sue

On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 23:13:23 +0200, kay
wrote:

It is despicable how little plastic they will take for recycling.

You're rather lucky you can put glass bottles in the brown bin. We
have
to take ours to the bottle bank ourselves.

Some things they decide make no sense. There is a church nearby who
have their collection on Monday, and everyone else on the street has
it on Tuesday.