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Originally Posted by g jones
With everyone recycling prices for raw materials has fallen. The market for contaminated materials is a cost, you have to pay for it to be taken away even though it is being recycled. This is why it is believed the only solution is separation at source, ie household separation.
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The main problem is that householders are confused with what can be recycled what cant & the big bug bear was when HBC changed their mind thro the recycling programme ie, blue box is for glass only not tins as was allowed originally, also that the blue bags for plastic & tins now are subject in bad weather to be shrewn all over the streets - to no fault of the householders usually!! I was under impression that stuff were cleaned before doing what they need to do in order to recycle - unfortunately u cannot avoid some kind of small contamination even from sources to the best of ability. Recycling should be easy to do - thus complicating matters at the source would make recycling less appealing if they are critized for trying.