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Originally Posted by garinda
Yesterday, for example, I had two plastic containers, one from a pack of bacon, and one which had strawberries in. I was unsure if I could put them in the blue plastic sack because it just states plastic bottles, so didn't, and they went in with the non-recycable rubbish. Is there a way we should be recycling plastic food containers, if so in what, and if not, why not?
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Barry Keeling, UK sales manager for Centriforce, a Liverpool company that recycles plastic bottles, said: “It’s a misunderstanding as to what can be recycled in this country. Lots of local authorities want us to recycle all the plastics – your yoghurt pot, your butter dish and sandwich wrapping – and we can’t use those.”
‘Recycled’ waste dumped in landfill-Life & Style-Women-The Way We Live-TimesOnline
Much more information is needed about what can and can't be recycled. It's pointless if government targets are supposedly being met, if after all the trouble of sorting out our rubbish, it goes straight to landfill sites because it's contaminated, and thus can't be recycled.
Why can't we have clearer instructions on the council's website? It would be easy to keep updated about how, and what can be recycled.
It's only through this article in the Sunday Times that I now know not to put margarine cartons etc. in the plastic sack.