Recycling - whats the difference?

callas

Each week I flatten my cat and dog food boxes along with any other cardboard and put this out for the recycle collection.

Today they missed me. When I rang to let the council know I was grilled in whether I was a business or if I ran a cattery etc?

Does it really matter? I thought the whole point of recycling was as long as it was cardboard it shouldn't matter if I am a cattery or run a business? No wonder fly tipping is on the up.

DCFC79

callas wrote: »

Each week I flatten my cat and dog food boxes along with any other cardboard and put this out for the recycle collection.

Today they missed me. When I rang to let the council know I was grilled in whether I was a business or if I ran a cattery etc?

Does it really matter? I thought the whole point of recycling was as long as it was cardboard it shouldn't matter if I am a cattery or run a business? No wonder fly tipping is on the up.

just take it to the supermarket when you do the shop or keep it for the next collection, did the just miss you out

Freddie_Snowbits

Good to see the olkd Bin Inspectorate out and about, Ours will not take black and white plastc bottles, even though they are fully recyclable. Not only that, but if you put pink paper in the box, they just leave the box!

Not only that our council bailed out the company three weeks back as well

DCFC79

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Good to see the olkd Bin Inspectorate out and about, Ours will not take black and white plastc bottles, even though they are fully recyclable. Not only that, but if you put pink paper in the box, they just leave the box!

Not only that our council bailed out the company three weeks back as well

are the black and white plastic bottles actually listed as being items you can put in the box, we cant put plastic bottles in our box even though they're recyclable,

chipmunk

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Ours will not take black and white plastc bottles, even though they are fully recyclable.

DCFC79 wrote: »

we cant put plastic bottles in our box even though they're recyclable,

It's got nothing to do with whether a material is recyclable, it's what your Council decides it's going to recycle. Ridiculous really considering how they keep bleating on about how we should recycle more to reduce the cost to the council for waste disposal. We've been recycling for about 6 years and according to the lovely, glossy booklets our council send out every year to every household (waste of paper/money?) they have saved vast amounts of money! But have some of those savings been passed on to the tax payer? Give you three guesses:rolleyes:

Our Council take (clean) paper, plastic bottles, i.e. milk cartons/pop bottles, cardboard and tin/aluminium cans.

uktim29

DCFC79 wrote: »

we cant put plastic bottles in our box even though they're recyclable,

We can't put plastic or cardboard in our!

nomoneytoday

Ours are fine, apart from not collecting bottles... any glass and the bag gets left. Seems silly to me as glass is one of the most recyclable item....

maninthestreet

Mi council takes any plastic marked with the 1, 2 or 3 recycling symbol.

savemoney

I know in my area they don't recycle businesses which to me is plain wrong it doesn't matter who the heck you are

moonrakerz

chipmunk wrote: »

It's got nothing to do with whether a material is recyclable, it's what your Council decides it's going to recycle.

It would also appear that much of what your local Council does "recycle" actually ends up in land-fill in India or China !

chipmunk

savemoney wrote: »

I know in my area they dont recycle businesses which to em is plain wrong it doesn't matter who the heck you are

Yes, our council don't offer recycling facilities to businesses either. If you want to recycle office paper etc. you have to pay a private contractor to do this for you. I just take our waste paper home and put it in my recycle bin.