crisp packets and sweet wrapper no longer to be recycled!

ljonski

I am a keen recycler and generally fill my recyclng (blue bin) to the top every fortnight whilst the general waste (black bin) remains largely empty.

i can't believe the latest rule from the council re rycling- which incidentaly has not even been notified to us residents officially yet.

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-s-blue-bin-collection-ban-crisp-packets/story-20595157-detail/story.html

Even as we speak i have 4 empty cheese and onion waiting to go in the recycling .

They are wattling on about contamination. But what about the plastic tray with my sausages from lidl? the litre carton of semi skimmed? the bread wrapper or the white bag that my doughnuts came in?

The empty tin of vegetable soup? Where will it end?
I am nearly 50 and resent spending some of the rest of my life washing out an empty can of beans , just for it to be put in the bin for recycling rubbish!

Vent over!

meer53

Take you recycling to a local tip where they have recycling facilities ?

chunkychocky

Goodness me! You could recycle crisp packets?!

Here we can recycle plastic bottles only in the white 'plastic bottle' bag as the only plastic - not even yoghurt pots or houmous pots etc so it wouldn't even occur to me that they may recycle crisp packets.

We can also recycle:
Cardboard in another bag.
Paper in yet another bag.
Garden waste in a green bin (which is a waste of space as we have our own compost bin)
Food waste in a food waste bin
Tins, glass bottles, foil, batteries, old clothes and shoes, car batteries and used engine oil - all in one little box.

The way we have to organise our recycling seems totally illogical to me as we have a multitude of silly bags and yet the vast majority still gets mixed together in a small box with no lid so it fills with water throughout the fortnight and then is horrid to carry to the end of the drive. It was stated very early on though that we must not use bin bags or carrier bags in the recycling containers and I'm surprised if other councils didn't make that clear too.

hollydays

meer53 wrote: »

Take you recycling to a local tip where they have recycling facilities ?

How convienient -not

ljonski

as well as being inconvenient the whole idea of recycling coming to you instead of the other way round is to cut out needless travel by me to the recycling dept and hence save the environment that way. As regards the comments on the story, i see no mention of any metal substance in my walkers cheese and onion packet, to make it unrecyclable

peter_the_piper

Down here they only recycle plastics 1&2 and PET, the rest go in waste. I agree a waste but thats it.They don't even do cardboard.

rach_k

Does your council recycle crisp packets? If not, why would you put them in the recycling bin? It's just something else they have to fish out and send to landfill, along with the nappies and food waste people 'accidentally' put in the recycling bins. Doesn't seem unreasonable to me at all. If you think they should recycle crisp packets, talk to them about that, don't just complain that they won't take your recycling if you put things they don't currently recycle in there.

Dizzy_Ditzy

my council doesnt recycle crisp packets or black plastic....but they'll take most other plastics

Andy_L

ljonski wrote: »

They are wattling on about contamination. But what about the plastic tray with my sausages from lidl? the litre carton of semi skimmed? the bread wrapper or the white bag that my doughnuts came in?

They don't mean contamination in the biological sense but in terms of contaminating the recycling with something (a type of plastic) that can't be recycled & thus has to be removed before recycling

ljonski

Well up to this point, i had no idea that crisp packets were never to be recycled. It would have been handy if the council had told us!

giraffe69

What is "wattling?"