You're definitely doing the right thing Daisychain - good on ya!
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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott  Don't you have a plastics disposal/recycling bin? If so then you wouldn't need to chop them at all?  |
Even if you have plastic recycling facilities it's still best to chop them. Whenever the recycling facilities get swamped with more than they can cope with, which seems to happen quite frequently where I live, a lot of our carefully seperated rubbish ends up in landfill anyway.
We were originally told that we couldn't recycle the plastic lids from milk and fruit juice containers but recent leaflets from the council have dropped that restriction so we're now chucking them in the plastics box. We've always put the aluminium lids from screw cap glass bottles in with the cans.
That's a very useful list Hedgie - I love the fact that some recycled plastics are used to make recycling bins!
Dave P.