General Chat

Yes, OK, I take it back!
No rhyme or reason to it.

Names, yes that can happen although they do look in the bins before taking them to the bin wagon. If you say have put glass bottles in the organic bin, they will not take it and can fine you if you repeatedly put the wrong things in the wrong bins.

ArgyllGran, I can see your reasoning behind your thinking but there isn't any rhyme or reason, its baffling tbh.

It's a job in itself sorting it all for the various bins. In my kitchen, I have a blue canvas bag for the recyclable things another for carboard/thick paper, the food waste caddy and a bin for non recyclable things.

I think there are a lot of "lazy" people who cant be bothered to sort anything but that spoils it for the rest of us who are trying to make a difference.

I do wonder if here they will run out of land where the non recyclable stuff is dumped? What will happen then?

I don't have much food waste, cat food, lemon peel and bread mainly , which seems to go off more quickly, partly due to being short dated when delivered. Most other things go in the compost bin.

Rambling, Are you rambling rose? I’m back :-D so nice to see you here like the old days of GR.

As this thread is about recycling etc, thought i would post this question here rather than start another thread.

Can anyone think of a reason why the milk bottle tops have all changed to white? With different coloured tops, it was easy to identify the milk you needed however my Tesco delivery person said it was something to do with the recycling centre??

Florence in the hebrides

Yes, clear or white bottle tops don't 'contaminate' the recycling, as coloured tops are harder to recycle into food-grade plastic. Thus the tops don't have to be separated for recycling.

I’m getting used to looking at the label rather than the top. Annoying when we’ve all spent so many year identifying the milk by the bottle top : sivlver, red gold etc.

I expect it's just me, but I keep trying to pour the milk without noticing that the white lid is still on :-S

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Ah guess it makes sense re the colours but yes we have spent years looking the bottle tops so now will have to look at the label. Old habits die hard though!

Took them a loooong time to realise about contamination, cynical me thinks it is more likely to save money, shame they don't pass savings on to customers.