tetrapaks are no longer accepted for recycling by my council

[EleanorReally]

are they accepted by yours?

No, as of this week

Yes, they go in with cardboard

I'm not sure if they are or not. The packaging doesn't have a recycling symbol number so I have no idea.

Nope never have been here, but I’ve noticed our council recycles a lot less than in other areas. There’s lots of things that can’t go in our recycling bins.

No they never have been here.

Too they have plastic openers or a lining of plastic?

No they never have been, the plastic coating makes them impossible to recycle.

The same as all laminated paper, most disposable paper cups are the same, plastic lining and impossible to recycle.

Not at the kerbside but the household waste recycling centres accept them. Might be worth checking if yours do. They're not impossible to recycle - just more difficult and there are less facilities that offer it.

We are always told to put everything like that into the recycling bin. So I do.

We are all supposed to be recycling more and more. I will find it very hard to believe them if they suddenly decide to tell us that something as widely used as tetrapaks cannot be recycled then I will find it very hard to believe.

I know that they are layers of different material, and that it takes time and energy to strip them down, but it can be done, and it should be.

No, unfortunately our council have never accepted them though there is a bin for them at our local tip. I just have a box for tetra packs/coffee cups in the utility room and taken them when i go with my glass recycling.

Ours go in the plastics, it's not been changed yet.

good idea, will check my actual recycling centre

Ours take them in the kirbside recycling.

Ours have never taken them.
I wonder which of the 'recycling' is shipped off to Indonesia etc. to be dumped out of our sight.

In our authority only plastic bottles and cans are separately recycled. We can no longer put in plastics like yogurt pots and plastic fruit containers. Instead, they all go in the grey bin, which goes to a massive state of the art sorting centre, where it is sorted by machines and incinerated, producing electricity. Only 3% is sent to landfill after the whole process.

Forgot to add cardboard and paper is recycled too.

No they don't but Tetrapaks are definitely recyclable.

I assumed they were so always chucked them in the recycling bin.
Tbh they change what you can and can't put in the bins I just chuck it in whichever and let them sort it out.
My bin is nothing but stickers saying "please put this is"
"Please don't put this in"
It gets confusing.

Our council state that we can put them in the recycling bin, whether that’ll change though I don’t know. There’re a few things that we used to be able to recycle that they’ve stopped allowing.

They used to be but now they are only accepted in special bins that also take coffee cups.

There are 4 such bins, 2 at 2 of the city recycling sites, which is disappointing because this is one of the largest cities in the UK, and there are about 15 recycling sites and 2 at large supermarkets, none of these locations are particularly convenient to me. I don't use many tetrapacks but I do keep old ones in my car until I am passing one of the sites to put them in the bins there. I also do the same for coffee cups, but again, this is only a handful a year.

Not really a great solution and most people don't want to be transporting their recycling around in their car for months on end until they are passing somewhere to take it.

You used to be able to post them to the Tetrapack people, don't know if this is still the case.

Just looked on our local council's website at the refuse and recycling pages.

It says nothing at all about tetrapaks, so I will assume it is fine to keep putting them in there.

There are so many different rules and they vary from area to area. It can be very confusing. I know more or less what my local council accepts as recycling but if I go away for a break to another part of the country then I find the system different again. I get caught out.

For instance, we can put cardboard, tins, plastic, paper and glass (including wine, spirit and beer bottles) all into our recycling bin. Other councils will not take drinks bottles and expect them to be taken to a bottle bank.

The lack of any universal system nationwide must be the cause of mistakes and contribute to a reduced recycling rate sometimes, surely.

Never been recyclable here.

The stuff may well not be recycled anyway, there was an article in the Telegraph the other day about it going to landfill.

Yes but like others only at recycling drop off points.