to get a bit grumpy about recycling?

[Skyrg]

Sorry if it's been done before, but I'm driven nuts by this crazy eco stuff. We must all recycle or the planet is doomed! And then they don't really bother...

I am fine with recycling. I want to do it, I dislike the thought of all our stuff piling up in landfills.
However, I despise the council's mad lists on EXACTLY what you can or cannot recycle.

Examples:
They will recycle paper, but not cardboard.
They MAY recycle plastic bottles in your area (how do we check??) but you must remove the tops (fine, doesn't take much on my part but why can't they recycle those too?)
They do not recycle drinks cartons (but the cartons say you can!)
They do not recycle plastics other than bottles. What? Why? Fair enough if it's a different type of plastic, but they seem to only care about shape!

Now I have to recycle with a reference book handy, study the bottles/jars/containers carefully, and then still end up getting it wrong.

It just seems totally half arsed. Surely it's better to recycle everything.

Also, could they make ANY MORE NOISE when they THROW the glass into their trucks at 5 in the morning? To add insult to bloody injury, they won't take broken glass, yet clearly break your perfect, carefully cleaned jars when they fling them into the trucks.

Rant over

Also, boyfriend just found one of my clean socks in the recycling. We are both puzzled.

We're simples... black bin, green bin, nice sand-weighted so it doesn't blow down the street after you've had it emptied glass bag (which got nicked - grrrr). Black bin one week, green bin the next - wait till one of your neighbours cracks and checks the calendar to see which week it is.

What annoys me, and what I'm suprised there isn't a wider sale of because the market MUST be there now, is the lack of single split-bins for none recyclable/recyclable waste. There must be a market for something which is an all-in-one dealie, rather than the myriad of boxes and bags in the kitchen until we take the bins out (heck our can recycling is in a carrier hanging off the back door and it looks a flipping mess. There are a few solutions out there - but not a lot. Just want a bin wtih a section for rubbish rubbish, and a section for the stuff our local council lets us shove in the green bin.