To recycle lateral flow tests?

[Quackpot]

So, I've just noticed that the leaflet says recyclable.
The information inside says to throw away in general waste.
They are easily pulled apart and the test strip can be easily removed.
So my question is, aibu to put my used test cases (washed) in the recycling bin?
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If you google your council name + "recycle Lateral Flow" you should get a specific answer. For example, Suffolk does not accept them (suffolkrecycling.org.uk/uploads/Home_Disposal_of_LFT_kit.pdf) and nor does North London (www.nlwa.gov.uk/reducereuserecycle/recycle/whatcanwerecycle/lateral-flow-test)
Other councils may or may not, not going to check them all, but give yours a google and see what they say.

Ooohh thank you 🙂

Just because they are recyclable doesn't mean they are accepted for roadside collections - there are lots of things that are recyclable but not accepted - they can be recycled by specialists like terracycle or reworked (they do masks and lateral flows but only in special bins which you have to buy). So unless you know the plastic is acceptable by your council YABU.

I'm a collection point for terracycle and we call this wish-cycling - we wish it was all accepted for recycling so we add it thinking we're doing a good thing, but actually what we're doing is potentially contaminating a much bigger load and making it unusuable so while
We get the whole "I recycled" good feeling, we're actually doing more harm than if we just stick to what we know can be recycled. Does that make sense?

Ahh I see. Surely the government should have thought of this. Public bins just for the test plastic. Seems insane that perfectly recyclable materials are going to landfill. I hate not recycling things. Even take my bread bags back to the supermarket 😂

It's classed medical waste its needs to be disposed of with your household waste. If you put the used tests or bits of it in with the recycling you will contaminate all the other recycling and it won't be recycled it will all be sent to landfill. Of course you can recycle the paper and the boxes it comes in just not the actual tests or swabs they go in the bin.