AIBU to collect plastic wrapping and tablet packaging for recycling?

[MsGreying]

Are you all collecting up the plastic wrapping and taking it in store to recycle.
You can do crisp packets and all sorts.
It does mean the grey bin has less stuff in it but means I have to actually go to the supermarket to get rid of it. We have home delivery for almost everything.

We're also saving up tablet packaging to take to either superdrug or boots. We now have a large bag of that. I don't go near either of those shops though.

Perhaps actually I'm just realising I don't go to shops anymore.

AIBU to not like taking recycling to shops.?

Me too. Gets collected every 3 weeks

I agree, I read that the first two weeks of the 'Iran war' created 5 million tons of CO 2.

I do, good for the environment and it saves so much space in the black bin which means I basically never have to go to the tip as anything I would have had to take can go in the black bin which is never more than half full.

No. I didn’t realise there were people taking stuff to the shops. It wouldn’t occur to me to do that. Everything goes in the bin or recycling

Same. I used to, but judging by what I could see already in the cage, it was all so contaminated /mixed that I don't believe it can be recycled. I concluded that certain supermarkets do it because it increases footfall.

I give it all to the Sainsbury’s delivery person when they drop off my shopping.

All our plastics go in the recycling bin for the council to collect except medicine blister packs which we drop off at Superdrug.

Yes you photograph them within the app and then they get verified, but it takes 1 or 2 minutes that's all! Hardly onerous. Plus you get points if you have an advantage card.

You don’t know how many tablets I take… have multiple chronic conditions

Hard plastics that go in the recycling bin are bottles, food trays, yoghurt pots etc.

Soft plastics that (in most areas) need to go to special drop off points (most large supermarkets have one) are thing like bread bags, frozen food bags, crisps packets, the inside bag from cereal boxes. And it also includes foil/plastic pouches from things like coffee or pet food.

Well even if you were finishing 5 packets a day it would only take a couple of minutes, but of course you can do what you like with them. You can still deposit at Boots without using the app or getting points, it's just a big box with a slot.

Cornwall Council ,we now recycle all plastic including tetra packs.Amazing how much there is before I took soft plastic to the shop.