Bath and NE Somerset want me to do more recycling, so why don;t they take plastic yoghurt pots in kerbside collections????

[intergalacticwerewolf]

When they take plastic bottles, which I presume are made from the same sort of materials.

We try really hard to recycle everything we can, yet why is it week after fecking week, the blokes who collect the kerbside plastic/glass/paper leave things in there like yoghurt pots?

[Skribble]

Most bottles are PET or HDPE and yogurt pots (well the ones in my fridge) appear to be PP or "other".

I am lucky enough to have a recycle area accross the road from me so I don't bother with the box, means people can't see how many bottles of booze I get through in a week .

[Steppy1]

...at least they recycle in Somerset....In our area in Wilts they only recently (aboout 6 months before we moved !!) introduced wheelie bins and recycling..paper only and that's you'r lot....they obviously thought that the people of Wilts didn't use bottles, or tins, or food stuff..... I'm still getting use to the variety of boxes used for recycling in Somerset !!!!!

[Journey2]

I'm in Wilts and it wound me up as to why ours would take most things but not take plastic such as yogurt pots.
The reason I have since learnt is because this is bulky it uses up the space in the recycling truck
Instead we are encouraged not to recycle this and use up space in our fortnightly black bin collection.
Apparently they are looking at the prospect of taking plastic soon.. great!
In Plymouth, they took everything (bar glass) which was not a big deal as I could rid of that in the glass bins at a supermarket.
I find it very confusing the different rules according to which county one is in!

[chestnutty]

btw. I had a postcrd from the council in my recycling box stating that i had put the wrong sort of plastic in(not sure what) and had not separated mt cardboard and plastis ( they are in the same box and its always very full, so it does get jammed in)
Wanted to send a card back saying :-
Please put my bin back on the pavement ,not the road and not blocking the driveway.
Please replace boxes outside my house, not 4 doors down.
please collect all the recycling every time.
If you drop some newspaper, please pick it up. etc.

[chestnutty]

read an article a while back that said different plastisc had to be recycled separately and PET ie plastic bottles was one of the easiest plastics to process.

[twocatsonthebed]

38 weeks and the size of a house - so will be doing the panic dash into Bath quite soon...

But not taking the tin lids, that's just perverse. Do yours take card? Ours don't even take that, so we end up stacking tons and tons of it in the garage and never quite taking it to the tip...

[intergalacticwerewolf]

Hi twocats! I'm v well! How are you?

Our colloctors also don;t take the tops of tins, which also makes me wonder. I thought it may have been for H&S reasons, but they wear heavy gloves!

[twocatsonthebed]

hello - how are you doing?

I think they're not the same kind of plastic - certainly in London they'd take plastic bottles but not the pots. And down here in darkest Somerset, they don't even take the plastic bottles, so we have to trek to the bottle bank with them (and that doesn't take yoghurt pots either).

Don't know what the answer is; there are only so many that you can cover with fun fur and stick eyes and feet onto...