Recycling yogurt pots etc.............

[girlandboy]

does anyone's local council recycle the plastic that yogurt pots/margarine tubs are made from?

We eat approximately 28 yogurts a month and consequently throw 28 pots in the black bin which goes to landfill. We perhaps use 2 margarine/spread tubs a month and about 4 ice-cream tubs as well. There are only so many of these that I can re-use for storing food in for the freezer.

I have started making my own yogurt to cut down on the yogurt pot situation, and I suppose I could buy an ice-cream maker as well, but I'm damned if I'm making my own butter just to cut down on packaging thats not recyclable.

My council doesn't recycle any of these items and I was just wondering if any of you ladies have a council that does.

we have 4 bins
grey- general waste
brown- compostables
red -card glass etc
black-paper plastic tins etc
also will take clothes,tools,etc

but like you yog pots marg tubs etc are not taken.

Well, thank you to all you ladies. This will all go into the letter I am composing for my council. I don't know why there can't be a nationwide standard. If some councils can recycle yoghurt pots, then I don't see why they all can't.

A small (and rather obvious) point, but it helps to buy a few big pots rather than lots of the individual ones.

our council (Derbyshire Dales) is rubbish we have

Black bin household rubbish weekly
green bin garden waste/compostable fortnightly
Blue box glass fortnightly
bag newspaper only fortnightly

no plastic or magazines/envelopes/junk mail or tin... i have to take it to sainsburys

and my mums road (next village to us) dont even have wheelie bins and no recycling just weekly black sacks!!

We eat butter rather than marg-type stuff because (a) it tastes soooo much nicer (b) the paper it comes in goes in the paper recycling box and (c) when I look at the ingredients on butter I know what they are (milk, salt) and on marg-types, I have no idea.