I don't know that they can recycle them, but generally I put anything with a recycle logo in the recycle bin. If they don't recycle recyclable stuff then they should - is my motto
I'd be careful with that. Your council has a list online of what you can and cannot recycle kerbside. If you put anything in the recycling bin that they don't recycle, they can and do dump the whole lot in general rubbish - to be incinerated or go into landfill. Indeed, they can dump recycling from your whole street. There are estimates that 10% of all things put in kerbsite recycling bins are treated as general waste, because of the dirty or unaccepted items.
I'd be careful with that. Your council has a list online of what you can and cannot recycle kerbside. If you put anything in the recycling bin that they don't recycle, they can and do dump the whole lot in general rubbish - to be incinerated or go into landfill. Indeed, they can dump recycling from your whole street. There are estimates that 10% of all things put in kerbsite recycling bins are treated as general waste, because of the dirty or unaccepted items.
Councils do differ in their approach tho. My local council have been promising to include cartons ( Long Life milk etc. ) kerbside for 18 months now but Covid (or something else ? ) appears to have pushed this further into the future. Every so often I pop a milk carton into the recycle bin to see if the policy has changed and so far, the carton is always left in the box for me to try again next time.
@philippasmith2 it's impressive that they go to the trouble of taking out the milk carton. By us the bins are mechanically lifted, so nobody actually looks through the bins - they are taken up by a crane and dumped in the back of the truck.
We have some local sites that collect Tetrapak. The council don't collect kerbside.
Incinerator here. They don't give a rat's so long as it's not too obvious. I reckon everything apart from the garden waste gets incinerated. Don't know if that's good or bad for environment but it's certainly no stress.
I was in Superdrug in town today and the lady at the pharmacy counter was just setting up a bin to collect blister packs from tablets and capsules . Whether I'll keep them somewhere until I go into town (it's only about once in a blue moon) is another matter. Our general waste now goes to this place where they apparently recover everything that they can reuse, and turn the rest into solid fuel, so I'm not over-worried about the odd tablet packet, but it's a good initiative.
On junk mail we don't get much since I registered with the mail preference service that someone linked earlier, but there's a surprising amount included with magazines etc that we subscribe to and there are always un-addressed flyers for local businesses, and all that goes straight in the recycling bin unless it's something potentially useful.
For a while we kept getting letters from Specsavers addressed to our address but to a person who doesn't live here (and never has). After sending several back with "not at this address" written on them, I eventually took one in to the local branch (when I was passing anyway) and spoke to someone about it. They apologised, and it hasn't happened again.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Our local council say "they" recycle a high percentage of waste including milk cartons.
They don't, it's farmed out to a contractor. There's the first problem, as there's a profit motive.
As I understand it some rubbish is sorted by hand on a conveyor. Big volumes, less sorting.
There's a league table for performance, we're, 25th out of 340 at 57% recycled. This is qualified by the amount per person per year at 330kg. Some areas are lower, some over 500kg.
We've four bins. One for plastic metal and glass, one for paper and card, one for garden waste and food and a "half bin" for non recyclable waste. This is collected every two weeks, the plastic and paper bins once every four weeks and the garden bin weekly.
This seems like madness to me, as the non recylable bin is always packed tight with rubbish and the green bin has naff-all in it for half the year.
I've never put out a "food" bin. I've never put out any "green" waste ( it all stays here ) and I put out a bin bag on Thursday for the first time in 8 weeks.
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Every so often I pop a milk carton into the recycle bin to see if the policy has changed and so far, the carton is always left in the box for me to try again next time.
I reckon everything apart from the garden waste gets incinerated. Don't know if that's good or bad for environment but it's certainly no stress.