I've been a concierge in a large AirBnB for over 2.5 years (Retirement? What retirement?) and not once, NOT ONE TIME has the recycling been done correctly by families, old folk, youngsters, black, white or in between. Just doesn't happen. The poor groundsman has to go through each and every bin picking out tissues, dirty nappies, unmention-in-polite-companiables! People are lazy.
A couple of weeks ago we stayed at a place where the information about what should go into recycling, and what into general waste could not have been clearer - to me anyway. A couple of days in I checked the recycling bin and there was all manner of stuff in there that shouldn't have been. I asked the missus why and she said she wasn't sure what went where! The recycling list was exactly the same as the one at home!
I'd double up on the checks. I'm certain that since Brexit/Covid/Ukraine the packaging in Sainsbury's has changed (maybe different packaging suppliers being used because of those events?) and what was recyclable no longer is according to the packaging.
In the supermarket yesterday, I saw a woman removing all of the excess packaging from her purchases before she put them in her shopping bags. The trouble is, there's a lot of useful information on the outer packaging - and the barcode. An insert or a stick on label might solve this.
Maybe they can have a coloured sticker system that's easier to see rather than having to try to find the recycling info (Sainsbury's now have some items that have the recycling stuff on the back of the label - which is fine until you freeze the stuff and the label becomes soggy on defrost and you can't peel it off without destroying the label).
We have cloth, drawstring bags which we use in supermarkets for holding and weighing loose veg. The only fruit and veg I buy wrapped in plastic punnets are chestnut mushrooms which rarely appear loose for some reason and strawberries.
If I buy meat or fish at the counter it comes wrapped in paper with a plastic film inside and that can go in the recycling bin. If I buy it ready wrapped it comes in plastic trays which I can recycle for garden use as saucers for seedlings or put in the recycling bin.
I do worry tho that France exports a lot of its recycling to 3rd world countries where I suspect most ends up polluting local eco systems, waterways and oceans. Politicians really do need to think about the effects of their policies on the whole world and not just their immediate voters' prospects.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
(Sainsbury's now have some items that have the recycling stuff on the back of the label - which is fine until you freeze the stuff and the label becomes soggy on defrost and you can't peel it off without destroying the label).
Been there, done that. It's not just recycling info. Cooking info goes the same way.
We had dark, ominous skies and then...rain...huzzah...2.4mm, then it stopped and is just hot and humid (28.5 in my living room @ 55% hum-a-ditty). Oppressive or what?
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A couple of weeks ago we stayed at a place where the information about what should go into recycling, and what into general waste could not have been clearer - to me anyway. A couple of days in I checked the recycling bin and there was all manner of stuff in there that shouldn't have been. I asked the missus why and she said she wasn't sure what went where! The recycling list was exactly the same as the one at home!
If I buy meat or fish at the counter it comes wrapped in paper with a plastic film inside and that can go in the recycling bin. If I buy it ready wrapped it comes in plastic trays which I can recycle for garden use as saucers for seedlings or put in the recycling bin.
I do worry tho that France exports a lot of its recycling to 3rd world countries where I suspect most ends up polluting local eco systems, waterways and oceans. Politicians really do need to think about the effects of their policies on the whole world and not just their immediate voters' prospects.