Recycling plastic

[BillyBB]

Is Polypropylene more expensive to recycle? Our council does not accept it.

Some food containers have a concentric squares pattern, does this denote a type of plastic?

I remove milk bottle tops but include them in the bag, do these get recycled or binned?

[gen2]

The concentric squares icon on electrical items means 'double insulated' so it does not need an earth connection. I have never seen it on food items.

[BillyBB]

They accept types 1, 2 and 3 but we are still throwing away PP and the very thin vacuum formed stuff with no ID. Some of the thin stuff has this 1/2" square symbol with multiple squares disappearing into the middle.

I'm sure the milk container tops are different plastic to the bottle and wanted to know what it was.

[theprof]

EDDIE51

Sorry to be a pedant but the majority of 2 litre plastic drink bottles are made from a polymer spelt Polyethylene Terephthalate. The abbreviated form is PET not PTE.