Recycling

[Eve]

Do you? I've been getting more and more into it recently though I wish there were more things that could be recycled.

I have even started bringing stuff home from work to put in my recycling bins where possible (plastic cordial bottles, boxes for cereal bars etc...).

Out of interest, why can't plastic carrier bags be put in household recycling bins? I reuse mine and rarely though any away unless they are battered but they inevitably mount up (as I don't like to throw them away).

As annoying as Primark paper bags are, at least they are recyclable.

[cazzz1975]

I find recycling cuts down the black bags a heck of a lot, I always thing it seems so wasteful to put recycling in the rubbish, however storing recycling between pick ups can be a messy business :/

[Barmaid]

I put my black bin out about once every 2 months. I am the recycling queen here. ANything I can put in the green bin, I do. Anything I can put in the compost I do. Anything I can feed to the chickens I do as long as I can do it legally.......

[Maydup]

The secret to carrier bags is not to collect them at all. Take shopping bags or bags for life with you when you shop, (keep some spares in the car in case you forget them) and have a little fold away bag in your handbag for impulse buys.

[daffy654]

We don't have a recycling bin, or a wheelie bin (haven't been supplied in our area). We just bag our rubbish and leave it out every Monday morning.

[gingejbee]

WE can put more or less anything into our one recycling wheelie- plastic bags, glass, mixed material packaging. Anything except polystyrene.

[Graham-W]

There's a recycling bin at our local Tescos specially for plastic carrier bags that are tired.

[Georgiesmum]

Ive always been keen on recycling, however this year we were given new recycling bins and our paper and cardboard is now only collected alternate weeks now, the same for plastic milkbottles and tins, where as it used to be every week.They have also stopped taking aerosols now and also only certain plastic s too which is frustrating as we are forced to put more into our black bags now. We have no collection at all for glass bottles or garden rubbish.