Baccus

(No posts for several months now – sorry.  Getting married took precedence!)

I just read something on the BBC about the government’s new plans to charge for waste disposal (By the way, this post isn’t about the merits or otherwise of that idea - that’s a whole new post in itself…) and I was doing some thinking about our recycling.  I know we have 2 black boxes and 1 is for paper and 1 is for plastic and metal but we’ve always been a bit unclear on what can and can’t be recycled.  So I found a site that is clear:

Wokingham Council

This lead me to this other site (I think they call that surfing…):

http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/

This was interesting reading – especially on plastics and what can be recycled and what can’t be and the reasons why.

We’ve always been very diligent and recycled anything vaguely resembling plastic – but we shouldn’t.    Only plastic bottles are OK, apparently.

So if I can’t recycle the plastic meat containers, the yoghurt pots, margerine tubs and the like I will have to throw them.  Which means I will get charged more by the council in the future!

I don’t know where I’m going with this – apart from saying that it’s not easy to recycle everything.  I think there should be much more pressure on supermarkets to deliver food without packaging that can’t be recycled and that if that pressure has to come from disgruntled homeowners being charged for rubbish collection then I’m all for it.

I think I should write a letter to my local supermarket to ask them why they can’t do more…