I saw someone piling a vast quantity of plastic into their blue bin this morning. Sheet plastic isn't recyclable and shouldn't go in the blue bin. Now, having moved from another area, where the rules are different, I'm the first to admit that it can be difficult to work out what goes in which bin. But I'm very unclear about the etiquette if one sees a neighbour filling the recycling bin with non recyclables. Do I rush out and tell him, like a busybody? Or would that be the neighbourly thing to do? Too late, I've missed my chance and he's gone inside again.
I only recently learned that to be a good recycler, you should ensure that card and foil isn't contaminated with food residue, and bottles are properly washed out and clean. You shouldn't just toss that shampoo bottle into the recycling bin - wash it out first. And if there are food particles adhering to that pizza box, put it in the black bin and not the blue.
Recycling in Market Rasen is very different from Hillingdon Borough. They accept aerosols, tetrapaks, plastics marked 1 and 2, as well as the normal glass, card, paper and tins and cans. I discovered that they have a
handy A-Z guide that tells you which bin to put things in.
They also have a recycling centre on the industrial estate, which takes a lot of stuff in addition - textiles, batteries, oil, soil, wood, gas cylinders, with very helpful staff (although they guard their always largely empty staff car park aggressively).
