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"Martin" wrote in message
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What really confuses me is that they will accept glass bottles for
recycling, but not old window/picture glass; plastic bottles, but not
other
plastic packaging (even when it's the same plastic!); news papers but not
yellow pages/old phone books/junk mail.....?

Recycling is important, I do all I can; but the rules just don't seem to
make any sense!

I agree, it doesnt make sense. And why does junk mail go in with the
newspaper but cardboard has to be put seperately?

Why take plastic milk bottles but not plastic lemonade bottles?
There are so many exceptions.


Depends on where you live and on the exact scheme operating it seems.

In some parts of Leeds (such as ours) there is 'Green Bin' scheme for
recycling.

We get a green wheelie bin as well as a black one.

In the green one we can put:

all sorts of papers, magazines, telephone catalogues etc. though not
envelopes (something to do with the glue and the recycling process I
think) and cardboard.

Plastic bottles of all sorts

Cans and Aluminium foil, etc.

They ask you not to put in glass bottle -I have a plastic box by the
green bin that they go in.

It is collected monthly by what looks like a standard refuse type truck
and taken to a sorting station (and in answer to a previous post - yes
this place does exist - I've seen it)

While a pre-sorting system sounds good, I have to say, having taken part
in one before, I do much prefer this from my POV.

I don't have to have different bags/boxes cluttering up the place - ok
if we did I'd probably manage it ok, we have the space. But if I lived
in one of Leeds many back-to-backs? It's bad enough then finding place
for a wheelie bin.
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Chris French, Leeds