On 23/03/2018 17:44, Tim Streater wrote:


I'm sure I saw an article in the Times asking us not to do that,
because it confuses the separation machine at the recyclers. I was
flattening the bottles until I saw that, so I could get more into the
kitchen recycle bins (before emptying those into the wheelie bins).


I'll bet the first thing that happens to the plastic waste when
collected from your property is that it gets well and truly compacted in
the back of the dustcart. A lot of recycling is transported perhaps a
hundred miles to central locations and it makes no sense to transport
light weight material un-compacted.

It's much the same as being allowed to put glass into our recycling
sacks BUT it cannot be broken glass. This also gets compacted on collection.

--
mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk