On 22/06/2020 17:05, Scott wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:30:49 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Chris Hogg wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 06:26:53 -0700 (PDT), polygonum_on_google
wrote:

On Monday, 22 June 2020 14:07:38 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
tim... wrote:
what to do

you can't put them in the normal rubbish

How would they know? Do your dustmen go through the rubbish? ;-)


Yes. They do.

Agreed. I had a sharp note written on a scrap of cardboard the other
week, saying that if I put out tissues with the waste paper for
recycling, they wouldn't take any of it. Reasonable comment, I
suppose, except that I don't use tissues for blowing my nose etc, only
for cleaning my specs, but they're not to know.

Different matter with stuff in the recycle bin. The wrong material could
contaminate the whole batch. And tissues may not be made from paper which
can be recycled. Same as some kitchen 'paper' and wet wipes.

I thought it passed along a long conveyor belt with electromagnets to
remove ferrous items, air jets to lift the paper and cans and teams of
pickers to remove unsuitable and wrongly categorised items.

I also thought the paper and card was pulped with all impurities
removed at that stage, so would plastic contaminant make any
difference? They seem to cope with the ink okay so why not a bit of
plastic?


Biodegradeable plastic bags render perfectly re-usable plastic
from being recycled.