Exactly what we do which is why the sticker was so annoying.Kateg28 wrote:I am so dutiful that my son and partner like to watch. I even sift through our living room bin as they insist on putting cans and plastic bottles in it despite me telling them, forcefully. Even monkeys learn but not apparently these two!
Anyhow, I remove the plastic from food trays and wash the trays, I take lids off milk cartons, I put my food waste in a brown paper bag, I am a good citizen!
I recycle plastic bags by using them for other tasks around the house, usually my partner's packed lunch.
And, as an aside, my partner runs a business and pays for his waste to be taken away in one of those small commercial skips. He also pays for his cardboard to be recycled. The cardboard colelction is more expensive by volume than the rubbish collection and it would make commercial sense for him not to bother (Luckily he does).
Where is the incentive there?
Then to add to it I went to Westmill Monday morning with some stuff that won't go in the bins, takes quite a lot for me to pluck up courage to go up there, only to be turned away as they were "not taking any metals today" ! Make you see why people fly tip!