Watis wrote:On the matter of recycling, how many of you are aware that soft plastics such as crisp packets and cellophane now be recycled at Coop stores?
Funny, I'd never thought of a crisp packet as a soft plastic. But fair enough, its great that somebody is prepared to accept that sort of stuff. Around these parts, you can get a warning letter from the council if you leave the cellophane tops on your tubs of coleslaw, or the foil on your yoghurt pots.
Until quite recently, our local garden centre was the only place where you could recycle black plastic flower pots, which can't go into the usual plastic recycling. (Apparently they confuse the optical sorting machines, so the council doesn't want them.) I believe there was a national campaign to get a recycling centre (any centre, anywhere) to spend just one day a month on recycling nothing but black pots (so no possibility of confusion), but AFAIK there were no takers. So the nation's landfill sites are filling up with hundreds of millions of black plastic pots that the councils just can't be @rsed to deal with.
Harrumph.
BJ