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How are you with recycling? Do you feel like you do all you can or could it be better?
I used to be lazy about things that needed washing like food trays and tins but this year I've been making more of an effort and I can't believe how much more I'm now putting in the recycling bins.
I actively recycle 
everyday. I have a separate bin for plastic items and make sure when we have visitors. I wash out all my plastic tubs, tins, bottles etc and make sure all of these are put into the correct bins. It actually gives me a sense of satisfaction 
My husband is so much better than me. I will recycle as best I can but my husband is the one who washes things out.
eyeballkerry my husband is the opposite, he just can't be bothered sometimes which drives me nuts. I often pick up cardboard from the regular bin when the recycling bin is pretty much next to it
!! Family are just lazy! I like to recycle do my bit it makes me feel good! 
kitty88uk Any chance you could come round to mine once a week and sort it all out! You will feel really really good then.
eyeballkerry Lmao 
already having trouble as it is picking up after my family! They are so lazy!! 
kitty88uk Depending on the type of carton, our council doesn't take tetrapack (the type with foil inside) - if you put the wrong item in the recycling bin, they used to not take the bins, leaving them too full for another 2 wks. Not sure if they do that now anymore though - it happened a long time ago, I think when we put a cardboard egg carton box in.
As much as I can I recycle. I take card home from some of soups to recycle as my work doesn't recycle.
Yep, we recycle as much as we can, but by the sounds of it, most of it ends up in landfill anyway.
What is the point in me washing out all non clear tubs when they can't be recycled anyway? But that's what the council wants us to do. And it takes a load of water to do, but we're told to not use so much water.
just don’t know what to do really!! kitty88uk TheChimp We mostly do a rinse at most, not a proper wash. Sometimes I use 'used' water while I'm washing up other items to soak/rinse (maybe have a guilt trip/ocd attack to wash properly once in a while) but I try not to waste water and my family says they wash it at the recycling plant anyway so why are we wasting our water/money.
I assume depending on which recycling plant different colours can/cannot be recycled - ours specify nothing black, even though a lot of it is recyclable.
I also recently read that plastics can only be recycled about 3 times at most.
I recycle as much as I can, even take certain things to the special recycling bits at the supermarket for stuff you can't recycle at home. Our recycling bins need to be bigger, they are always full within a few days
I like to think my family are pretty good at recycling, we have separate bins so makes it quite easy.
I try to recycle as much as possible but our collections aren't always reliable so sometimes we have no choice but to dispose of it as we simply can store it anymore.
No, employees are paid to separate the trash so that's what they should do. Or burn it.
This comment from YT is spot on:
Also, self-checkout machines at grocery stores treat customers like employees to work for free when they're the ones who should handle it. I don't mind if it's 1, 2, or 3 items, but more than that and the machine gets an error every so often? Pass.
I try and recycle everything I can, my black wheelie bin for normal household waste doesn’t go out for months as between our council kerbside now also taking all plastic containers and the supermarkets are taking plastics like crisps wrappers. I hardly get any non recyclable waste. I’ve been a keen recycler since blue Peter did the can recycling when I was a kid and our family carried on recycling all that we could taking it to the recycling banks in the car parks and I’ve just carried on
Can’t remember when I started to recycle more but yeah I was like cba at first and rinsing items clean 
but once you start doing it, it becomes a habit
Now I can’t say and seeing recycling items thrown all on the kitchen bin! 
I do what I can like loo rolls and tissue boxes, and all sorts of boxes 
too
I started taking plastic bags to supermarkets to recycle too
Ans now I even look at crisps packets lol it says to take to recycle I think 
it’s with the plastic bags but I’m not sure
Ans did take some glass jar 
to recycle too
We recycle and compost. Also we’ve upcycled some furniture which took longer than expected because once the furniture had been Annie Sloane and waxed I decided I didn’t like the colour so had to done again.
Where we live we have a food caddy, household waste bin and a bigger recycling bin. Luckily unlike the mother in law we don't have to separate EVERYTHING or they won't take hers and my sister in law used to have to take hers to a recycling centre as they didn't do home collections.
We also used our compost bin.
Our current town currently takes fabrics, cooking oil, batteries, small electronics and more too, so have been very lucky.
We pay for a garden waste bin as we had outdoor animals and our garden waste bin and compost bin would happily take used vegetarian animal waste, from rabbits, but the garden waste at our recycling centre doesn't allow it in the garden waste and it has to go in general waste, so if they don't collect our garden waste bin like they didn't as much during Covid or our the winter period, we had a back log as I refused to put it in general waste.
I sell or give away everything I can some good sites are: Freecycle, Freegle, FreelyWheely, Preloved, Freeads, Gumtree, Shpock, Vinted, Olio app, Food banks, Charities, School, Facebook Groups/Marketplace and anywhere else I can.
Sadly we will soon be without a garden and I'm not sure they have a food caddy in the area we are moving to. But we will be closer to a local recycling centre, currently we have one around 15 minutes away but it is in the wrong district so we have to travel 35 minutes out.
I used to save any cans to recycle at our local Tescos which I used to gain Tesco points, when the machine worked 
I now use the Bower recycling app and get paid to recycle at home.
I also have a pile of bags and plastic packets ready to recycle at my local store recycling point.
Useful links:
www.gov.uk/recycling-collections
I recycle as much as I can I make sure everyone washes everything out ,I know a bin man and he said there in no point in our area as everything goes to the one place as loads of people are not doing it properly but I still keep doing it
I do as much as possible, I also now take things to the supermarket that cannot be recycled at home. It really hit home when we saw the TV programme about all the plastic being dumped in the sea and we didn't even know they were doing that 
very scary
Thanks for this topic yes we do recycle I really like doing that one ting do irritate me when family members throw recycling items in rubbish bin
most likely cans or bottles then they have to listen my lecture how to use recycle bin,I think it’s good to do 
I always fill my recycling right to the brim. Like everyone else on LD’s I make sure everything is washed before it’s chucked. As for my dustbin, I only have two small bags for collection every fortnight.
I recycle everything that I can and put everything that needs washing through the dishwasher. Glass goes to bottle bank, grass cuttings to the local recycling plant as they use it for compost, try and sell unwanted clothes or donate to the charity shop.
I wear my underwear for longer so I do not have to use electricity or water 
sometimes it's nearly a month when I decide it's time
Out for a rare walk a few days ago I came across 4 or 5 pink sacks leaning against a random tree full of green garden waste. Pink sacks here are for glass, paper and tins, you have to buy your own compostable sacks for garden waste, if you don't buy and pay yearly fee for a green wheelie bin. So, I guess that will just sit rotting forever. Then as I neared home a small bedside cabinet was still on pavement, has been there weeks. People can be so scummy.
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