Sorting the recycling!

In South Australia since 1977 we have had a deposit on cans, bottles and drink cartons, which is returned when the container is taken to a recycling place. The rest of Australia has lagged behind and are still talking about it even though they know it works. Really how hard is it to pay an extra 10 cents (about 5p) and 20 cents on large bottles. Think of all the glass and aluminium cans that have been recycled in South Australia over the last thirty years odd years that have not ended up in landfill. You won't ever see an empty can or carton laying on the roadside.

We are lucky here in that everything gets collected on the same day, every week and goes to the MK recycling plant.
In my MILs there are different intervals and different days of the week for different coloured bins!
Blue box for glass
We have pink bags for recyclables
Green bin for food and green waste
Black bag for landfill
our black bag does not get a lot of stuff in it.
Food waste is a few chicken bones or a bit of fish skin.
I have a compost bin and use those decomposable "plastic' bags to collect it in.
My BIL is in the recycling business and he says it is not worth washing. But he keeps his in the garage. I rinse if likely to smell in the kitchen. e.g. a milk carton

grannyactivist. I live in Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse. Compared with systems in other places where family and friends live, our system really is easy-peasy.

We are only allowed to use black plastic sacks in the non recycling bin. Everything else is expected to be loose although the Council 'allows' brown bags - compostable for food waste NOT recyclable plastic caddy bags. It drives me nuts when I go away and have to rethink everything. I do wonder sometimes if it's worth it. Burn the lot??????

I use the clear bio degradeable bags for food waste. I prefer the brown paper, but I can't get them any more

There has been a lot of debate about incineration. gg. The main bone of contention was what to do with the ash which contained toxic dioxins. I know that local incinerators fuel some communities' power and heating systems in - I think - Denmark, but don't know how they have solved the problem of the ash.

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Since we moved down to Devon in October, it has taken me until now to sort out the recycling, which is completely different from Medway! I watched the recycling people look at my plastics box, and walk away from it. Then I put the wrong things (which had been the right things before), into the bottles bin. And so on. At Christams, Theseua went to the tip with some black bags (into which you put everything about which you can't make a decision) and the tip police examined a bag and gave it back because it had some orange peel in it. (HE eats the oranges!)

Think I have it right now...off to the hospital to see how the orange peel offender is doing!