Recycling Tips – Organising Your Recycling

Recycling can be really confusing. One of the reasons for this confusion is that there seems to be no parity in the different recycling schemes up and down the country.

It seems that each local authority and council has a different scheme and accepts different items for recycling. Some accept plastics, others do not; some require separate recycling bins for glass and paper, others will accept them mixed; Garden waste may have to go in a separate recycling bin, whilst household waste might be limited…its enough to make you want to pull your hair out.

However, recycling shouldn’t be confusing and your local authority will have information regarding their policies and the collections that they accept but to make your life a little it is often a good idea to properly organise you recycling so if there is ever any change in the local rules you are well prepared.

Organising your recycling is not hard to do and the only thing you really need is good set of recycling bins to separate the different items. As a rule of thumb items should be separated into plastics, paper/card, glassware and metals. A good tip is to also use multicoloured bins or lids to make things easier for the household to remember.

However, if you don;t have space for lots of different bins you can use twin or triple recycling bins that have separate compartments for the different recyclable items.

Triple Recycling Bin

And don’t forget if there are items that are not accepted for recycling they may be accepted elsewhere such as a bottle bank or tin and can bank. And if you want to further cut down on some of the waste you are disposing of in the regular rubbish, you can do other forms of recycling such as composting food waste in a garden or kitchen composter or using a logmaker to turn discarded paper into fuel for an open fire or stove.

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