Tim, I agree that recycling plastic is frustrating. When I looked into this last year the council’s rather uninspiring response was:
Thanks for your web response regarding what plastics we recycle. However, the plastics listed are the only plastics recycled in our’s and around 90% of other Councils.
Basically we only accept plastic bottles.
As the recycle-more site you pointed to says, it would seem the reason for many plastics not being recyclable is that there’s not the market for the recycled material. So I guess the answer is to try and reduce instead of recycle.
I was interested to learn that Tetra Pak can be recycled… although not round here yet. Amazingly, you can post them back if you want — at your own expense. I wonder what the eco-nomics of this are?
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