After a trip to the tip, Ellina Webb ponders over the trivial topic of recycling to uncover if 70% of waste really can be recycled or reused in some way.
This weekend I finally decided to clear out some of the clutter which has been gathering in the spare room.
Flat packed boxes from old online orders, plastic packaging from even older online orders and a back catalogue of Vogue from who knows when.
Aside from what seemed to me like ‘recyclable rubbish’, there were other random bits of junk that I no longer needed, from broken glassware to half burnt candles, so I packed up the car and headed to the local recycling centre.
Conveniently last month the Government released its UK Statistics on Waste announcing that the UK recycling rate for waste from households was 45.2% in 2016, up from 44.6% in 2015 and on target to meeting EU targets for the UK to recycle at least 50% of household waste by 2020. Great news!
Bye bye Barney.
It seems to me like the easiest item to recycle is a cardboard box, its simple to flat pack and match up to the right skip, but for everything else, the crowds gathering on the day I went to the tip were heaviest around the ‘non-recyclable plastic’ bin.
Continue reading Down in the dumps with recycling at SPECIFIER REVIEW.
source https://specifierreview.com/2018/11/08/recycling-confusion/
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