Where have my recycling bags gone?
My (plastic, council-issued) recycling bags have gone …
Roadside recycling arrived here in the rurals about 4 months ago. We’ve been given a green bin for compostable waste, a bag for collecting paper, a different bag for collecting cardboard, a box for glass and a black bin for everything else. I’m sure this is nothing new for most of you, since we’re the last people in the area to get recycling facilities. (We were the last exchange in the northwest to get broadband enabled too - a whole other story).
Since there are five of us, we are entitled to a larger black bin, but I see it as a personal green challenge to stick to the smaller black bin. This means that every other Monday (yes, fortnightly collections) you can see me squashing ‘just one more bag’ of rubbish into the overloaded bin, using my complete body-weight. Not the most sophisticated or decorous of activities to be seen doing.
Anyway, this week, I put out my plastic bags full of paper and cardboard, and they’ve been disappeared. Now what? And have the binmen simply chucked the whole bag into the hopper, thus contaminating the load? To think we worry about putting staples into the paper recycling bag …
