Why oh why oh why don't the government have one strategy for recycling instead of letting each local authority decide how they will implement the recycling agenda? At the moment, there is a recycling service in our district. It is ran by a voluntary organisation who get paid by the council, but as they are paid on weight, it's not cost-effective to collect plastic. I have complained to the council about this in the past. I have now located another local project which does take old plastic for recycling, and it is a relatively easy matter for us to take our plastic there as it is within walking distance. Obviously though this isn't the case for other people who don't live so centrally.
Incidentally, since I started recycling our plastic rubbish, our dustbin is about one third as full as it was before. Just shows you how much packaging you get nowadays. Next challenge is to get less in the first place!
In one of the metropolitan districts adjacent to ours, there are two recycling systems in place depending on where you live. One system involves taking all recyclable rubbish from people's homes, the other doesn't. How on earth do they expect people to bother, when the systems are different, often confusing, and can involve a lot of extra work?
It's about time they just said that all councils had to take all recyclable materials and sort it out. End of.
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