Recycling Tips - Organising Your Recycling

Recycling can be really confusing. One of thethe only thing you really need is good set of
reasons for this confusion is that there seems torecycling bins to separate the different items. As
be no parity in the different recycling schemes upa rule of thumb items should be separated into
and down the country.plastics, paper/card, glassware and metals. A good
It seems that each local authority and council hastip is to also use multicoloured bins or lids to make
a different scheme and accepts different itemsthings easier for the household to remember.
for recycling. Some accept plastics, others do not;However, if you don;t have space for lots of
some require separate recycling bins for glass anddifferent bins you can use twin or triple recycling
paper, others will accept them mixed; Gardenbins that have separate compartments for the
waste may have to go in a separate recycling bin,different recyclable items. And don't forget if
whilst household waste might be limited...its enoughthere are items that are not accepted for
to make you want to pull your hair out.recycling they may be accepted elsewhere such
However, recycling shouldn't be confusing andas a bottle bank or tin and can bank. And if you
your local authority will have information regardingwant to further cut down on some of the waste
their policies and the collections that they acceptyou are disposing of in the regular rubbish, you
but to make your life a little it is often a goodcan do other forms of recycling such as
idea to properly organise you recycling so if therecomposting food waste in a garden or kitchen
is ever any change in the local rules you are wellcomposter or using a logmaker to turn discarded
prepared.paper into fuel for an open fire or stove.
Organising your recycling is not hard to do and