Put Out More PETS


Great news for ardent green recyclers in the Borders-a major expansion in the sort of material that is now accepted 'kerbside'-aerosol cans for example but more significantly all types of (transparent) plastic (not just PET 1 and PET 2) including cling wrap and plastic bags(although, curiously not black ones. So you can recycle your wheelie bin but not the bin liner)

Good news indeed but why so coy about it. There is a small news item on page 12 of the Berwickshire and a little self congratulatory piece on www.scotborders.gov.uk/recycling and thats it. So I suspect that not many people know about this great leap forward. So why not tell them? A letter to all households on recycled paper perhaps?

Ironically there has just been a new issue of the appropriate recycling plastic bags. But the out of date ones with the old highly restrictive categories of what was permissible:No doubt the newly labelled ones will be out in a years time. So if people have doubts as what to do with their inaccurately labelled clear plastic bags-Hutton Think Tank's (HTT) advice is :

Recycle them.

(The image is of a recent recycling exercise involving HTT's files)

Labels: Recycling, Scottish Borders Council

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