And so begins the Orwellian nightmare 😱🤣
New recycling rules 31st March 2026
- Thread starter PeteXXX
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And so begins the Orwellian nightmare 😱🤣
Have you a link for this? I've not heard anything about it. In Leeds we only have 3 bins, black is general waste, brown is garden waste and green is recycling. There's no time to get a new bin to everyone so it can't be coming in here for ages yet.
Also they only just added glass to the allowed list of stuff for the green bins last year so changing it again would cause no end of confusion.
Also they only just added glass to the allowed list of stuff for the green bins last year so changing it again would cause no end of confusion.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Google Simpler Recycling UK there are tons of articles
Here's the underlying regulations, it's aimed at local authorities telling them what they need to do
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/simpler-recycling-household-recycling-in-england
Edit :beaten to the punch by @PeteXXX
There doesn’t seem to be any indication that you will be fined for putting the wrong thing in the recycling.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Except it isn't. Correction on the gov website
https://deframedia.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/15/inaccurate-reporting-on-fines-under-simpler-recycling/
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Canonbie
It was very frustrating when I lived in England that each council did recycling differently. I lived in Northumberland and couldn't recycle yogurt cartons (for example), but my work colleague living 6 miles away in North Tyneside could. Another colleague living in Washington had different rules again. We all worked in Newcastle so something that we discarded in the office might have to be disposed of differently to when at home. It's no wonder that people just shoved everything in the general waste bin.
I believe these rule changes are to standardise things.
I believe these rule changes are to standardise things.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
There are also some new regs coming in for places like shops and cafés and fast food places for where you dispose of coffee cups and packaging and stuff ... I think. I could be mistaken - my source for that was "a bloke on YouTube".
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
That's right, 3 bins, brown for garden waste, black for land fill, green for recycling, with glass allowed in now, as well as aerosols, the black bin hardly has anything in it these days, whilst the green one is full to the brim, I think that the cobblers about different types of plastic will go out of the window, as the the price of plastic pellets used in manufacturing plastics have sky rocketed too, all thanks to the orange imbecile in the Whitehouse
No change in Leeds, stays as 3 bins with current rules.
https://news.leeds.gov.uk/news/leed...new-brown-bin-food-collection-trial-announced
https://news.leeds.gov.uk/news/leed...new-brown-bin-food-collection-trial-announced
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Doesn't start round here until June. The main differences are the separation of paper/card from plastics, finally adding glass and soft plastic to the recycling collections and the food waste bins.
Garden waste bins are subject to a yearly charge, so I don't bother and either take the bits down to the local recycling centre once every month or two or the main non-recycling bin takes two black sacks of grass clippings hidden under other rubbish.
Garden waste bins are subject to a yearly charge, so I don't bother and either take the bits down to the local recycling centre once every month or two or the main non-recycling bin takes two black sacks of grass clippings hidden under other rubbish.
