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- Salford, UK
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What? Am I not meant to put cereal boxes in?
In Sheffield we have a glass and plastic collection, but it's only jars and bottles - mo yogurt pots, lastic food trays etc. We have a seperate collection for card and paper.
I collect all my other plastic and take it to the recycle bins at the supermarket.
Cereal boxes are fine. Just don't rip them up into little pieces!
We sort by hand at the kerbside, and have to separate card from paper. Try that when everything is torn up into little bits, and you're wearing gloves, and it's blowing a freezing gale. t's amazing the effort some people put into making stuff difficult to sort. Another favourite is ramming drinks cans (aluminium) into food cans (steel). Or if you don't rip your cereal box into confetti, fill it with a glass bottle, a plastic bottle, a can, and some non-recyclable plastic.
A well sorted box takes 30 seconds to empty. The worst ones take 5 minutes.
We also only collect plastic bottles. Other stuff like tubs tends to be a mix of polymers, and less easy to recycle. Our council collect it with the recycling, but it's sorted out and goes into landfill anyway.