Plastic Milk Bottles, but no Yoghurt Pots. Logic?
Posted by Martin in Reduce, re-use, recycle | 23 November 2008
I've just come across an article in our local paper, which informs the locals what they can and can't put in their nice shiny blue box.
This is what it says :
Plastic bottles :
We can collect plastic milk bottles, shampoo bottles, detergent bottles and drink bottles from your blue box. Please remove the lids and squash.
We cannot collect yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, plastic food trays, punnets, plastic tubes or plastic wrapping.
Cardboard:
We can collect greeting cards, clean cardboard packaging, toilet roll centres and thick cardboard from your blue box.
We cannot collect fruit juice/milk cartons (Tetra paks) or cardboard which has been contaminated with food waste.
I'm now left wondering, what's the difference between a plastic milk bottle and a yoghurt pot? They have both been contaminated by food, so that can't be the reason and are both plastic.
So I'm left feeling rather confused and wondering what the logic is. Ideas anyone?
