Lack of communication between Veolia and Biffa's Materials Recycling Facility (MURF) - which actually reprocesses the contents of recycling bins at Enfield's Ecopark - has resulted in some serious misinformation. All those tetrapaks that Veolia says you can put in your green bin are not recycled at all - because they are lined with plastic (though Biffa say that other facilities do recycle them). This emerged when a group of local people were given a tour of the Biffa Murf facility, and took the trouble to check with Biffa whether the items listed in Veolia's recycling leaflet really are recycled!
Other questions they asked concerned:
- what to do with plastic bottle tops - answer, take them off the bottles, but put both in the bin.
- Veolia's leaflet shows newspapers tied with string - don't do this, because the string wraps itself round the machines.
- loose plastic bags - can be recycled
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Thank you. Shame about tetrapacks, but very good to know about plastic bags, and to have the bottle top tip!
Thanks very much for this. I've been taking plastic bottle tops off before recycling them so got that bit right but am pleased for the guidance on plastic bags.