Recycling - Blue Wheelie Bin Confusion
Like everyone around us we recently got our new blue wheelie bin (or is it wheely bin?) - a significant step forward for recycling in the county.
I think Clackmannanshire Council are making a great effort on the recycling front.
There have been plenty of reports of schemes being let down by failings further down the line, and perhaps there are flies in the ointment in this neck of the woods - I don't know.
Recycling wheelie bins were recently introduced
But no authority can have a working recycling scheme if they haven't got the collection right, and Clacks Council seems to have done an excellent job on that.
However, though there's not much that I have to deal with in life that confuses me, some of the practicalities of the new regime do.
Hopefully I'll get my head around it and will soon be putting the right bit of rubbish in the right place but, for now, I frequently don't know what to do with a particular bit of throw-away stuff without asking my wife.
Slightly more disconcerting is that my wife also sometimes asks me what she should do with something, though that's now tailing off. I expect it's because she's fed up with the blank look she gets from me when she asks.
One of the things I'm not at all confident we've got right is the issue of cellophane.
Cellophane shouldn't go in the recycling, if I understood the blurb correctly.
But what is cellophane, for recycling purposes?
I did a quick search on the web and immediately found something about polypropylene and cellophane.
Presentation & Retail bags are mainly made from high clarity polypropylene or cellophane.
However, polypropylene have the advantage of being less expensive than cellophane (cello) bags.
So a bag can be made of polypropylene or cellophane. They are different things.
On the other hand higher in the list of pages my search threw up was a page from a company selling cellophane rolls made of polypropylene.
That suggests a little confusion to me. If polypropylene is different to cellophane, then a roll of polypropylene can't be a roll of cellophane.
It might seem academic, but it still leaves me holding a defunct plastic (or not plastic) bag and wondering whether or not I should put it in the recycling bin.
Even if I could tell the difference between polypropylene and cellophane.
