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Recycling tips

Lambeth Recycling Doctors have been out on the streets over the past couple of months, discovering what residents have been putting in their recycling bins. The most common incorrect materials they've found are:

Plastic film: this has cropped up in one form or another in around 80% of the bins they've looked at. Although much household plastic packaging is recyclable, a good rule of thumb is that if it can be scrunched up into a ball, it can't be recycled. 

Food waste: this is mainly a result of food packaging not being emptied and rinsed sufficiently, although they've also found banana skins, meat bones and bags of potatoes!

Tissues and kitchen roll: even though they're made of paper, the fibres are too short and low grade to be recycled effectively. Also, if they've been used for mopping up kitchen spills or blowing noses, they're too soiled. 

Please do not put these items into your recycling bin.