https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20128/household_recycling_and_waste_collections/1597/plastic_recycling_in_your_red_box The Daily Mail is busy getting its knickers in a twist about this.  You don't need to.  I don't know where the note came from but I would expect a bigger and better announcement from the Council if they were going to change their collection including info on the website and that hasn't changed.  LBH like many other Councils are collecting black plastic rigid tubs and trays in the recycling collection.  There has been a difficulty with the optical scanners reading black plastic but WRAP has been working to find a dye scanners don't have difficulty with. There is more than one type of black plastic anyway. Technology changes all the time.  Unless the Council says otherwise officially just give them what they ask for and let them get on with it.  They have most definitely asked that film (ie non-rigid plastic - carrier bags - bread and vegetable bags - and peel-off film lids from containers etc are NOT included in the KERBSIDE collection) which really is not difficult but still some people cannot deal with that change - yet products, markets and machinery constantly change. There is a big problem with heavy and pushy marketing which tries its luck and puts so much unnecessary packaging on the market and into our homes and then it is left up to us and the Councils to dispose of it. On the Continent you can leave excess packaging at the tills/at the shop. In Ireland they have been trialling that but it would be even better if we all could easily buy goods with less.  In 2006 the then Minister told us to leave our excess packaging at the till.  We don't protest enough and so are complicit in giving ourselves this packaging waste mountain. Many people decide of their own volition not to buy all the packaging or difficult to recycle packaging by buying their fruit and vegetables from the greengrocer and meat from the butcher where you can often take your own container - or you are given it in a small plastic bag rather than a container. You can often also buy meals that you can slide out of silver foil and cardboard packaging into a piedish to heat in the microwave - if you have a microwave lifestyle.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	15/01/18 09:59:00	Jennifer Selig
Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	15/01/18 10:10:00	Sarah Felstead
Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	15/01/18 14:59:00	Jennifer Selig
Re:Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	15/01/18 18:15:00	Iain Muir
Re:Re:Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	15/01/18 18:22:00	Jennifer Selig
Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	15/01/18 18:26:00	Philippa Bond
Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	17/01/18 12:02:00	Sarah Thomas
Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	17/01/18 15:00:00	Sarah Felstead
Re:Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	17/01/18 15:12:00	Sarah Thomas
Re:Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	17/01/18 15:30:00	Philippa Bond
Re: Difficult to Recycle	19/01/18 19:30:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re: Difficult to Recycle	19/01/18 22:37:00	Virginia Fassnidge
Re:Re:Re: Difficult to Recycle/Dealing with Fat & Oil	23/01/18 17:14:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re: Difficult to Recycle/Dealing with Fat & Oil	09/03/18 17:54:00	Philippa Bond
Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	11/03/18 20:23:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	13/03/18 12:38:00	Jennifer Selig
Re:Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	13/03/18 12:50:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	18/03/18 17:46:00	Philippa Bond
Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	19/03/18 07:32:00	Andy Herrick
Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	19/03/18 12:02:00	Philippa Bond
Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	19/03/18 16:21:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:BLACK PLASTIC FOOD POTS/TRAYS	20/03/18 22:42:00	Philippa Bond
Glass Prices	23/03/18 14:02:00	Philippa Bond
Re: Textile Bank Scams:  Textiles are valuable	24/03/18 10:10:00	Philippa Bond

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