PerspectivesOnPlastic

Three empty large plastic manure bags are sitting in the garden. At the bottom left you will see the sign that these are recyclable.  That's the theory.  It's always worth checking however.  Jessie Harrison-Ford from Herts County Council Waste Management emails me in reply to an enquiry about these bags to say: ' Plastic bags cannot be recycled on our sites as the plastic is of such low quality there is no market for it and these currently go into the residual waste which goes to landfill.' So... just because it says it IS recyclable, doesn't mean it can be.  At least not where I live.  These are large bags and that's a lot of landfill space I don't want to be filling.  The same applies to the magazine wrappers in a previous post. What would it take to be able to recycle these recyclable plastics? Does anyone recycle them?  The questions accumulate.  

I vastly prefer soya milk, but only wholebean organic since the taste of other soya milks doesn't suit.   And it comes in cartons which I have been putting in my recycling box... but reading about cardboard cups with plastic linings, I wonder if I am doing the right thing.  On the side of my Alpro Soya carton it says 'buying this Tetra Pak (R) carton helps you care for the world's forests'. That's good... but what about the oceans and the planet generally. I have a look at the Alpo website (see  https://www.alpro.com/uk/faq/detail/can-alpro-packs-be-recycled )  and it says... Yes. Tetra Pak® cartons are a lightweight, low resource, energy-saving form of packaging, designed to have minimum impact on the environment throughout their life. It is the only liquid food packaging made principally from a renewable resource – wood. The Tetra Pak® carton used for our products is designed to provide an energy efficient, airtight and safe m...