Britain to get recycling standards – finally

I was at an environmental training day for a local school last week. I did the climate bit, and then a council officer from the waste team did the bit about recycling. She spent her entire time answering questions about what could and could not be recycled. Plastic bottles? Yes. Plastic anything else, no.

Yes, including yoghurt pots – only bottles here. Yes, including meat trays – only bottles here.

One reason for the confusion is that many staff worked in Luton but lived elsewhere, and ...