Questions on recycling

ROTHER's domestic cardboard recycling scheme, although 'it is proving a big success', is not treated as 'cardboard is one of the most environmentally effective materials to recycle' (Rother Views pp7). The cardboard that is put in the green bin is composted, something that Rother has been urging us to do for a long time, but could not find the wherewithal to do it itself until January this year. This is hardly the energy-saving result that one would wish for, but is probably a bit more '˜green' than burning it.

With regard to plastic re-cycling; first we are told type 1, 2 and 3 plastic, but not the type 2 plastic bottle tops. Now it seems that any plastic is okay so long as it is ‘bottle shaped’ as recycling companies can only handle ‘bottle shaped’ plastic. How do my used 4 pint type 2 square, squashed milk containers shape up then? They are anything but ‘bottle shaped’ and the tops that now seem to be okay are not ‘bottle shaped’ either. Ye Gods and little fishes, how about a definitive list of what plastic we may or may not recycle? But I suppose that will cost a lot of money, what with the printing and postal costs etc. An alternative could be to post the definitive information in the Bexhill Observer. This will reach a goodly proportion of Rother residents, either directly or by word of mouth. I’ve just thought of a better idea, we put all plastic in the black bin and you sort it out!

TJ THOMAS

De La Warr Road

Bexhill-on-Sea