Here are the most common mistakes to avoid – and the recyclables at home that you might be missing. “I think people have a tendency to hope something can be recycled, rather than what actually can be recycled,” Piper says.Īs such, the effect of recycling can be “limited by the fact that many materials are degraded through recycling, so there are diminishing returns,” agrees Finn Arne Jørgenson, professor of environmental history at the University of Stavanger, and author of Recycling, adding that “the mental effect can be more significant than the material one.” Plans are thought to include more consistent collections, as well as a labyrinthine seven recycling bins being introduced, at a cost of half a billion pounds annually until 2030. This echoes the Government’s new edict, with the hope being that this will reduce the rather staggering 84 per cent of households currently committing recycling crimes. The goal now is for “people to recycle less, better,” says James Piper, author of The Rubbish Book. (Not to mention the domestic fallout over whether the strawberry punnet film lid or milk cartons were green bin-worthy in the first place.) And, worse still, this ends up causing more damage than throwing them out in the first place, as they contaminate the correctly recycled items alongside them. These mistakes currently lead to a fifth of wrongly recycled items being sent to landfill. Yet UK households are apparently so bewildered by green guidelines that ministers are overhauling the system, with new proposals set to put an end to “wishcycling” (a term used to denote the many things people mistakenly believe can be recycled, but can’t). It’s simple stuff, in theory: separate your waste from your recyclables, dump the latter in the appropriate bin and say no more about it.

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