Like many households we have a separate glass container collection bin that is collected
fortnightly. So bottles and jars go in sometimes after a quick rinse if
they contain a mucky residue.
Happened to notice that a jar from Lidl which contained Frankfurters has
the legend and symbol
“Do not recycle” on the label. Anyone know why? What is special about the
jar.
GH
Like many households we have a separate glass container collection bin that is collected
fortnightly. So bottles and jars go in sometimes after a quick rinse if
they contain a mucky residue.
Happened to notice that a jar from Lidl which contained Frankfurters has
the legend and symbol
“Do not recycle” on the label. Anyone know why? What is special about the
jar.
Like many households we have a separate glass container collection bin that is collected
fortnightly. So bottles and jars go in sometimes after a quick rinse if
they contain a mucky residue.
Happened to notice that a jar from Lidl which contained Frankfurters has
the legend and symbol
“Do not recycle” on the label. Anyone know why? What is special about the
jar.
GH
Like many households we have a separate glass container collection bin that is collected
fortnightly. So bottles and jars go in sometimes after a quick rinse if
they contain a mucky residue.
Happened to notice that a jar from Lidl which contained Frankfurters has
the legend and symbol
“Do not recycle” on the label. Anyone know why? What is special about the
jar.
Our LA uses large woven plastic bags for a range of materials, including
a blue one for cardboard.
Over the years our bag started to fall apart due to hard use - so we
asked for, & received, a replacement.
Then it was a question of "What do we do with the old one?"
The obvious answer was to recycle it.
We put it into the appropriate container.
The bin men carefully removed it from the container, and returned it to
us...
Rinse and repeat.
It is apparently impossible to recycle a recycling container.
Like many households we have a separate glass container collection bin that is collected
fortnightly. So bottles and jars go in sometimes after a quick rinse if
they contain a mucky residue.
Happened to notice that a jar from Lidl which contained Frankfurters has
the legend and symbol
“Do not recycle” on the label. Anyone know why? What is special about the
jar.
On 07/04/2025 19:19, Sam Plusnet wrote:
Our LA uses large woven plastic bags for a range of materials,
including a blue one for cardboard.
Over the years our bag started to fall apart due to hard use - so we
asked for, & received, a replacement.
Then it was a question of "What do we do with the old one?"
The obvious answer was to recycle it.
We put it into the appropriate container.
The bin men carefully removed it from the container, and returned it
to us...
Rinse and repeat.
It is apparently impossible to recycle a recycling container.
LOL
It is so much easier in our area (East Yorkshire) because *all*
recycling (glass, hard plastic, paper/cardboard, tin cans) goes in a
single (blue) bin and does not have to be kept separate inside the house
and then put into separate bins/bags for roadsider collection.
The only thing that is kept separate is food waste and garden rubbish
which both go in a brown bin. That works in our favour because the food
waste *had* to be collected every fortnight, and now *has* to be
collected every week under a new Government scheme, so the side effect
of that is that we get weekly collections of garden waste all year
round. And we got them all through Covid.
Marland <gemehabal@btinternet.co.uk> wrote:
Like many households we have a separate glass container collection bin that >> is collected
fortnightly. So bottles and jars go in sometimes after a quick rinse if
they contain a mucky residue.
Happened to notice that a jar from Lidl which contained Frankfurters has
the legend and symbol
Do not recycle on the label. Anyone know why? What is special about the >> jar.
GH
Might have been referring to the contents
On 9 Apr 2025 at 18:12:45 BST, "SteveW" <steve@walker-family.me.uk> wrote:
Our council will collect the green bin (food waste) every week, but from
June, if we want to carry on putting garden waste in it, we'll have to
pay an extra £50 a year and have a garden waste sticker on the bin.
They tried to introduce this some years ago, but many people decided to
go halves with neighbours or just take it to the tip themselves - with
the result that they got far less money than they expected and they
abandoned the charge.
I shall go back to using my round bin for garden waste and taking it to
the tip when I take other stuff.
We pay extra for garden waste removal here, and I don't think that's unreasonable. Neither do I think the opverall service is bad, notwithstanding what Our Nige may think. We very often don't put any bins out because they are
nowhere near full, so often it's a month between black bin (landfill) or recycling bins going out.
Our council will collect the green bin (food waste) every week, but from June, if we want to carry on putting garden waste in it, we'll have to
pay an extra £50 a year and have a garden waste sticker on the bin.
They tried to introduce this some years ago, but many people decided to
go halves with neighbours or just take it to the tip themselves - with
the result that they got far less money than they expected and they
abandoned the charge.
I shall go back to using my round bin for garden waste and taking it to
the tip when I take other stuff.
On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 08:17:52 -0000 (UTC), Tricky Dicky
<tricky.dicky@sky.com> wrote:
Marland <gemehabal@btinternet.co.uk> wrote:
Like many households we have a separate glass container collection bin that >>> is collected
fortnightly. So bottles and jars go in sometimes after a quick rinse if
they contain a mucky residue.
Happened to notice that a jar from Lidl which contained Frankfurters has >>> the legend and symbol
Do not recycle on the label. Anyone know why? What is special about the
jar.
GH
Might have been referring to the contents
Could it be a translation problem from German? Could they mean 'Do
not reuse'? I think the bottled water says not to refill the bottles.
On 9 Apr 2025 at 18:49:18 BST, Scott wrote:
Could it be a translation problem from German? Could they mean 'Do
not reuse'? I think the bottled water says not to refill the bottles.
They don't seem to be very clued up about UK recycling. I've tried asking them
(Lidl) whether their tea bags are compostable* - no answer yet but plenty of 'we'll get back to you'.
* apparently due https://corporate.lidl.co.uk/media-centre/pressreleases/2023/compostable-tea-bags
but nothing on the box
On 9 Apr 2025 at 18:12:45 BST, "SteveW" <steve@walker-family.me.uk> wrote:
Our council will collect the green bin (food waste) every week, but from
June, if we want to carry on putting garden waste in it, we'll have to
pay an extra £50 a year and have a garden waste sticker on the bin.
They tried to introduce this some years ago, but many people decided to
go halves with neighbours or just take it to the tip themselves - with
the result that they got far less money than they expected and they
abandoned the charge.
I shall go back to using my round bin for garden waste and taking it to
the tip when I take other stuff.
We pay extra for garden waste removal here, and I don't think that's unreasonable. Neither do I think the opverall service is bad, notwithstanding what Our Nige may think. We very often don't put any bins out because they are
nowhere near full, so often it's a month between black bin (landfill) or recycling bins going out.
The only thing that is kept separate is food waste and garden rubbish</snip>
which both go in a brown bin. That works in our favour because the food
waste *had* to be collected every fortnight, and now *has* to be
collected every week under a new Government scheme, so the side effect
of that is that we get weekly collections of garden waste all year
round. And we got them all through Covid.
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