Plastic tubes can now be recycled from home as part of regular collections, writes Kat Byrne.<\/p>\n
West Berkshire Council has partnered with Veolia to make the new addition to its kerbside recycling service.<\/p>\n
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Tubes, including all toothpaste tubes both hard and flexible, cosmetic tubes and food tubes can now be recycled.<\/p>\n
West Berkshire Council\u2019s executive member for environment and highways Stuart Gourley (Lib Dem, Newbury Clay Hill) said: \u201cThis is great news, another simple way to recycle more at home, and keep even more items out of the black bin.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlastic tubes are something most of us use every day, so being able to pop them straight into the green recycling bag makes a real difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
To recycle your tunes correctly, firstly squeeze the tube empty, leave the cap on and keep the tube flat (not rolled.)<\/p>\n
Then place it in the same container used to collect your plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, aerosols and cans.<\/p>\n
Veolia West Berkshire general manager David Matthews said: \u201cIn partnership with West Berkshire Council, we\u2019re committed to helping everyone recycle as much as possible and recycling plastic tubes is another positive step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are some exceptions, such as if the tube is less than 40x40mm or if it has contained DIY products, such as mastic, that would be a contaminant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plastic tubes can now be recycled from home as part of regular collections, writes Kat Byrne. West Berkshire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,12991,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-newbury","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}