\n While you might think you know exactly where each item goes, it is easy to become complacent and start mixing rubbish.\n<\/p>\n
\n You need to be careful when putting rubbish in the correct bins, as certain items will cause your bin to be refused.\n<\/p>\n
\n A binman has shared one thing that can mean your recycling does not get collected.\n<\/p>\n
What can you not put in a recycling bin?<\/p>\n
\n The No. 1 Binman, Ashley, shares lots of tips and tricks on his TikTok account to help people with their waste.\n<\/p>\n
\n He recently shared a video telling people about a common mistake many make that means their recycling gets refused.\n<\/p>\n
\n Many people will throw plastic containers into the recycling without clearing them out, and if they still have food in them, binmen will not collect the rubbish.\n<\/p>\n
\n The caption said: “How many times have I told you.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If the plastic containers still have food in them, the binmen won\u2019t take your recycling bin.”\n<\/p>\n
\n While many people might not know about this rule, others already knew to do this, with one person in the TikTok comments saying: “People are just lazy, hardly takes any time to wash\/clean things out.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Another person said: “I have communal recycle bins and I wash all my things before putting them in the bin but others don\u2019t.”\n<\/p>\n
\n If the binmen refuse to empty your bin, they will leave a tag or sticker on it explaining why it has not been emptied.\n<\/p>\n
Other things that you cannot recycle<\/p>\n
\n Ashley has also shared other videos talking about things you cannot put in your recycling bin.\n<\/p>\n
\n Things like polystyrene that is often used to protect fragile items during deliveries is also something that cannot be put in the recycling.\n<\/p>\n
\n If a binman sees any polystyrene in your recycling bin, they will refuse to take it.\n<\/p>\n
\n He has also posted a video about pizza boxes, as if they are too greasy or have leftovers in them, they cannot be recycled.\n<\/p>\n
\n Many plastic films and packaging also cannot be recycled, so it is always worth checking the labels on the containers.\n<\/p>\n
\n Did you know that plastic containers had to be cleaned before they are put in the recycling? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While you might think you know exactly where each item goes, it is easy to become complacent and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736093","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=736093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}