Residents with up to 10 bins per household explain how they cope with the push for more recycling.
Mark Underdown, from Blaina, recently moved from England and says Wales' recycling means he no longer has to use his black bin at all
But with that comes up to 10 bins per household, with Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Neath Port Talbot among those with the most waste to sort in the UK. She said while a trolley was provided to help stack the containers, “you can’t get replacements anymore and they break quite a lot in the wind”.“I couldn’t drag all that through the house myself, our kitchen is on the second level," she said.
She added: “A lot of people don’t wash and sort . It depends if people can be bothered or not.”“It’s 10 o’clock now and the dustbin men are still not here, it’s awful. They should come a lot earlier," she added.“I’m lucky because this is something I’m in the middle of doing anyway, but a lot of others have them stuck outside their front doors,” he said.Mark Underdown, 42, moved to Blaina about three months ago from Camberley, Surrey, where “they do it completely differently”.
Dr Tommaso Regianni, a senior lecturer at Cardiff University’s business school, who has conducted research in behavioural economics, explained that while recycling “might seem free”, there were actually many associated costs. Blaenau Gwent council said: “Separating recyclables at the kerbside means lower levels of contamination and as a result the materials are worth more at the other end.
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