A council says putting the wrong waste in recycling bins is costing it about £250,000 a year.
Sarah Atkinson, a waste service manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, says most people are keen to recycle properlyEast Riding of Yorkshire Council said rejected loads of recycling – which contain too many non-recyclable items – cost double the amount to process.
Sarah Atkinson, a waste services manager, said: "There's a thought that 'if I put it in the blue bin, perhaps they'll be able to sort it out at the end'." Kerbside recycling waste is taken from the East Riding to a waste transfer station in Hull. From there, it is transported to a recycling facility in Hartlepool.The council no longer sends waste to landfill, so if a load cannot be recycled, it is sent for "energy recovery" – the process of converting waste into heat, electricity or fuel – and "none of it gets recycled".
"It's a real loss for the hard work that's been done. It's also the environmental cost of it going to the wrong place."
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