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Most councils have a pledge to provide facilities for 2 recyclables by 2010 - how is your council doing?

To help with the process: Wash out your cans & plastic bottles, squash your bottles and cans (reduces the number of Lorries required to transport them).

Plastics
There are about 50 different types of plastic. The main types include (click on the article below for more information):

• HDPE - Opaque bottles
• PVC - Transparent bottles, with a seam running across the base
• PET - Transparent bottles, with a hard moulded spot in the centre of the base
• If your home recycling bin doesn?t take plastic bottles, then deposit them at your local recycling bank.
• Clean bottles before recycling them.
• Buy plastic bottles in bulk whenever possible to reduce packaging waste.
• Carriers can be reused next time you're at the shops, or deposit used ones at collection points provided by some supermarkets.

Source: http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/plastic.html

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