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    Plastic recycling - check your compost sacks

    While filling pots of compost for sowing peas I noticed this symbol on the sack of compost:

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    I had absolutely no idea that you could recycle compost sacks with carrier bags at supermarkets - our Tesco definitely takes everything with this symbol on it. Check your compost sacks, grow bags etc for this before throwing them away - recycling these will save a huge amount of plastic from going into landfill.
    A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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    Gosh! I have never seen that on mine. I will check though. Bear in mind that you'll probably need to take it to a specific recycling point.

    All mine to date have gone on to second careers as weed-proof membrane under paths, or as rubbish sacks

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    • #3
      Always better to reuse than recycle anyway, but if like me you have more than you can reuse, this is good news. Most large supermarkets have a bag recycling point now.
      A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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      • #4
        There's actually quite a lot that you can take to those recycling points. Things like bread bags, potato bags and some vegetable bags, the stretchy plastic around multi packs of cans, bags that magazines are delivered in, some courier bags,...

        Basically anything made of ldpe - the stretchy plastic that deforms. I've reduced my waste quite a lot since I discovered this a few months ago.

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        • #5
          Good shout, Penellype. Mine become either weed cover or rubbish sacks, but presumably (please god) at some point I'll stop digging up scrap on the plot and I'll make sure they're recycled instead. Thanks!

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