The six most common recycling mistakes Australian households make

When it comes to recycling, it seems no to choose the right trash can.
But new research shows that too many Australian families are trying to figure out what\'s wrong.
After China\'s main waste import \"bank\", Australian families were urged to improve their recycling technology, a report from Planet Ark waste war and recycling restart.
The report, which surveyed 180 committees from across the country, reveals six of the most common mistakes made by Australian families.
\"These errors lead to problems with the classification facility and lead to more recyclable waste in Australia being landfill,\" the report stressed . \".
Recycling soft plastic in binscouncil reveals that the problem they are experiencing most is the handling of soft plastic in the home, including plastic bags, bread packaging, and even plastic film in tissue boxes into recycling. Forty-
The committee said they found soft plastic in their local recycling bins-contaminated the sorter and caused serious headaches.
The homeowner is the garbage bin that encourages the drop of items when RedCycle and Woolworths supermarket.
You can recycle soft plastic such as bread bags, cookies and candy bags, frozen food/Rice/pasta bags, and in Coles, plastic bags and even old reusable bags are thrown into the REDcycle collection box in the supermarket.
Bag Recycling
The Commission says they often face the problem of people putting recycled items in plastic bags before they are processed.
Earlier this year, Kath McLaughlin, Sydney council waste strategy manager, told Yahoo7 News that the biggest mistake the homeowner made was to put all recyclable items in the yellow bin before
\"When it comes to things you can recycle, plastic, glass or metal containers designed to be used at once can usually be recycled, and generally you just have to make sure it\'s relatively dry and empty. \"She said.
\"What\'s confusing is that people separate all the waste from recycling, clean it, then put it in a big plastic bag, tie it up and put it in recycling.
She said there was a manual sorter, but if they couldn\'t see what was in the plastic bag, they wouldn\'t touch the plastic bag, so all the recyclable items would be landfill.
More than the council said they found that food waste and organic matter were placed in the recycling bin, reducing the quality of paper in the mixing system.
Homeowners are encouraged to follow instructions from the local council on organic collections of food/garden. Non-
The Commission says they often find unrecyclable plastics
Recyclable plastics, such as plastic bags in recycling bins.
\"When the streets of pollution are recycled, No.
Put recyclable items such as plastic bags into the recycle bin.
\"It will clog the recycling machine, reduce the value of recycled materials, increase the cost of landfill and increase the cost of recycling,\" the report said . \".
15% of the board of inquiry said they found objects made of polystyrene, such as disposable tableware, smoke detector shells and CD boxes.
It is like a piece of paper in the classification process, which will bring serious problems to the recycling process.
While clothing looks like recyclable items for some, the fabric is also plagued by sorting machines-a problem they have experienced, according to Parliament.
In terms of recycling, choosing the right trash can usually looks like no.
But there\'s a good chance you\'re doing it wrong.
\"While most Australians believe their roadside recycling is indeed being recycled, almost half of us don\'t know what\'s going to happen, and a large percentage of us think it\'s mostly landfill sites, the report says.
Items that can be recycled in newspapers and magazines-staple food can be recycled greasy fast food packaging/food waste-make a judgment if there is a little grease on your pizza box or KFC box, it may still be recycled, but it will not be recycled if it is still full of food scraps.
Advertising materials-remove plastic packaging phone book-fine to repack cartons-remove and discard the housing-even those with clear plastic windows can repack aluminum cans and steel cans/cans to empty the glass bottles and jars, wash the juice and milk boxes and bottles, rinse with the lid and remove items that cannot be recycled soft plastic-items such as plastic bags, bread packaging and even tissue boxes can pollute the processing process, disrupting mechanical clothing, fabrics, textiles-will pollute the processing process and interfere with the mechanical equipment-pollution recovery process and blockage of mechanical batteries-rechargeable and non-rechargeable
In anALDI store near you, rechargeable AA, AAA, C, D or 9 v batteries or learn about the next e-waste day is.
Polystyrene-items such as meat trays and foam packaging should be placed in junk packaging tissue-although they look recyclable, they may pollute the craft light balls, mirrors, and window glass trash bins (red lid)
Pottery, wine glasses and Pyrex trash cans (red lid)