https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/167596

While it is far from perfect (it will take several years to accomplish, but the petition does call for a 5 years grace period) I feel it's somewhat strange to have the black bin reduced in size yet the amount of items you can't recycle be so high. Other items can be recycled just not in your standard green bag. Sure, you can throw away any type of plastic (Hovis bread bags, for example) and make those employed to do so pick them out of the general recycle waste but how much time and money is wasted creating that job? Other councils seem to put the strain on the individual and have 5 different bin bags/boxes for the homeowner to try and work out.

Wouldn't it be easier if as much packaging as possible was recyclable?