Irritating phrases

Recycling 

Lets get honest. You do not recycle anything unless you have a glass smelting foundry tucked away under the stairs. You separate waste.

Recycling is done in factories with lots f high tech stuff where they take separated waste and process it into a finished material. Which BTW will always be a lower quality than the original, finished material.

The majority of "recyclable" materials aren't even as recyclable as advertised, anyway. Only a small percentage of it is actually used for anything

It would seem, in our Council District area, "recycled" is often actually spelt "incinerated" (aka, rather grandly: ...ERF - "Energy Recovery Facility"!).

It would seem, in our Council District area, "recycled" is often actually spelt "incinerated" (aka, rather grandly: ...ERF - "Energy Recovery Facility"!).

Yeah, same! I think the advice is to squash it all together until it's at least a tennis ball sized bit before putting into the recycling bin. All the small bits in the middle wrapped in a bigger bit after it's been washed and refused a few times first.

Yes, I do that too.

In our area if pieces of tin foil are small, such as one or two pieces of foil wrapping from chocolates, the recycling process will not catch them so they slip through into the general rubbish.

I squish all my pieces of foil into one bundle for the fortnightly recycling collection.

Metals are the only thing that is infinitely recyclable. And the irony is tin foil is often thrown out instead!