All the plastic you can and cannot recycle
Most people are trying their best to recycle plastic - but the many different ways in which recycling is collected by different councils has left people confused.
What can be recycled and what can't? We are putting more plastic in the recycling than ever before - but pictures of sea life tangled in all manner of waste plastic mean the pressure is on to do more.
The government is now considering changing the way plastic is recycled in England. This is why.
Each council collects their plastic recycling differently. BBC analysis shows there are 39 different sets of rules for what can be put in... read more
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