Blue Box Bloopers

So have you ever read page 11 of the City of London Recycling Calendar. I have. Did you know that you are not allowed to put bakery/food trays and clamshell containers in your recycling. In fact one morning a couple of months ago, Etienne just happened to be heading off to work when our recycling was picked up. The worker actually stopped him and said basically we can put in cans, plastic water bottles and regular plastic containers, for example the kinds used for sour cream and margarine. That is it. Whomever the city is using for recycling doesn't have the capacity to take the other items, even though they are marked with the right numbers if you go the City website. Sheesh!

As a parent of a child who eats lots of fruit and I a lot of vegis these days, this is a royal pain in the butt. Most fruit is sold in these containers, along with salad greens, tomatoes, etc. So now, even though I am trying to be a good parent and feed my child and my family healthy food, I can't recycle the containers these foods come in, therefore filling up our landfills quicker - you see where I am going with this.

Every now and then I try again just to see if the rules have changed and there my clamshell containers sit. Unloved and sitting alone in the blue box still. Just like this morning. So I would like to suggest, before the city develop a green bin program (which I think is a great idea - I have been composting since we bought our house), they sort out these recycling issues! Just a thought . . .