Sitting here with a streaming cold. Do I put the used tissues in the recycling bin with other waste paper or are they too toxic and need to go in the black bag for landfill?

Wife and daughter think recycling is a no-no. What’s the STW consensus?

Rich.

Compost/food bin.

We put them in with the compost

Our council told us to compost them too.

Some places will take them in compost/food waste, others class them as non-recyclable. Ask your local authority.

Depends on your council – if it’s Hants then they recycle sod all of what they are actually supposed to because “we do not either have a partner for it or it costs us too much money”
So no aluminium, foil, tetra pak, etc.
All stuff designed to be recycled.
Yet they’ll happily waste money on missed collections, tags on the bins because “the wrong item” was in there despite them stating they are not allowed to go through the bins to check… so how did they know…
One of the highest council taxes in the UK and one of the worst collection frequencies and recycling rates.

Reduce> reuse >recycle. The responsible lurgy victim avoids the recycling tissue issue by blowing snot rockets out the bedroom window. Remember to check the window is actually open