[Closed] Recycling stuff, who does?

could this not trigger them to think 'hey we get enough of this stuff to make recycling it viable'.

Nope. The minimum wage blokes hand sifting recyclables in the centre are unlikely to have any input on the overall council recycling strategy or contracts with upstream users of the streams.

This boring but sensible video from my local council covers some good stuff:

I tend to recycle most things, but I do fail at it when it gets inconvenient to do so.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, goes out of her way to recycle everything. I'm still not convinced that carrying plastic bottles all around France and then back to the UK to be recycled was the most effective...

You are lowering the quality of the recycling streams they produce thus making them worth less. Subsequently they need more staff to sort the incoming materials, making it cost more.

Hence you'll get a council complaining that recycling is not economically viable and you'll make them less likely to offer further recycling.

More staff equals less unemploymnet, you just needto find alternative places to sell the recycled stuff.

The tax on landfill is increasing every year, and the space to use for landfill is deminishing, so recycling is the way forward for the environmmnet.

The only regular things we don't recycling is plastic wrapping / film. Bristol is pretty good for collections and the plastic bottles and packaging just gets done taken to the supermarket recycling point when we go shopping.
Our wheely bin is rarely more than 1/4 full when it is collected every 2 weeks. Some peoples wheely bins are always overflowing with recyclable stuff, I just don't get why they can't do it.

Of course avoiding packaging in the first place is even better than recycling.