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| Sherbs |
Milk Bottle TopsFollowing her retirement my mum has gone for recycling her household waste in a big way with a variety of bags and bins in the kitchen.However, she has a pile of milk bottle tops and some foil dish type things of the sort that you can buy quiche in, or pies, and she doesn't know how to recycle them. Her council doesn't include them in their list of 'what to recycle where'. I said I would ask on here if anyone knew the correct way to recycle milk bottle tops and other foil items. |
| Marionb |
We've got a tub in the kitchen in work, for milk bottle tops.... they go towards motorised wheelchairs I think. I have no idea who collects them from the box in the kitchen though.... 
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| VM |
Let us know if you find out who collects them from your work. We currently throw away bottle tops and foil containers because we don't know who recycles them in our area.
Partner's mum collects milk bottle tops and the local scout group collect them from her house - but don't know what happens after that (and it's the other end of the country from us anyway!) |
| Jamanda |
The hospice near us collects the plastic tops off milk bottles. Are you talking about those or old fashioned foil ones. |
| VM |
foil I mean |
| Green Rosie |
When I was in England foil went in with tin cans. |
| Gray |
Dont know if I've been getting this wrong but i save my aluminium foils scrunch them into a ball and pop them in the can bank
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| Green Rosie |
That is what the Sevenoaks recycling info said - they'd accept foil as long as it was clean. |
| sally_in_wales |
does this help?
http://www.alupro.org.uk/word%20docs/summary/Wales.htm the site says foil won't get recycled from can banks unless they specifically say they are for cans and foil |
| Sherbs |
Thanks for the help folks.
I've passed the information on so we'll see what happens. 
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| nats |
Our local Sainsbury's has a foil bank - that's where ours used to go but now the council collects it. |