Stockport residents are already doing much better than the rest of Greater Manchester on recycling – and saving millions of pounds in the process.

But there are areas we can do better still – making sure we properly compost food and recycle juice cartons and aluminium foil.

• Although we in Stockport composted 13,400 tonnes of food, there was 5,500 tonnes that still ended up in black bins, going to landfill.  Remember that you can put all food – meat and veg, cooked and raw – into your green bin that’s emptied weekly.
• Remember that juice cartons go in your blue bin, with the paper and cardboard – a lot of those are still ending up in the black bin.
• Aluminium foil goes in the brown bin, with bottles and cans – that includes cartons from take-aways.  Give them a quick wash first – they don’t have to be perfect, but not with half your takeaway in it, please!  Do the scrunch test with foil – if you can scrunch it and it stays scrunched then it goes in the brown bin.

(This information was in a longer post last week on our recycling achievements, so it may look familiar.  I thought it deserved another outing on its own).

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