Do Milk Cartons count as material you can recycle (I.e, put in the green bin?)?

Question

Do Milk Cartons count as material you can recycle (I.e, put in the green bin?)?

Answer 1

You can't recycle Tetra-paks because they have a wax inner. That company (which makes obscene profits) should be forced to recycle them.

Answer 2

plastic you can recycle, tetra packs you cant, tetra is the cardboard ones that when you open them thay go all over you.

Answer 3

These are normally 'tetra-paks' which are a mix of paper, cardboard and foil, they need specialist recycling and can't normally be put in with cardboard for kerb-side collection.  If you contact your local council you should find somewhere which will take them.  I'm lucky, I collect mine and take them once a month to a site less than a mile away. If enough people make noises more will be recycled.  I used to avoid buying smoothies etc in tetra-paks until I found a place they could be recycled, there are alternatives.

Answer 4

They are quite acceptable with my local council but I don't think any two councils are the same.

Answer 5

Hardly any local councils recycle Tetra-pak cartons (there is a place you can post them to, but you have to pay for the service, which seems a bit weird - why would anyone want to do that?) but if you mean plastic milk bottles, these can go in the green bin. Squash 'em down and you get more in.

Answer 6

The plastic jugs can be recycled but make sure your recycling center takes them - some cans and bottles places don't.

The paper ones are recyclable but the mixed content (plastic interior coating) makes it more difficult. Check with your specific recycling center as some may sort them out as trash.

Answer 7

Yes they can be recycled, but they're a specialist product because of the variety of materials involved, so can't usually be put in your recycling bin unless you have been instructed that it's permissible. We have a recycling facility for them at our local Morrisson's supermarket (UK), I think others are providing the same, you'll have to search to find out.

Answer 8

Yes, they do count.  I always put mine in the "green bin."

Answer 9

i think you can....

check with your local council :P