Comedian Dave Spikey is spearheading a campaign to get people to take more care over what they put into their recycling bins.
The award-winning comic from Bolton, who co-wrote Phoenix Nights with Peter Kay, wants people to learn how to ‘recycle right’.
People across the region are putting unrecyclable plastic bags, yoghurt pots and food trays in with the rubbish to be recycled.
Recycling bosses say confusion exists because, while some packet may say ‘recyclable’, there might be no facilities to recycle them in Greater Manchester.
And Spikey says it is important to only put items into recycling bins that can be recycled in the region.
He said: “It’s a tiny bit like the sign on A6 near me that says ‘New Road Layout, Use Both Lanes’, which when I tried to do it really alloyed the other drivers.
“There was also the cook-in-the-bag rice that advised me to ‘stand in boiling water for ten minutes’. I gave up after 12 seconds.
“What I’m saying is this: Just because it says ‘recyclable’ don’t take it literally because it’s not necessarily always the case here in Greater Manchester.”
The campaign is being launched by Recycle for Greater Manchester next Monday at the opening of a new Materials Recovery Facility in Sharston, Wythenshawe.
Recycle for Greater Manchester is a partnership between the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority and Viridor Laing (Greater Manchester) Limited.
An information pack featuring the comedian will soon drop through the letterboxes of Greater Manchester residents.
It will tell them some of the common items that are often mistakenly put into recycling bins. For more information about recycling visit recycleforgreatermanchester.com .
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I'll write to David Cameraon and ask him to scrap the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority along with all those other busybody groups which cost us all a fortune.
Then they won't have to worry about any confusion, just how to get a proper job.
Here in the Soviet Republic of Bolton, we used to have an ideal scheme for waste paper. The Bolton hospice, had an excellent scheme called "Paper Chase". They gave us all sacks, and collected EVERY WEEK, their van coming on the same day as the dustbin lorry, as regular as clockwork. It cost the Bolton authority nothing, and the charity handled all the waste paper and made money out of it. But that would not do for the socialists of Bolton and their colllaborators so-called Tories. So the system was scrapped and now we have an expensive, inefficient and unreliable local authority waste-paper collection, but only ONCE A FORTNIGHT. And it costs us all hundreds of thousands instead of costing nothing and acually making money for the Hospice. The Bolton Tories have not heard of the big society and did not oppose this. The Bolton Tories believe in the tiny society.
You can't get better than Peter Kay, he's been recycling jokes for years...
Come and get your black bin bags
perhaps its time to open a new recycling facility that can recycle the 'unrecyclable' plastic bags, yoghurt pots and food trays that people are throwing in their recycle bin.
whats the point of recycling some plastics and throwing other recyclable waste into landfill because there is no facilty in greater manchester to sort it, or its time for the government to step in and add an eco tax to manufactuers using these 'unrecyclable' plastics in their packaging to encourage them to use the stuff that we can recycle.