Magazine wrapper

We have lots of recycling receptacles, including garden waste, food waste and plastic. I used to know exactly where to place the old wrapper - in the plastic. Not so sure now as food goes to create energy I believe and garden water gets composted. Both ask for no additional matter that doesn't constitute food or garden 😯.

I will have to contact our local council to get a response in due course. This club aren't the only one to change the wrappers this way.

Bakers,food waste is place in large tanks and the methane gas is captured which in turn is used as fuel to drive turbines which in ruen generate electricity. When composted down the food waste is then removed and farmers use it on the land.

Hope this helps.

Before someone tells me differently this information comes from my local council. Please address any disagreements to Bridgend County Borough Council.

I noticed in the magazine it says the wrapper is recyclable but not how.

I think it's regarded as a bio-degradable plastic which will decompose in the right circumstances. The environment would be better saved using the starch based wrapper as described by the OP.

'Why not just subscribe to the on-line edition. No wrapper of any sort, no paper, no printing ink just a lot of  electrons'

Nice idea, but my eyes are a bit on the ancient side, and prefer not to be subjected to a long period of bombardment by electrons if possible.

Hi everyone, Thanks for your feedback, which I have forwarded to the magazine team. 

The current material of the magazine wrapper is 100% recyclable and, as a responsible organisation, we monitor the scientific research and studies available to make sure we continue to work responsibly and with care for the environment

Its usually not the fact that something is recyclable but whether the local authority can cope with recycling it. We have so many different systems in this country that the opportunity for recycling film wraps could be quite limited. Better that it was made of something that can be composted like film made of potato starch. I use potato starch bags in my waste food caddy and if they are left more than a week they start to break down!

David

Does this mean I can put it in the compost bin or does it need to go elsewhere. Like others we are members of both clubs, and the C&CC one makes it quite clear on the wrapper what to do with it. Possibly this is where this club is falling down.