....the reality is probably minimum-wage workers at a conveyor belt pulling the pieces with obvious tape on them and chucking them in the "to incinerator" skip.
My fear is that this is the case. Pre
THE PLAGUE I started getting into conversation with my local authority. They were insistent that only plastic bottles could go in the recycling, despite their website saying PET1 could be recycled and was the main volume of bottles. About 80% of my PET1 plastic is the trays the supermerkats put food in.
My question was answered along the lines of their technology can recognise bottles but not other shaped plastics... I was going to pursue this, bearing in mind PET1 can be identified (according to internet) by machines with lasers and other such sensors, but lockdown#1 hit us and so I thought that their time was better needed than me asking silly questions.
So therefore 80% of my recyclable PET1 is no doubt just going to landfill.