How hard is it to understand general waste and recycling?

I don't have bins because my dog gets into them so I use the bags for life for recycling and smaller bin liners for general waste.

Every single time my mum comes to put rubbish away she will throw general into recycling and I have to keep telling her.

Now when I was a work we had 3 bins general recycling and food waste.
Yet some person would still get them mixed up.

We even had a presentation to make it clear!

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

I understand putting what is supposed to be in the recycling bin into the general one but not really the other way around.

Mellowgirl · 31-35, F

@CrazyMusicLover honestly I don't get it. I even have a poster on my fridge which is next to the bin area

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@Mellowgirl Because you're in a civilized country where you know that dustmen take it seriously and you won't see them simply spilling everything together. 😅
We have some system here but it's pretty chaotic and then if you by any chance see that, you just wonder why did you bother. 😆

Mellowgirl · 31-35, F

@CrazyMusicLover 😞

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@Mellowgirl Do you put plastics and metals together? Here in some places they go together, in other they have separate bins. If you have plastic and paper glued together, do you separate them?

Mellowgirl · 31-35, F

@CrazyMusicLover this is the poster on my fridge

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@Mellowgirl Oh, I hoped for the symbols. I would need those to be sure.

Mellowgirl · 31-35, F

@CrazyMusicLover dunno what any of that means. But I guess every country uses their own system.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@Mellowgirl These should be on most products. I thought they were standardized at least within Europe. That still doesn't solve the problem where you should put milk/juice boxes (C/PAP 84) because this varies city by city here. You simply need to check and this is one thing that I'd simply throw into general garbage because at least here I can't go wrong with that.

Mellowgirl · 31-35, F

@CrazyMusicLover yea that's too complicated for me. I prefer this. I'm doing my bit. Those that train in the recycling department can place the items in the respective bins. Might sound ignorant but clearly it's a big ask to get people to do the basics