Much as I want everyone to do more recycling the authorities do not make it easy. Every council seems to have a different system and they don't make it clear exactly what can go in the green bin (or whatever colour they use). The variety of plastics in use complicates matters. I know there are issues with black plastic as it is harder to sort, but it seems that is being phased out. Ideally everyone should try to reduce how much plastic they use, but we know most won't bother.
A washing up bowl is not exactly contamination anyway. That can easily be ejected. I bet other people leave food and other waste in the recycling bin that causes much worse problems.
Sigh...
I think they use the term "Contamination" as blanket term for rejecting a collection. I don't think it's meant in the literal sense.
Yeah, I know, but words have impact and he could have fixed the issue by removing it himself. There must be all sorts of problems with wrong stuff messing up the processes. I would be interested to see how my recycling waste gets processed. I wonder how much is manual.
Oh god! Are you having a laugh? Remove it himself? They don't do that mate. They even refuse to take your bin if the lid is not 100% closed. The brown bin must only have 'Good' garden waste which is Grass and flowers. Any Twigs you have to hide and leaves they dislike. Put any soil in and that's a massive "No no"
Changing the subject: I know you want to avoid Twitter but can you (Via DM et al) enlighten me on the question I've asked?)
Well some people do actually give a shit about their jobs and the people they serve. Not everyone is a 'jobsworth', although their bosses may try to force them to be.