Update July 2021: Sainsbury's and Coop have now anounced that they will be taking most types of flexible plastic at their in-store recycling boxes. This is what Sainsbury's said can now be recycled: "The front of store recycling points will make it easier than ever for customers to make more sustainable choices by offering a trustworthy recycling system where they can correctly dispose of flexible plastic packaging. This includes packaging such as crisp packets, food pouches, salad bags and biscuit and cake wrappers which 83% of UK local authorities currently don’t accept for recycling"

When disposing of plastic packaging in England, the following advice should be applied.

- Water bottles should be squashed down with the lid on and put in your recycling bin at home.

- Milk cartons should be squashed down with the lid on and put in your recycling bin at home.

- Soft plastic food bags must be taken to supermarket collection points in order to be recycled.

- Butter / margarine tubs should be put in your recycling bin at home.

- Foam takeaway boxes cannot be recycled.

- Cleaning spray containers should be separated so that the nozzle and tube is put in the bin and the container in your recycling.

- Squeezie lotion tubes can be recycled at home.

- Olive oil bottles should be cleaned and crushed with the lid on before being recycled.

- Cake boxes with film windows should be separated so that the film window is disposed of in the normal bin and the cardboard is recycled.

- Cling film cannot be recycled.

- Satsuma netting must never be recycled as it can clog up the machinery at recycling plants.

- Ready meal packaging should be separated so that the container and cardboard is recycled and the film lid goes in the bin.

- Crisp packets cannot be recycled.

- Crinkly salad bags cannot be recycled.

- Yoghurt pots should be recycled at home.

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