Behodar:

 

Geektastic: That you can’t recycle lids for some reason.

 

At least you're aware. The local council used to say "Check the lids; if they have the 1 to 7 symbols on them, they can be recycled too!" (courtesy of the Wayback Machine), but then at some point they changed the rules to "no lids".

 

I say "at some point" because this was done through stealth; the rules on the website were updated but as far as I'm aware the rule change wasn't otherwise publicised. A short while later, the council had a grizzle in the newspaper about people not following the rules.

 

Suspiciously enough, my local council (Hamilton) doesn't have an opinion about lids in the recycling. They do ask that you take lids off glass containers in their separate recycle bin and put them with the mixed paper/plastic/metal recycling.

Possibly its because they don't use the same automated machinery as other councils. Maybe they pay real people to do the picking. Maybe they use a better automatic machine. Or maybe it all gets chucked in the landfill while we're not looking...