Handsomedan:

 

I'm stunned that they are making this whole exercise harder for the average household. With the issues we have with plastics and recyclable materials going into landfill, they have just decided that the economic benefits of reducing the number of things you can recycle are better than the environmental impact of people choosing to put all recyclables and a few things that aren't recyclable into the recycling bins. 

 

Basically, if you make it harder to recycle, people will simply stop recycling altogether. They won't work harder to sort their items. 

 

problem is there is no where that they can send the items so they have to go to landfill, can't ship them off to China any more.

Government should be helping councils come up with solutions, even if it was a couple of plants per island to recycle/use the items.