How to effectively recycle

Today's Sunday Times talks about the dumping of waste intended for recycling in landfill. This is caused by recycling getting jumbled together at the collection stage which leads to some being contaminated or poorly sorted before heading to the processing firms, who are then forced to dump the whole load. The article makes clear that council schemes which force an element of sorting at the point of collection (as Tandridge's does), while more onerous for the householder and for the collectors is actually much more successful at meeting its goals.