Just When You Thought You Had Recycling All Sewn Up,

somebody changes the rules, Margaret Tasker, from Coventry, West Midlands, had for as far back as recycling began washed her empty ice cream containers and put them in the plastic recycle bin, but in a strange move the local council recycling collectors decided it was the wrong shape, refusing to empty her bin, Mrs Tasker, a retired accountant, said: 'I was absolutely flabbergasted, I'm always very careful with my recycling, and only ever put items in that say they can be recycled,'

after she complained the council backtracked - and claimed that they had made a mistake and square ice-cream tubs were now accepted for recycling, also in another forward thinking move announced they would retrain all of their staff to teach them which objects can be recycled a spokesperson for Coventry City Council said: 'We are in the process of expanding the range of things people can put in their blue-lidded bins for recycling, previously, a plastic ice cream tub would not have been suitable for recycling, however, it is now, and the bin should have been emptied,' if it was not suitable before to put the ice cream container in why was it picked up without any problems before?