Recycling

Is it me, or does most packaging have a recyclable sticker on it? The latest thing I came across was Batchelor's Pasta 'n' Sauce wrapper. There it is, clear as day: the recyclable sticker. But that's it. What's it made of? How is it recyclable? Where do I go to recycle it?

It seems to me this label is now being cheaply applied to just about anything. Take plastic. A lot of plastic is the type 5 variety, yet I cannot find anywhere that takes this type of plastic. To the best of my knowledge, Essex County Council (along with everyone else in the country) only take types 1 and 2. So if you can't actually recycle something because there's nowhere to take it to (or even post it to, as is the case with tetra-pak cartons) why should it have a recyclable sticker on it?

Personally I think companies should either provide details of how you can recycle their packaging or they don't get to put the recyclable label on it. But in this country, where our government will bend over backwards to accomodate business through lax business controls, that will never happen. And in the meantime, the landfill continues to grow...