News — plastic chopping board recycling

In most parts of the UK, standard household plastic chopping boards cannot be recycled in your kerbside bin. Around 8 to 9 out of 10 local councils will tell you to put damaged plastic cutting boards in the general waste, because the hard mixed plastics, food stains and knife grooves make them unsuitable for normal recycling streams. Why most plastic chopping boards can’t be recycled in the UK Plastic kitchen chopping boards are usually made from HDPE or polypropylene. On paper, those plastics can be recycled. In reality, UK recycling centres are set up for clean, simple shapes like bottles...