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IF YOU’RE doing major building work, you’ll need a skip, but it’s easy for recyclables to get chucked in with the rubbish. Tradespeople won’t always separate recyclables from non-recyclables, so if you want to make your build more environmentally friendly, you’ll need to police the skip (and any rubbish bags) and extract anything that should be in the recycling bin.

Local authority tips (and doorstep collections) take all sorts of things