Rigid Plastic v's Soft Plastic

If you can crumple the item up in your hand and its clean then it goes in the recycling bin V's Soft plastics i.e. those that you can stretch out of shape easily go in your General Waste Bin. 

Clean and Dry - Any recycling that has contained food should be clean and dry to avoid contaminating the rest of the bin contents.

How Clean? - If you would happily throw the contents of your recycling bin out on your floor then that is good enough. 

Contaminents - If food or other contaminents are embedded in the materials then it can't be recycled and must go into the general waste bin.