Recycling & Waste Disposal - arrgh!

So spent this evening taking out recyclables from the black bin, cleaned, dried, & flattened them for the recycling bin. Housemates for ya (though at least they don't put soiled pizza boxes into recycling).

I've made a pdf on how to split waste accordingly into general, compost, & recycling for them especially (we never had any info provided here from the landlord). Looking at recycling info online, it didn't take long to realise the amount of ambiguity there is on the consensus of what's defined as recyclable and what isn't (thanks to privatisation of recycling and waste disposal I spose, we've diff companies with conflicting info on what goes into what - Why can't they all be the same?) It's no wonder we don't dispose of waste properly here, along with the lackadaisical attitude towards recycling. Maybe I'm just an uptight bint.

Another thing is what can't be put into your bin goes to your recycling centre (eg. polystrene). Forget about it if you don't have a car as in most cases these are inaccessible, being out in the countryside. And then some centres don't accept certain items as well so there's that, as well as alot of them only open when people are working and closed on the weekend & lunch time during the weekday.

The info for the recycling company we use has shoddy info and emailing them, they haven't gotten to me when I emailed on Monday. Same with county council, along with conflicting info on the Repak website, and very very vague info from recyclinglistireland.ie. They give vague descriptions (eg. saying rigid plastics....not all companies accept 5 PP plastic AFAIK...). Is it 1(PET), 2(HDPE) & 5(PP) that are recyclable, or is it 1, 2, & 4(LDPE)? I'm tempted to just say 1, 2, 4, & 5 are recyclable plastics, but is it?
The new recycling list website just simply says you can recycle paper & cardboard, cans & rigid plastics along with pictures. What about composite packaging? A pringles tube has a plastic lid, cardboard tube and a metal bottom, and envelopes with the plastic film window, shouldn't all those things be separated at the household level?

So it's gas that the most helpful website for this is a UK one, recyclenow.com, but they have some diff recycling rules to ones here so can't take it all for gold.

Other things I didn't realise until recently;
- The green dot doesn't necessarily mean that something is recyclable
- Blue glass can go into green glass recycling
- Pink & red glass isn't recyclable
etc.

So what do ye make of this rant?