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Rubbish at recycling? You may be suffering from "green fatigue".

How good are you at recycling? A waste collection company says most of us are getting tired of recycling and for the first time in a decade recycling rates are expected to fall. It's because the number bins are confusing and resulting in "green fatigue".
The fall means Britain could miss tough EU targets of recycling half of all household waste by 2020. So what actually happens to that recycling you leave outside your front door? Our reporter Lucy Grey followed a plastic bottle through the recycling process in Manchester...

This clip is originally from 5 live Drive on Tuesday 27 May 2014

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