There are that many types of plastic HDPE, LDPE, PVC, PET, etc., etc. How do they expect the average Joe Public who doesn't know one from the other to differentiate? I put all rigid plastics in the blue bin, irrespective of colour. It is only the films that go in the black one. Yes, all food waste here now has to go into the black bin now and not the green bin. I can understand that with certain food waste that you have cooked like meat and chicken carcasses but why should vegetable waste such as peelings, banana skins and orange peels not go into the green bin. Apparently it is OK to put windfall fruit in the green bin so what's the difference between putting in that and apple cores, etc? I do wonder at times about the people who have the responsibility for making the decisions on these matters if they know what they're doing.
This is the list of what CAN go in out green bins:
Grass leaves & weeds
Flowers & Plants
Hedge clippings
Branches less than 6cm thick
Prunings & twigs
Windfall fruit
Hay/Straw (bedding from non-meat eating animals such as rabbits
Vegetable wast from the garden (not kitchen waste).