Some people are demon recyclers, rinsing tins and bottles and breaking every bit of waste down to its recyclable elements.
Others take a relaxed attitude putting newspapers to one side but chucking other things in the general bin because washing them out is too much trouble.
Reading Borough Council is particularly keen to persuade people to minimise their waste and even has a waste minimisation strategy to reduce the rubbish that goes to landfill.
It shares a waste disposal contract run by re3 with Wokingham borough and Bracknell Forest councils so the rules for recycling apply right across the three local authorities.
West Berkshire and South Oxfordshire districts have different rules so the answers to this quiz do not apply.
However, not everyone is completely clear on what you can and cannot put in your household recycling bins - maroon in Reading, black boxes in Wokingham and blue bins in Bracknell.
So here is a little quiz devised by getreading which we hope will clear up any confusion you might have over what to put in your kerbside recycling box or bin and what would constitute contamination.
Recycle Now has supplied some of the images in the quiz.
