'is it a tea bag?'

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Titled 'Where should I throw my rubbish?', the maze-like flowchart is a step-by-step guide which includes questions such as 'can you crumple it in a ball?' and 'is it a tea bag?'.

The guide has reportedly been drawn up the Sustainability and Plastic Reduction Action Team - known as SPRAT, a group set up six years ago to help mandarins 'lower their environmental footprint in their everyday lives'.

The rubbish flowchart is tacked to a wall in the offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
But civil servants have labelled it 'baffling' because there are so many different steps to follow, making the process very muddled.