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So if a milk bottle has the cap on, chances are it went to the landfill?? How about the 'neck ring' or the plastic film label?
I must have recycled 500+ milk bottles and instead of feeling good, now I feel crappy since most probably did have the cap attached when I put it in the recycle bin.
Don't feel bad. You didn't know. Education is an ongoing process, which is why we talk about things here.
I work at a place that discards many cardboard boxes, which I bring home periodically. So I collect my junk mail, used office paper, advertising flyers, cereal boxes, and thin magazines inside a cardboard box and when it's full, I fold the lid closed four ways and label it "Paper" in bold letters, with a marker. I've been told that staples are O.K. to leave in. I DO NOT recycle small envelopes, since they typically contain transparent address windows. I also leave out, any notebooks with cloth bindings or glued pages. Ripping the pages out is too much bother.
Although the cardboard box itself, is manufactured using wide scotch-tape, that cannot be helped, so I only hope the recycling machine can separate out the scotch tape from the cardboard box.
Well, it depends. Like many other gray areas when you look at the recycling world, recycling paper receipts is not a exception. The good thing is recycling this tricky item can be broken down into two different sorts of paper: regular white paper and thermal paper. If you’re still wondering just what thermal paper looks like, give consideration to your next transaction and search for the smooth, glossy receipts. That, my friends, is thermal paper.Because thermal receipts contain certain chemicals to produce the images they are doing, the paper is certainly not able to be recycled at the plant with other paper, instead requiring an independent system. Remember to clarify with a representative at your local recycling facility if thermal paper is an accepted item, and in case not, it should unfortunately be trashed.
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