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People are putting dirty, bottles with curdled milk, pastry containers with frosting still in it, cans with tomato sauce in them, the list goes on. Recycling items need to be clean enough to not cause decay, clean enough so not to call bugs and rodents to the container. The items mentioned ruin a complete bag of items so that the recycling crew ends up putting it all in the trash anyway. Please pay attention and help keep our environment healthy. it just takes a little time and attention. Thanks so much for caring.
People are putting dirty, bottles with curdled milk, pastry containers with frosting still in it, cans with tomato sauce in them, the list goes on. Recycling items need to be clean enough to not cause decay, clean enough so not to call bugs and rodents to the container. The items mentioned ruin a complete bag of items so that the recycling crew ends up putting it all in the trash anyway. Please pay attention and help keep our environment healthy. it just takes a little time and attention. Thanks so much for caring.
Where can we find the rules? Do different cities have different rules? Since I have never seen the rules, I'm just doin' the same thing that I did in my last city, which may not apply to where I live now.
Well, by rules I mean CLEAN plastics in the plastic tub, CLEAN glass in the glass tub, etc. Where my son lives, there is no need to separate anything, you can put all glass, plastic, paper in one bin. I guess the city sells it to someone who will sort it for profit. However, when we went there the other day the bins were full of trash bags which were full of dirty items, lots of food particles and overall just full of trash. Our environment is in trouble and by not taking the time to clean and sort, what is the benefit? We may as well just throw everything in the landfill. By only one response to my original posting, maybe no one cares much anyway. I will move on to subjects like where is the best pizza or taco in town!!
I work for a recycling company with a location in Durham. Basically it's rinsed out glass, aluminum cans, steel cans, and #1 and #2 plastics, like Tide bottles, water bottles, and soda bottles. Basically anything made of paper - unless it has food in it (pizza boxes) or other non-paper stuff like glue (lots of it). Not plastic containers that hold toxic or harmful stuff that doesn't rinse well, like motor oil or gasoline.
We like to say whatever you can throw away inside your house. The stuff outside is not so good (fertilizer bags, the motor oil, etc.)
Basically it's rinsed out glass, aluminum cans, steel cans, and #1 and #2 plastics, like Tide bottles, water bottles, and soda bottles.
So, if I make spaghetti tonight, all I have to do with the sauce jar when I'm done is slosh some water in it and dump it out. I don't have to scrub it with soap and water, or run it through the diswasher, or soak the label off it, right? There can be some food residue in it, but you don't want me to, like, throw a half jar of sauce in the recycle bin.
To answer on his behalf, no, because the grease from the box ends up seeping into the layers of cardboard. If you can devise a way of maybe putting depoits on reusable pizza boxes, you may make some money.
Out here in the county of Granville we only have volunteer recycling. It would be nice to have proper pick up included, as that means we have to take everything to the recycling area. And it better be clean to put in our trucks, lol!
In Orange county, we only have volunteer dumping...you can get most of the recycling picked up curb side, but you either have to take your garbage to the dump yourself or contract with someone to pick up your trash. Very forward thinking, I'd say.
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