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The majority of major grocery stores have a bin out front where you can recycle your plastic bags. Plastic grocery store bags and this is not typically picked up curbside.Plastic bottles are usually made with #1 and is a high valued recyclable.Typically plastic #4, and plastic #7 is not recyclable, however some plastic #7 is actually compostable this will usually be stated on the actual packaging or container. Almost all recycling centers take plastics #1(PET) & #2(HDPE).Please also note that recycling plastic varies by your local recycling center. It can be recycled into so many different products. PLASTICS Every piece of plastic ever made, is still here, it does NOT break down in landfill, which is why it’s crucial it’s recycled, and never littered. Recycled cardboard makes cereal boxes, paperboard, paper towels, tissues, printing and writing paper, and more cardboard boxes. Reduce food wrappers, as these go into landfill, and COMPOST your tissues and napkins. Food wrappers made of plastic, dirty tissues and napkins CANNOT be recycled.

Your plastic lined drink cartons, like your milk carton, your favorite juice carton, etc., are pretty much accepted, make sure to ask with your local recycling center.

Keep it dry, please keep it dry, wet or greasy cardboard can clog sorting machines. A lot of curbside collectors encourage to bale them together and tie with a string.

Corrugated Cardboard is highly valued.

Cardboard, stickers, laminated papers or laminated cardboard, or carbon paper (like receipts) should not be included in your paper bin. Staples are acceptable but any plastic wrap or rubber bands should be removed.

Junk mail, glossy papers, magazines, those pesky pizza hang tags on your door or car window, envelopes, computer paper, and paper packaging can all go into one bin.

This should definitely be saved in its own bin because newspaper material goes directly back into newsprint recycling.

Newspapers are a pretty awesome thing to recycle, recycling a 4 foot stack saves the equivalent of one 40 ft fir tree.

Lightbulbs, drinkware, crystal, window and mirror glass, ceramic, and kitchen cookware do not get recycled. Plastic, glass, aluminum, tin, aerosol cans, and foil all need to be separated.

Separation time! It’s great to have separate storage bins or containers for these.

Typically, don’t recycle unmarked plastics. Look to this article here to see what plastics you can actually recycle - Recycling Number on the Bottom of Plastics.

Rinse glass, plastic containers, aluminum and tin cans – yes, foil can be recycled too – wipe any debris off beforehand. Tainted recyclables can “infect” the rest of what’s in your recycling bin, making it difficult to recycle, and it typically just ends up in landfill if it’s dirty. Check up on your city/county recycling laws and make sure you abide by it. Recycling standards and laws vary from city to city, and county to county.Here are some tips to make recycling more beneficial, and easier for recycling facilities to actually send off to the correct places to RECYCLE the waste! Chinese officials also complained that much of the recyclable material the country received from overseas had not been properly cleaned or was mixed with non-recyclable materials. “China’s ban covers imports of 24 kinds of solid waste, including unsorted paper and the low-grade polyethylene terephthalate used in plastic bottles, as part of a broad cleanup effort and a campaign against “yang laji,” or “foreign garbage.” It also sets new limits on the levels of impurities in other recyclables. It would be a smart choice to limit how much you use and consume, but understand waste can’t be avoided altogether. Now recycling facilities here in the US are swamped with the overwhelming amounts of recycling items they are getting. We used to ship our plastics over to China, but let’s face it – they got fed up with how unorganized, and dirty it was, and it wasn’t worth their time or the dollar. Recycling isn’t a new thing, it’s been around for decades – so why only 34% of all waste being created is recycled? Is it because people are uneducated on the topic? Don’t have time to recycle? Regardless of the reason, recycling is not difficult, and can offer substantial benefits to the environment, as well as the home owner or renter.