| Yesterday I threw out 2 empty wide-mouth plastic #7 deli containers. They now allow you to recycle #1 -7, where it used to be just #1 and 2.
But what is the difference if it is wide-mouth or not? So would a pop bottle be if you cut the neck off the bottle! Do you realize how many deli containers there must be in landfills?
I also threw away aluminum foil that had fish stick bakings on them. Can't plant scrubbers? remove foodstuff from say soiled cardboard, foil, etc? At what degree can you recycle say either of these if they have say a tiny bit of food stuff on them?
Also, can you recycle the metal lid from applesauce jars and such? They aren't cans, but they are metal.
I do know that, in at least certain locales, you are not supposed to recycle frozen food paperboard as it is treated with something water resistant? that does not breakdown properly. That is an interesting tidbit.
Can you recycle already recycled paperboard products?
Should you remove the plasticy label wrapped around 2-litre soda bottles, or leave them on?
Are you better off leaving labels on certain recylables, as opposed to being nice and removing them?, since perhaps there might be a folly that perhaps less space is taken up when the recylcer likely turns labels into a slurry, as opposed to solid loose paper being dumped at landfills?
I could come up with quite the list of questions, in due time. And...well, maybe I should see if the internet provides answers to what can and can't be recycled at this time, and why. Our local handler has a limited list that they have given us. But it is lacking.
If you were to see land that turns into a garbage mountain, you too might want to learn more about recycling and reuse.  |