One Change Per Week: Bag-Free Bins

Here’s your weekly Curbside Collection Tip on blue cart etiquette!

Our blue recycling carts are bag free! All items should be placed loosely in your cart, not in bags in your cart. First, it’s a safety concern as we can’t see what’s in there when we rip them open. Second, soft plastics of all kinds are a disaster when it comes to sorting out recycling later in the process—they get stuck on sorting equipment and snag items together, making it difficult for the machines to identify what’s what. Please keep bags and other soft plastics out of your recycling cart!

If your cart is full to the brim and you have extra recycling this week, then (and only then!) may you bag it. Please use transparent clear or blue bags for extra recycling and place them next to your cart. Workers will dump your cart, and then dump the contents of the bag(s) into your cart and dump that, too. Empty bags are taken away for separate recycling.

And if you have soft plastic recycling, remember to take this to Do Your Part, along with Styrofoam and glass (also not permitted in your blue cart).

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