Residents are often faced with the same problem when their blue recycle bins are put out on the street on a windy day, having to chase them across the street. KTSM reached out to the City of El ...
Some 104 bins were seized from households from Manurewa, Papakura and Wiri in the first phase of a trial to combat growing contamination of recycling, which ended in May 2024. General manager of ...
Look for a symbol on the tube to indicate it is recyclable ... Local councils may advise you not to throw toothpaste tubes away in your recycling bin, without clarifying whether recyclable tubes are ...
Research shows that only about 5% of plastics used in the U.S. actually get recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, oceans and even in the bodies of humans and animals as microplastics.
Instead of leaving them in a recycling bin, they are asked to bring them to either the Westpark Recycling Center or the Environmental Service Center so that they can be properly recycled.
In Loudoun County, one woman dumped her full recycling bin into her garage after she realized it was filled with partially-crushed boxes and empty soda cans. “I took all the boxes out ...