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                                             GOAL

 

– KEEP OUR VALUABLE NATURAL RESOURCES  PREVIOUSLY CALLED WASTE

IN CIRCULATION BY REPROCESSING THEM 

THIS DEMANDS CLEAN STREAM

 

Contamination in GREEN WASTE cans -  See flyer below for complete list

• Anything NOT organic that could cause injury to employees if they tangle in the machinery; batteries cause fires

• These things are what the cameras on trucks pick up.

• clothing, painted or treated lumber, hoses, ropes, cement or rocks, etc.

 

Contamination in Household RECYCLE cans – See flyer below for complete list

• Soiled material – greasy pizza boxes or paper towels

• Bottles or containers with water inside that can leak out on paper; wet paper cannot be recycled

• Materials in plastic bags

• Propane canisters/tanks

• Cracked glass

• Styrofoam packaging or serviceware

• Hoses, ropes

• Yard waste – place in Green waste can

• Household Hazardous Waste

• Pallets/wood

• Metal other than a can – no hangers, equipment

• Currently only #1 and #2 plastic containers

• No plastic bags

 

REMEMBER PLEASE - One person’s contamination becomes the contamination for all the homes on the truck’s route because it makes the whole load unrecyclable – this is a huge piece to convey.

 

 

What is Clean Enough? – "CLEAN STREAM" is the goal to make recyclables acceptably clean to reprocess into new containers and products. Soiled containers cannot be reprocessed and can contaminate a whole load so it goes to landfill.

 

• Rinse out and swish water around to wash out food contaminates

• Add a little soap for greasy containers

• No need to remove labels, staples, plastic windows. caps