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Green Tip: How to prepare your stuff for recycling

Below are things to know when preparing your things for recycling. Your local recycler will thank you.

checking to see what is able to be collected at curbside in your area; for most areas that means plastic items with Plastic Identification Codes of #1 and #2. For more info: Plastic Identification Codes
sorting your plastic carefully; including removing caps from bottles (most caps cannot be recycled)
attached labels are acceptable
rinsing, cleaning and flattening plastic before it goes going curbside

So what can be usually recycled at curbside? Below is from http://www.recycleright.org:

what you can usually recycle at your curbside

Help to close the loop - buy products with recycled materials in them. Remember to reduce, reuse and recycle. For more information:

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December 4. 2009 19:57 Mandie Reed

if everyone just do a little to help out in the world it will be a better place and the kids will be alot better off in the future.

December 5. 2009 13:14 Martha

This information is really useful. I should print this out and make this a lesson plan for my Monday class. I knew that our kids really needs to know how to segregate and recycle their waste stuffs.

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January 12. 2010 01:27 Good Will

I think almost all paper can be recycled today, but some types are harder to recycle than others. Papers coated with plastic or aluminum foil, and papers that are waxed, pasted, or gummed are usually not recycled because the process is too expensive. Gift-wrap paper also cannot be recycled due to its already poor quality.

February 21. 2010 08:01 Carico

Recycling is so easy I don't know why more people don't do it. Our community makes it super easy with individual bins and labels.

April 8. 2010 15:07 Sensa

Hi,

It’s hard to find knowledgeable people on this topic, but you sound like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks

June 2. 2010 12:53 Wendy

This is interesting, post more often!

August 30. 2010 05:22 Go Green

Now the recycling is part of everyday's life. Before we had only bin for rubbish, now we have also boxes for plastic, glass ...

August 30. 2010 05:25 Wind Turbines

I think the recycling is important, but all is starting from manufacturers - they all should use recyclable materials.

September 26. 2010 20:31 Green MBA Degree

These are some great tips! We need to ramp advertising efforts to educate people on how easy it is to recycle. If everyone put in a little effort we could see tremendous results!

May 13. 2011 12:47 Canon Photo Printer

Reycling is the best process and therefore the people across the world have been quite keen to know more about it.