I received two packages from Kohls this week. The packages state they are 100% recyclable as a number 4. That is incorrect and these packages like any other bag or plastic are no more than trash in your recline cans. They contaminate the recycling stream and as I have mentioned prior add to the tax payer fee to the tune of around 2 million a year extra. We pay for the trash you and your neighbors wrongly place in your recycling carts. 1.6 Million is the cost to haul the trash from the recycling center to the Speedway Landfill for dumping. The rest is in injuries and break downs to the recycling center equipment.
Recycling actually is costing on about every item that goes in the can. We recycle because in most cases it is good for the environment. The county is not making money off the recycling program. Years ago we did on some items, but not any longer. So don't make the cost even worse by not recycling right.
You can recycle some plastic bags at like grocery stores. None though should EVER go in your reycling cart.
Remember only plastics with necks are recycled in Mecklenburg, NC. Glass, Cans, cardboard, paper, and mail inserts (paper). No shredded paper and never any plastic bags.
Remember if you bag anything in your green cart it is not emptied and goes directly to the Speedway Landfill. If you are going to bag recycling items safe us all some money and just put the bags in your trash can!
If Kohl's had shipped in cardboard then they would be allowable in the recycling cart. Plastic wrap soft shipping materials are not allowed in our stream.