https://www.fox46.com/news/local-news/inside-look-how-bubble-wrap-is-being-recycled-in-the-queen-city/
Inside Look: How bubble wrap is being recycled in the Queen City
How To Recycle Bubble Wrap Not In Green Cart
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https://www.fox46-look-how-bubble-wrap-is-being-recycled-in-the-queen-city/.com/news/local-news/inside
This is a good story. Check it out.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – A Charlotte manufacturer is aiming to keep bubble wrap and other plastics out of landfills by collecting them before they are dropped into recycle bins. “We will take the bubble wrap and the air pillows, you grind it essentially into what looks like a paper shredder, but for recyclables,” said Executive Director of Material Lifecycle Innovation, Tiffani Burt. |
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So why can’t you just throw air pillows and bubble wrap into a recycling bin? “The challenge with flexibles, like bubble wrap and like a mailer, is that they get caught in the sortation process at the material recovery facility and cause downtime,” said Burt. That’s why all flexible’s are collected at store drop-offs, including the Envision Charlotte Innovation Barn, starting later this summer.
This is also the same reason you never Bag anything in your green recycling cart. Anything in a bag gets pulled out and sent to Speedway Landfill at a cost of 1.8 Million a year. Any items in the bags are not removed for recycling. So if you bag it you WASTE Your Time and Cost the County and the citizens $'s. Thousands a day in wrong items in the recycling carts. |
