[Chat] Recycling News

[Schlegel, William B CW4 RES USAR USARC]

 Baltimore City is adding new items to their recycle list!!! These
include items like: books, empty aerosol cans, aluminum foil, and WIDE
MOUTH CONTAINERS (numbered up 1 to 7) such as yoghurt and margarine
tubs. Yeah Baltimore!!
For more information, read below.



CHANGES IN RECYCLING -- MORE MORE MORE!!!!
Effective January 2009:

Acceptable Recycling Material:
* Clean paper - all colors and types. - This includes catalogs,
magazines, junk mail, newspapers and non-metallic wrapping paper
* Cardboard and paperboard boxes (including cereal boxes without
liners
and frozen food packaging)
* Books (including paperbacks, textbooks and hardbacks)
* Aerosol Cans (empty)
* Glass containers such as jars and bottles
* Metal food and beverage containers
* Narrow-neck plastic containers (other than for motor oil) which
carry
codes 1 through 7 on the bottom.
NEW (to be included in your curbside single stream recycling
bin-January
2009):
* Wide-mouth plastic containers used for margarine, yogurt,
cottage cheese, mayonnaise and sour cream. Empty prescription bottles
(lids and caps do not need to be removed) and plastic drinking cups 
* Aluminum foil and aluminum pie pans 
* Clean milk and juice cartons 
NEW (to be taken to the citizen drop-off center and placed in
container
marked "rigid plastics"-January 2009)
Rigid plastics which include milk/soda crates, buckets, laundry
baskets,
lawn furniture, totes, plastic drums, coolers, flower pots, water
bottles, pallets, pet carriers, shelving, closet organizers, empty
garbage/recycling bins.