TVD Consumer Practice Alerts – ‘Recycle’
Consumer Practice Alert #1
Consumer Demographic: General Public
Topic of Alert: What not to Recycle
Remove plastic thin-film labels from bottles. Thin film plastics are often found as labels on bottles, on containers, or as stray items.
Avoid a tendency to over-recycle. Smaller paper or plastic items, such as the size of a label wrap peeled off a glass bottle, are less likely to be recycled.
Consumer Practice Alert #2
Consumer Demographic: General Public
Topic of Alert: Where to Recycle
Consider the practices of your local Material Recovery Facility or MRF, where your personal recycle bin is delivered by recycling trucks. Some items that are recyclable materials may not be readily processed by your MRF, and are ultimately sent to a landfill.
Consider local public store bins or local community bins that accept items your MRF won’t recycle from your personal bin. Thinner plastic bags from your local public stores are often colored with dyes and branded. These branded store bags are an example item that are often not recycled by your neighborhood MRF, although would be expected to be recycled via your local public store recycle bins.
Consumer Practice Alert #3
Consumer Demographic: General Public
Topic of Alert: How to Recycle
Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Reduce your waste. Reuse items, such as cardboard boxes and glass bottles, before electing to recycle them. Recycle items that you’ve decided should be discarded, as long as they would likely be recycled by your recycle facility.
Choose consumer products with less packaging. Manage your waste. Empty and rinse your recyclables. Ensure your recyclables are discarded directly into dedicated recycle bins. Don’t accumulate recyclables in bags before discarding them in recycle bins.
