Recycling isn’t magic. What you put in the recycling can goes into various kinds of machinery to be chopped, melted or broken down in some way. Some things can’t be broken down at all. Others get stuck between moving parts, and sometimes an entire batch can be contaminated by just one thing. Recycling only works […]
There are some things that you may have thought were curb-recyclable, but aren’t. Even if they have recyclable markings on them, local recyclers often don’t have the machinery to process them, or they are coated with something problematic. To name a few: You can toss corrugated, plain cardboard and paper food containers into the recycling […]