“Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space…”
What can you do to Recycle your Plastics?
It’s easy to recycle plastic! And it’s all over Utah homes: In the kitchen, garage and bathroom and everywhere in between. In an effort to make it easier for you to recycle, we employ what is known as “single stream” recycling for public drop offs. Single stream means you can put your clean plastics, cardboard and paper in one bag and we’ll take care of the rest. There are a few things though that need to be remembered:
Plastic can’t be recycled, if its got food waste in it. Anything that is going to make it stink if exposed to the outdoor heat too long, is going to end up in the landfill. Please rinse out milk jugs and other items that have contained from food we can recycle them.
Details: Types of Recyclable Plastic we Accept:
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Soft drink bottles, salad dressing bottles. Plastic Peanut butter and jam jars (more info) |
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Water bottles, 5 gallon buckets, Hula-hoop type plastic, Milk and juice bottles. Sometimes sampoo bottles. (more info) |
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Used for non food items. Cling films for things other than food. vinyl records. Blister packaging on kids toys. We can Accept PVC only as Construction & Demolition debris, but it is not recyclable. (more info) |
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Frozen food bags. Squeeze bottles (like mustard and honey bottles). Flexible container lids (more info) |
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Microwave ware; Yogurt and margarine containers; disposable cups, Lawn Furniture, (more info) |
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the smoother type Egg cartons; packing peanuts; disposable trays and cups, Foam type disposable coffee cups, Take out trays from restaurants. Not Recyclable. (more info) |
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Baby Milk bottles; compact discs; instrument panels; eyeglass lenses . (more info) |
Plastics are one of the easiest things to recycle, once you start seeing that its everywhere. Its people like you that make all the difference. The following is for reference only, if you bring us down all different types of plastics in one mix, we’ll gladly sort it for you. This list is is if you’d like to better understand the plastics you’re recycling and take it one step further.
Plastics from both our Orem and Heber Utah Recycling centers are brought in, processed and sorted. We then bale them to be used again, keeping a commodity that takes 200 years to break down and is sometimes toxic, to be used again in it's proper and safe place. We love your plastics!
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