It’s still worth to it recycle and increasingly important to recycle right.The City does not accept coffee pods in its Blue Bin recycling program. Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke talks about experiencing COVID-19. It is possible to remove the metal bottom of the tube with a tin opener, the metal can then be put in your blue bin. Collect plastic bags in a plastic bag until they're about the size of a basketball, then toss them in the blue bin. While the City was affected by this, it is still able to find markets to take Toronto’s recycling and make it into something new. Please place coffee cups in the Black plastic of any kind, such as take-out containers and black garbage bags aren’t accepted in the City’s recycling program. However, you should empty and rinse all containers/bags to remove residue prior to placing them in the Blue Bin. At Athens Sun Valley Material Recovery Facility, columnist Steve Lopez brings two weeks of his collected recycling to see what he’s doing right and wrong. Photo: Sean Havey, The Chronicle Blue recycling bin. Paper is a recyclable no-brainer, but what about waxy milk cartons?

The dyes in the paper can also affect the quality of the end paper product and make it difficult for paper mills to turn cups into other paper-based products. Bad enough that it can damage equipment, cause workplace injuries at the recycling facility and ruin otherwise perfectly good recyclables. The plastic lid can be put in the blue bin but the tube itself is made of layers of plastic, foil and card and cannot be recycled. When this happens, it lowers the quality of the plastic bales making them less valuable and more difficult to sell.Food scraps like apple cores, eggshells or expired leftovers belong in your Please empty and rinse food containers before tossing them in your Blue Bin. You also get a juice box to go, and your order is placed into a plastic bag.Do all the empties, and the bag, go into the blue bin?I have some answers for you, because I saved up all my potential recyclables for two weeks and, instead of parking them curbside, took them directly to the Athens Services Material Recovery Facility in Sun Valley, which receives about one-seventh of the recyclables picked up by the L.A. What to put in a blue bin, putting your bin out, text reminders, uncollected waste, tags, new or extra bins and unwanted second bins. buyers) for coffee cups. Instead, Most disposable hot beverage cups are made of paper, but lined with plastic, which makes them difficult to sort mechanically at the recycling facility. The The City does not accept the following items marketed or labelled as compostable or biodegradable in its Blue Bin recycling program:These items, which may be made of or lined with a bio-based plastic, must be disposed of in the garbage. Here are guides to help parents of school-age children navigate remote learning, as well as recent updates about education in Southern California.Companies are rushing to test drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the coronavirus right away, without having to train the immune system to make them first.A lengthy list of resignations in the last year that has some concerned that the state’s vital public health departments are not only being tasked with walking the state through a crisis — but dealing with one internally.The flag-draped coffins with the remains of seven Marines and a sailor who died in a training accident last month have arrived in Delaware.A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported at 2:05 a.m. Friday 26 miles from La Quinta, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.A Southern California woman has pleaded not guilty to smothering her infant daughter in March and causing her other baby girl’s death three years ago.Officials lifted evacuations orders as firefighters began to gain control over a vegetation fire burning near the city of Corona in Riverside County.Join us Wednesday for a live video event with L.A. Times reporters Liam Dillon and Andrew Khouri, along with columnist Erika Smith. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.

The different types of materials are then baled and sold to processors/markets to be made into something new.The money that the City gets from the sale of recyclables is only enough to partially offset the cost to run the recycling program.Changes to global recycling markets in the last couple of years have resulted in an oversupply of recycling material, with fewer markets where it can be sold.