Recycling

Service at the Honesdale High School right now consists of two eight (8) yard trash containers and one eight (8) yard recycling container at the cafeteria. They also have an eight (8) yard trash container in use for the Industrial Arts department. All three of the trash containers are picked up twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays. The one recycling container is service once a week on Wednesday. The goal I believe would be to reduce the trash pickup by at least one container and add an additional container to handle the Single Stream Recycling. The High School has forty eight (48) yards of trash vs. eight (8) yards of recycling weekly. To start if every person buys into the recycling program you should have more recycling then trash. With the Single Stream Program there is very little that the school generates that would have to go as trash. If you look at some of the information about Single Stream you will see we have expanded what can be recycled. **//__ The following Items can be recycled __//** • Aluminum food and beverage containers with food debris removed. Labels do not need to be removed. • Glass food and beverage containers with lids and food debris removed: Clear, Brown Green. Labels do not have to be removed. • Natural and pigmented plastic containers with symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 (milk bottles, water bottles, detergent bottles, shampoo bottles, bleach bottles, etc). Lids and food debris removed. Labels do not have to be removed. • Ferrous (Iron, steel, tin) cans with food debris removed. • Newsprint - black and white or pigmented. Not bound or placed in bags. • Construction paper, Kraft paper, cereal Boxes, shoe boxes, or similar. • Printer paper, computer paper, copy paper. • Junk Mail. • Magazines, catalogs. • Corrugated cardboard that is small enough to fit into the bin and not bound. • Phone books.
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