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enaols asked in EnvironmentGreen Living · 1 decade ago

recycling??

i gust got thinking about the hole going green think and now im realy in 2 it. i want to kno more about recycling. our city dosnt give the special bins for recycling so we put it all in blue bags and they pick them up like that. but if i want 2 recycle as much as possable (like matal,plastic,glass,and paper) would i have 2 seperate them each and drop them off?? or if i put it all in the blue bag do they seperate them later?? im just kinda confused so if anyone could help me out that would be great. please and thank you

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    It's always courteous to separate them.

    I work in the recycling business, and even separating different things like plastics and paper by putting them in grocery sacks within the blue bag helps tremendously.

    Generally, you want to sort them into the following categories:

    -Plastics (Some places separate the different types of plastics, others don't)

    -Chipboard (This includes white paper, colored paper, food boxes, ect.

    -Cardboard

    -Aluminum

    -Steel/Tin

    -Glass

    Again though, the different groups may vary depending on the recycling center.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i would seperat them then drop them off because after that do the blue bags get recycled so i weould do the extra step

  • 1 decade ago

    separate them. sometimes you have to take paper and card board to different places

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