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This past week, SWACO and Rumpke Waste and Recycling (Rumpke) hosted a webinar about new and exciting changes to the plastics recycling program. Rumpke is now accepting plastic tubs such as butter, cottage cheese, sour cream, fruit, pudding and yogurt containers. These containers should be rinsed and lids should be reattached.
Throughout this webinar there were additional reminders about recycling dos and don’ts. You may think you have been recycling correctly, but are you? The following items should NOT be thrown into your recycling bin–prescription pill bottles, berry containers, pump dispensers, or dirty containers (for example peanut butter containers and lids must be clean, or do not throw them in the recycling). Never throw takeout food containers, clothing, plastic grocery bags, batteries, ropes, garden hoses, metal, etc into your recycling bin! It is important to note that even if an item has a recycle symbol on the packaging that does not necessarily mean it can be placed in your bin and sent to Rumpke.
The Hilliard Environmental Sustainability Commission recommends checking out the following helpful links and tools!
Helpful tools
SWACO news Central Ohio’s Recycling Program is Growing https://www.swaco.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=153
SWACO, OH
www.swaco.org
With the new year, comes some good news from our partners at Rumpke Waste & Recycling. Rumpke announced that they would be expanding their plastics recycling program to include polypropylene tubs and yogurt containers.
Plastic Expansion Update presented with SWACO and Rumpke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05mPnlAAg20
SWACO and Rumpke share changes to the curbside plastics recycling program in this one hour From Waste to Resources webinar.
Learn how to recycle right at https://recycleright.org/
Recycle Right
recycleright.org
Soon residents and businesses in central Ohio will be able to recycle even more types of plastics in Rumpke’s recycling program. Join the SWACO team and Rumpke Waste & Recycling to learn about these new changes and how you can continue to recycle right and make a difference.
Have a question about recycling? Email info@swaco.org
