DON’T BAG YOUR RECYCLABLES
The single biggest thing that you can do to help make your recycling more recyclable is… Don’t bag it.
One of the first steps at the material recovery facility is to rip open all the garbage bags so we can get at the materials inside to sort them out. Because garbage bags are so strong — we are not always able to tear them open which means we will not be able to recover the recyclables inside.
You can help by NOT putting your recyclables in plastic bags. Just put them loose in your recycling bin. Plastic bags can be recycled – but make sure they’re empty.