Would you like your household to do more in promoting environmental sustainability? You can start by exercising the three R's: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. It is easy putting the first two into practice, but residential recycling is a collaborative effort with a chain that starts at your trash bin and ends at the recycling plant. Residential recycling services facilitate this process by ensuring recyclable trash is sorted and graded properly. Here are several myths that shouldn't discourage you from doing your part for a sustainable planet:
Myth 1: You can dump everything in the blue bin for the recycling service to sort out
While dumping everything in one bin makes it easier for your home to handle trash, dumping everything in the blue recycling bin contaminates recyclable waste. Non-recyclable material that often gets into trash bins includes jewelry, baby wipes, vegetable waste, and food scraps. Therefore, dumping everything together actually reduces the amount of recyclable waste available to use.
Ensure to follow the guidelines for the bins provided by residential recycling services. In many areas, the colors are:
Blue bin for recyclable paper
Green for recyclable cans, bottles, and plastics
Purple for recyclable electronic waste like toners
Orange for all other waste
Proper separation lowers contamination and makes it easier for the automated trash service to recycle more recyclable waste.
Myth 2: Products made of several materials are non-recyclable
In the past, it was hard to recycle objects that were made from different materials, for example, toys made from plastic and metal. But today, electronics made from plastic and metal are stripped for traces of metals in their circuits, which are recyclable.
Myth 3: Recycling can only be done once, so there is no point
This is very untrue, especially for glass and metals, because they can be recycled indefinitely without affecting their strength or quality. Admittedly, paper and plastic have lower recycling lifespans, but they are also recyclable a few times. If you are unsure if anything is recyclable, you can safely assume it is and put it in the appropriately colored trash bin. The residential recycling services will sort it out.
Myth 4: Residential recycling services take away jobs from poor trash pickers
Individual trash pickers work with residential recycling services instead of competing with them. Residential recycling services are nearer to where trash sorters pick their trash, so they find it easier to work together. In an actual sense, they empower them economically by providing a ready market.
Are you looking for ways to make your home more environmentally friendly? Talk to a recycling service, such as Ware Disposal, about usable tips in residential recycling.
Share19 August 2021
