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WEEKLY TIP: Heed rules before tossing items in the blue box

Efforts could be for naught if you don't pay close attention to the rules of recycling
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Orillians have a wonderful record of blue box usage and we can be rightfully proud of the attempts we have made over past years to reduce
waste going to our landfill.

But sometimes the items we intend to recycle end up going to the dump. Why? Some reasons follow:

  1. You neglected to wash and rinse food particles out of the container. (It goes to the dump).
  2. You’ve ignored the greasy stain on the cardboard pizza box. (It goes to the dump.)
  3. You’ve misread the symbol on the product; the symbol with the three arrows means the package was made from recycled content. It may not be recyclable at all. (Yep! Off to the dump.)

All of us need to know the local rules for Blue Box recycling — and follow them closely.

Otherwise, a lot of our efforts are for nothing.


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