Sort Recycling With Care

Joe B. Long reports that residents are not separating materials as carefully as they should. When recycling items are not sorted properly, the items are put in with standard trash, defeating the purpose of recycling. If you participate in the recycling program, Long asks that residents please remember the following guidelines.
All recycled items must be sacked in blue bags, available from the University Lease Office, 110 Carnegie Hall, or at the Physical Plant Services office on Alabama Avenue, or at the PPS warehouse on Georgia Avenue.
Bags should be placed on the side of the road no later than 7:30 a.m. on the morning of pickup. Items to be recycled must be sorted and placed in separate bags. If plastic bottles are mixed in with tin cans, the entire bag goes to the trash.
Aluminum cans: Rinse the cans and store with other aluminum materials such as clean aluminum foil and pie pans. Crushing the cans is optional.
Tin cans: Tin cans need to be rinsed before storing, but the labels do not have to be taken off. The end of the can does not have to be removed. Crushing the cans is optional.
#1 (PET) Plastic: Remove the lid and rinse out the container. This category includes two-liter drink bottles, peanut butter jars and plastics that are stamped with the recycling triangle with the number 1.
#2 (HDPE) Plastic: Remove the lid and rinse. Some examples in this category are milk jugs, detergent bottles and plastics that are stamped with the recycling triangle with the number 2.
Mixed Paper: Flatten paperboard boxes from cereal, crackers and other items.
Among the unacceptable items are plastic shopping bags such as those used at grocery stores and drugstores; cardboard milk or juice cartons; boxes with food products stuck to them; wax-coated cardboard; polystyrene pellets (packing peanuts) and Styrofoam inserts.