In addition to the usual suspects . . .
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Katie Henry
What’s in your trash? All this stuff, according to recent data collected by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. Just look at all those recyclables!
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Paper:
Receipts you don’t need
Boxes in your kitchen (i.e. from cereal, pasta, frozen food, crackers, cake mixes)
Boxes from storage bags, foil, plastic wrap, and wax paper
Wrappers from tea bags
Cardboard packaging from new clothing (i.e. shirt cardboard)
Ice cream cartons (rinse first)
Pizza boxes (no grease or food residue)
Paper bags from fast food/take-out runs
All of your junk mail and newspaper advertisements
Metal:
Can lids (place inside can; squeeze can to keep lid secure)
Foil seals from yogurt cartons (rinse first)
Jar lids
Clean foil
Plastics (Must be labeled 1 – 7):
Margarine tubs
Yogurt containers
Sour cream, dip, and cottage cheese containers
Some lids and caps
Produce boxes
Bakery trays
Egg cartons
Medicine bottles
Fast food cups and lids
No plastic bags of any kind go in your recycling container. Take these to the grocery store.
Comments
Good list, but it probably
Good list, but it probably only applies to Concord.
Please don't confuse i.e. (that is) with e.g. (for example)!
pay as you throw
As I understand it we throw everything we normally bag goes in purple bag including garbage. ? what do we do with kitty litter?
Do we still use the blue bins as we do now?
Thank you Lesley Straw; email pulmles@msn.com
8 rex drive concord nh 03303
What do we do with small
What do we do with small appliances, small branches, and things we use to put out to the curb? Will they still take those?
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