There are recycling questions we hear regularly from residents. Engaging with the public is one of the most important things that we do because it allows us to clear up confusion about recycling, settle family debates about certain items, and encourage better habits for waste reduction and recycling. Here are answers to the top questions our staff has answered.
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How Clean Is Clean? What it Really Means to Be Empty, Clean and Dry
Not all things are suitable for curbside recycling. In Cuyahoga County, only five items belong: Cans, cartons, glass bottles and jars, paper and boxes plus plastic bottles and jugs. And there are best practices to recycling right. One best practice is to make sure that your curbside recyclables are empty, clean and dry.
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Recycling Markets and Midwest Resourcefulness
Living in the Midwest provides us access to many resources. There is an abundance of fresh water for drinking, fertile soil for planting, and stable recycling markets. What? Yes, stable recycling markets!
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Ho-Ho-Holiday Packaging… Can It Be Recycled?
You’re probably doing a lot of online holiday shopping this year. The many deliveries are creating lots of packaging in your home. So, what to do with all those boxes and envelopes? Packaging materials are incredibly diverse. Can the holiday packaging be recycled? Consider which items can be recycled at home or at a drop-off, reused or placed in the trash.
Before recycling or throwing these items away, consider trying to reuse them.
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Why You Shouldn’t Pay Attention to the Number on Plastic Packaging
Resin codes identify the chemicals used to make plastic packaging. Developed by the plastics industry, they were never intended to be a consumer communications or education tool.
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Recycling’s Evolution: Past and Present
Recycling is prominent in our communities and our businesses. Annually, Cuyahoga County diverts more than 1.4 million tons of waste from landfills through recycling, composting and other waste reduction. Today, our focus at the District is to help residents understand the importance of recycling properly and its limits.
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Holiday Recycling Best Practices
Americans generate 25 percent more garbage betweenThanksgiving and New Year’s Day than at any other time of year. Cardboard containers, paperboard boxes, wrapping paper, metal tins and Styrofoam™ packing materials all are part of the holiday recycling conundrum. Make sure you know which items are naughty and which are nice when it comes to making your home green for the holidays.
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Holiday Cardboard Recycling Tips
A USA Today analysis of several industry studies on cardboard use shows Americans are sending more corrugated cardboard to the landfill than to recycling plants compared to past years. Oftentimes the reason is poor cardboard recycling practices at the curb
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3 Factors that Determine if Something Can Be Recycled
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. For recycling to work, there must be a large supply of a homogeneous materials, a way to collect and process those materials and there needs to be a market demand. And all that has to make sense economically.
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5 Ways to Be a Recycling Advocate
Want to do your part in preserving the earth for generations to come? Not sure how to participate? Recycling is a simple and easy way to make a difference in saving the planet for a brighter today and tomorrow.
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