questions about recycling!?!?

Question

can i recycle white computer paper with cardboard paper?
or white paper with newspaper?
what about soup cans are the recycleable?(what are they?)

Answer 1

As you can see by the links, differing methods have worked for different locales, so I think the main thing is this:

Just do it.

However, these tips may be helpful to reduce time wasted by community workers:

The items that are paper can be kept with paper product.

However, you can separate them into four basic categories:

1. Newspaper
2. Magazines
3. Other
4. Shredded (for care of the environment, while protecting yourself from identity theft, as many identity thieves have been known to rummage through rubbish, no matter how filthy, to get what they are looking for.

All other products can be kept together until processed by workers.

Tips: Rinse food containers, remove covers, and collapse items that can be collapsed. It may not be appropriate to recycle waxed cardboard products, like soy milk cartons.

Also, keep in mind that you should not co-mingle corrugated cardboard with regular paper products, as they are different entities altogether.

The persons hired to organize and sort the recyclables are able to tell how to do it best.

Your involvement may assist them if the bins at local recycling centers in your community specify what should be in them, if such centers exist in your community.

If your community utilizes roadside p/u, just follow the St. Paul guidelines, unless you are instructed to do otherwise by your county or city.

Good initiative. Helpful question for all of us. You may also be interested in the following question:

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Answer 2

Well, your area might have different rules. I would mix the white paper/white computer paper right in with the newspaper. The cardboard, I would just place inside the bin. Soup cans, I usually take the labels off, along with both lids, then place in the clear white recycling bag.

Answer 3

Cardboard paper, newspaper, and white paper need to be recycled seperately. I don't think soup cans are recycleable.

Answer 4

Every municipality has different recycling systems, it seems. check out www.earth911.org to find info for your area. If you can't find anything there, call your city or county for information.
In some places you can put all paper products together or even all recyclables together, but in other places they require separation. It all depends on what kind of market price they can get for the materials.
soup cans are made of tin and aluminum.

Answer 5

Well : according with the " Recycling Association they will
accept Aluminum Cans, PLastic bottels ,Paper must have
California Value Redemption Stamp on each item
visit http://www.green.earthrecycling.org

Answer 6

What’s eligible for recycling?
All mixed paper is eligible for recycling. This includes white paper (even with color ink or lined); colored paper; envelopes (even with windows); magazines/catalogs/glossy paper; newspapers; phone books; soft-cover books; holiday wrapping paper, post-its, paperboard (i.e.: cereal boxes and the back of legal pads), paper bags, manila folders; adding machine tape; and any other clean, dry paper items.

All corrugated cardboard is also recyclable, but boxes should be placed beside paper recycling bins rather than in them to facilitate removal. Certain items which are not eligible for recycling include Tyvek envelopes, sheets of labels, soiled paper products and coated-paper products.

The Sanitation Department accepts only plastic bottles and jugs imprinted with #1 or #2 in the recycling triangle on the container’s bottom. A good rule of thumb, is that only containers with necks smaller in circumference than their bodies are eligible for recycling. Yogurt cups, butter tubs, plastic bags (even with #2 coding), and other similar items are not included in most recycling programs, as the different resins used to manufacture these plastics are considered contaminants for recycling #1 and #2 items.

Metal soup cans, empty aerosol cans, soda cans, aluminum-foil wrap and trays, and other household metals (wire hangers, pots, pans, etc.) are all included in the recycling program. These items should be placed in recycling bins designated for glass, metal, plastic and cartons. Also acceptable are bulk metal for recycling, such as metal filing cabinets, washing machines, metal futon frames, box springs, water heaters, and certain small appliances.

Hope this helps...

Answer 7

You can recycle all of them but not together. The matter ground in the kind of cellulose fibre in each of them. White papers have a long cellulose fibers and are bleached. In the other hand cardboad are not bleached.

Soup can are recyclable as those from other food products storage in tin cans (milk, beverage, etc)

I hope I could help you

Answer 8

Yes, most of the paper set out for recycling goes into the same incinerator. Check it our you might be surprised at how little what you are doing is doing. Keep up the good work it looks good anyway.

Answer 9

Yes, you can. You can stick all of those things in your recycling bin. Soup cans are recyclabe. Make sure that if you are going to recycle any tin cans that you rinse out all the food from the cans.

Answer 10

particular they do have human beings pass threw the garbage and form it out. yet i recognize this as a results of fact I used to very own a recycleing company and the sorrowful concern is and the regular public do not are conscious of it in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it take 4 hundred years for a rubbish bag to interrupt down , and televisions, pc video demonstrate contraptions old radio's do get sent to the landfil website and those products at the instant are not biodegradable, and those products carry as much as twenty pounds of lead in them witch does at last paintings that is thank you to the lakes, oceans and different waterway.