The key to recycling is sorting: Separating recyclables and putting in an assigned bin.
Let’s refresh.
Aluminum Cans: Empty food and beverage cans; NO other aluminum products or tin.
Corrugated cardboard: Flatten; look for ridges; NO waxed cardboard or paperboard (cereal or beverage containers, NO greasy pizza boxes).
Glass containers: Clean; remove lids.
Mixed Paper: Catalogs, magazines, softcover books, telephone books, file folders, paperboard (cereal boxes, paper-roll cylinders); NO newspaper, NO milk, soup, or juice boxes).
Newspaper: Clean and dry.
Plastic Bags/Plastic Film: Clean grocery bags, dry cleaner bags, stretch wrap, trash bags, ziplock bags, bubble wrap.
Plastic PETE 1: Anything (clean) with PETE 1 symbol.
Plastic PETE 2: Anything (clean) with PETE 2 symbol.
Tin Cans: Clean; can be recycled as tin/steel if magnet sticks to container.
Questions? Check-out the KPB Solid Waste website or call 262-9667.
Let’s think “Recycling” before throwing into the landfill.
Information is provided by ReGroup, a nonprofit educational group formed to provide public awareness of the benefits of waste reduction, reuse and recycling on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.
Information is provided by ReGroup, a nonprofit educational group formed to provide public awareness of the benefits of waste reduction, reuse and recycling on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.
