All posts in the topic Plastics Recycling - Sept. 6th @ 9am-12pm - HANC (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Nicole Waxmonsky-Tu at Oct 01 04:31 UTC
Great way to recycle the plastics that usually go in the trash! Hopefully there will be a great turnout so the service is more readily available. From: http://www.cityofroseville.com/index.asp?NID=1331 Roseville is making it easier for you to recycle your plastics. The City is holding free Plastic Collection Days, on Saturday, September 6 and Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the Harriet Alexander Nature Center, 2520 N. Dale St, from 9:00 am to noon. Plastic items will be accepted on the collection days only. Bring your rinsed-out plastic items that are not accepted in curbside recycling. Items that will be accepted have a number 2, 4, 5, or 6 on the bottom. Examples include grocery and bread bags; yogurt, margarine and cottage cheese containers; “clamshell” containers for fresh berries; ice cream pails; and syrup bottles. Automotive product containers, toys and Styrofoam will not be accepted. You will need to sort the items by the plastic number; volunteers will be on hand to assist and everyone’s cooperation will be appreciated. This is a pilot program, initiated by the HANC Advisory Committee and the City’s Recycling Program, with the gracious cooperation of the Parks and Recreation Department. If the pilot program is deemed successful, the City will consider offering this service on a regular basis starting in the spring of 2009. Costs are paid for with money from the sale of recyclable collected through the curbside program. AGSI Recycling will collect the sorted plastics and ship them to various manufacturers.
This is great! I took some items over to the Eastside Food Coop in N.E. Mpls,
they are also piloting a collection project. But H.A.N.C. is much more
convenient.
I hope there is great participation and this catches on as a regular recycling
opportunity!
And I hope manufacturers start making some of those numbers bigger. Some are
pretty tough to read.
I stumbled upon this when visiting HANC with the kids. Hopefully they do it
again in the future! We're also saving our plastics for the Eastside Food Coop
in N.E. Mpls (they take all plastics from #1-5 whereas HANC was taking #6 but
not #1 or #3). I mentioned this to Nancy, HANC volunteer, and I think she's
looking into expanding their program to include #1-6. And yesterday at the Wild
Rice Festival they were composting! And I see Roseville did this at an earlier
event this year reducing trash to a single pound. Way to go Roseville!
There will be plastics recycling again at the HANC, Oct 4th 9am - noon. http://mn-roseville.civicplus.com/index.asp?NID=1331
Just a reminder that there is Plastics Recycling this Saturday @ the HANC from 9am - noon. Looks like the last collection day went well! http://www.ci.roseville.mn.us/index.asp?NID=1357