rjewell's blog

All that you can compost, when you have a municipal composting facility:

Food scraps, including vegetable-ends (carrot tops, celery bottoms, etc) bones, meat, leftover, the cooking mistakes you’ve made (or maybe that’s just me).. » read more

….Fluorescent tubes & bulbs can not go into the curbside garbage or recycling bin.
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Shredded paper shouldn't go into the curbside recycling...

By shredding paper you cut the tiny fibers that join together to make a sheet of paper. The fibers have to be a certain length to be able to join together, if they aren’t the right length the paper can't be recycled again. » read more

Christmas lights don't belong in the recycling bin. They wrap around the  machines that sort recyclables, causing them to become in effective.

What should you do with it? » read more

….Blankets in my household recycling cart

Answer: These wrap around our machines causing them to become ineffective.

What should I do with it? » read more

What can and cannot be recycled? where? how? why?