Laptop Battery Putting the wrong items in your recycling can cost you money. Every year, the Somerset County Recycling Center spends around $130,000 to get rid of items it can't accept, according to Pamela Lewis, Somerset County Recycling Coordinator.
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Thinkpad Three 20-cubic-ton garbage bins of trash are taken to a landfill each week from the center. And because a good portion of the Recycling Center's $7.5 million budget comes from municipal recycling fees and the county, taxpayers are spending an extra $130,000 a year that could be saved by following the recycling rules.
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Microsoft Lewis said garbage sometimes sneaks its way into the recycling buckets. There are two workers at the center dedicated to picking this trash from the items being processed.
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Laptop Computers One of the worst offenders: plastic grocery bags.
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Laptop Computer "We have a problem with that," Lewis said. She said people often place their recyclables in the bags before putting them into the blue recycling bucket. But those bags are just ending up in the landfill.
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Desktop Computer Another problem is the many items people will believe are recyclable but are not accepted at the center in Bridgewater.
Notebooks While corrugated cardboard is accepted, Lewis said paperboard -- such as that used in cereal boxes -- is not. If it is mixed in with the recycling, it gets thrown out.
Lenovo Plastic bottles and containers make up the largest amount of items thrown away. The center only accepts resin types 1 and 2 plastics -- such as soft drink bottles, detergent bottles and milk bottles. Resin types 3 through 7 are not accepted and include certain shampoo bottles, yogurt containers, buckets, egg trays, cups, and certain condiment bottles among others. Lewis said recyclers should check the plastic for the triangular recycle symbol with a number in it before recycling.
Hard Drive "People should really look before they buy," she said. "There's a lot of plastics now that can't be recycled. It's very complex. Once I got involved, I couldn't believe there's over 400 resins of plastics."
Travelstar Toys are also unacceptable. "We don't recycle toys and I don't know any county in New Jersey that recycles toys because they are made with different plastics," Lewis said.
Gateway Bill Saller, superintendent of the Recycling Center, said the center does not have the capacity to accept all plastic types and the two that are accepted were chosen for their resale value.
Laptop Parts "You can't take everything," he said. "There's no market for it is what it boils down to."
Software Lewis suggested recyclers check for nearby facilities that may accept the items the Recycling Center won't take. She also said consumers should call companies selling plastic containers that are non-recyclable and complain.
Hard Drives Saller said despite the level of garbage being shipped out from the center, Somerset County residents are among "best recyclers in the country."
Electronics "A great majority of them follow the rules," he said.
Canon Reusing toys and other items instead of throwing them out can is an alternative to recycling, and avoiding over-packaged items such as sip drinks and individually packaged snacks can help as well, Lewis noted.
Desktop Pc "There's more than just recycling; there's reducing and reusing," she said. "Just recycling is not enough."
Desktop Computers A final tip offered is to thoroughly rinse the items to be recycled. That will reduce the smell and health risk for workers at the center.
Think Pad By Rick Cornejo
The Reporter, Somerset - 4/28/2004
Topic: Recycling
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