How to separate the recyclable items at home?
Recycling trucks in North America usually have two compartments, one for paper and flattened cardboard (Fiber), and other for plastic and metal containers and milk and juice cartons. At most sorting centers, these two categories are placed on two separate conveyor belts for further sorting depending on requirements of each recycler. Separate the garbage in two different containers: Please Do the following: Fiber: Flyers and magazines, paper and envelops, cereal box, frozen food, laundry detergent, shoe and other boxes, cardboard boxes ( Flattened and tied up) cardboard tubes and rolls, file folders, paper bags, telephone books, books etc. Containers: Glass: Glass bottles and jars, Milk and juice cartons and all other rigid multi layer packaging from liquids, Metal/aluminum tin cans, clean aluminum pie plates and foil, hard plastic bottles from any sort of liquid, including shampoo, and laundry detergent, yoghurt, margarine, shortening and other similar containers covers and lids, Soft
