HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Residents enrolled in the Allegan County’s resource recovery program have new recycling requirements beginning Jan. 1, 2020.
For starters, plastic bags and shredded paper will no longer be accepted after the New Year — the results of changes at Kent County Recycling and Education Center. Many of the recycling items collected within Allegan County goes to the Recycling and Education Center to get sorted and bailed to be sold to recyclers as a commodity in the recycling market.
Plastic bags create operational challenges at recycling sorting centers, including shutdowns from the bags tangling around machinery and contamination of the bags and other materials. The best thing for plastic bags is to:
- · Try not to use them whenever possible
- · Recycle them at an grocery store
- · Find other uses for them
Shredded paper at the facility is often too small to get detected and sorted accordingly. Only shred confidential documents that have to be shredded then put them in the trash.
For details regarding residential recycling services, contact the resource-recovery coordinator, Rosemary Graham at rgraham@allegancounty.org. To stay updated on Allegan County’s resource-recovery program, visit allegancounty.org.
