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Preguntas
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spinoff to plastic bags
When I have several items that need ot go out to the recycling bin (read: several beer bottles), I put them in a plastic grocery bag.
Are these bags not being recycled?
I will feel like such a tool.
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Posted 8/20/07 1:06 PM  |
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CathyB
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Re: spinoff to plastic bags
I'm in Town of Hempstead and they do not recycle those bags. We get a mailer every January that tells us what we can and can't recycle. Sadly, the list of things they don't recycle is a lot longer that what they do recycle.
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| Posted 8/20/07 1:25 PM |
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MrsMerlot
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Re: spinoff to plastic bags
You should be putting them in the blue or clear plastic bags - the ones "approved" and designated for recycling. Otherwise, we use a specific garbage can for our recycled stuff and don't use a bag at all.
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| Posted 8/20/07 1:46 PM |
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Preguntas
it's pretty precious
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Re: spinoff to plastic bags
Posted by ChrissynRicky
You should be putting them in the blue or clear plastic bags - the ones "approved" and designated for recycling. Otherwise, we use a specific garbage can for our recycled stuff and don't use a bag at all.
Hmmm- I am using grocery bags- is there something I can look for on the bag that will tell me if it's recyclable?
I guess I just assumed since Stop & Shop has a "bag recycle" bin, that they were generally recyclables.
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| Posted 8/20/07 2:31 PM |
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yankinmanc
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Re: spinoff to plastic bags
I use them again, and in that sense I feel like I am recycling them, however our supermarkets have bins for them in the front, so you can dump them there for recycling when you feel like it.
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| Posted 8/20/07 3:18 PM |
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Chatham-Chick
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Re: spinoff to plastic bags
Posted by Preguntas
Hmmm- I am using grocery bags- is there something I can look for on the bag that will tell me if it's recyclable?
I guess I just assumed since Stop & Shop has a "bag recycle" bin, that they were generally recyclables.
off topic a bit, but where do the Stop & Shop stores usually keep the bin for the plastic bags? I've never seen one. 
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| Posted 8/20/07 3:40 PM |
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MrsMerlot
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Re: spinoff to plastic bags
Posted by Preguntas
Posted by ChrissynRicky
You should be putting them in the blue or clear plastic bags - the ones "approved" and designated for recycling. Otherwise, we use a specific garbage can for our recycled stuff and don't use a bag at all.
Hmmm- I am using grocery bags- is there something I can look for on the bag that will tell me if it's recyclable?
I guess I just assumed since Stop & Shop has a "bag recycle" bin, that they were generally recyclables.
Stop & Shop recycles the bags, where they allow other shoppers to use the bags over again...
I would recm'd just throwing cans/glass/aluminium, etc. directly into your bin...or like you said - buying the blue/clear "recycle bags" from the grocery store...and you'll see it where it shows the blue.
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| Posted 8/20/07 3:48 PM |
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Preguntas
it's pretty precious
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Re: spinoff to plastic bags
Posted by ChrissynRicky
Stop & Shop recycles the bags, where they allow other shoppers to use the bags over again...
OOOOhhhhhhhhhh. Wow. That makes sense I guess.
Chatham- I have seen them by th eentrance, in a big bin. The Ronkonkoma one has one, I beleive. Or maybe it was Setauket.
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| Posted 8/20/07 3:53 PM |
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