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They're not recyclable. If they're made from recycled paper, their fibres will be too short, like tissue paper or toilet roll. On top of that, people might be
by mattmanser 7y ago
They're not recyclable. If they're made from recycled paper, their fibres will be too short, like tissue paper or toilet roll.
On top of that, people might be using it to wipe anything, which could potentially ruin the rest of the recycling.
If you're putting any of that into your recycling, you're doing it wrong.
Also, do not recycle any paper/cardboard with grease or food contamination, especially pizza boxes with grease on, they will also ruin a recycling run.
- edflsafoiewq 7y agoIME paper towels always go into the regular trash. Is this unsustainable? I thought paper was pretty environmentally sound.
- smolder 7y agoFor paper producers who replant the trees they log, they're actually sinking carbon so that's good. If they don't replace the trees, no bueno.
- cabaalis 7y ago> If you're putting any of that into your recycling, you're doing it wrong. Hence the main problem with recycling. No reasonable person can know all the rules about plastics, what kinds of papers, etc. Why can't sorters sort it all out? Because nobody knows what to pre-sort.
- Qwertystop 7y ago"that" in this case is the sort of things one finds in a bathroom. I don't think a reasonable person would think they ought to sort human waste with recyclable paper.
- _jal 7y agoOh, come on. If you're capable of navigating normal life, you're capable of recycling. What you're saying is that you won't spend five minutes absorbing a one page document. Recology has probably the most complicated arrangement I've had, and, well, this is not exactly rocket surgery: https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/what-goes-where/ https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/what-goes-wh...
- Tempest1981 7y agoNice. What puzzles me is fast-food places with 3 bins (compost, recycling, trash) with these pictures on each -- when instead the pictures should be of the actual containers/wrappers that the restaurant uses. Wouldn't that be more helpful?