Yes, thin plastic bags are very bad for typical processing machines. They take them at grocery stores so they can be a different stream. Although I have my doub

Yes, thin plastic bags are very bad for typical processing machines. They take them at grocery stores so they can be a different stream. Although I have my doubts that much recycling is actually done with them there too. Putting things in recycling that aren't explicitly accepted by your local facility is bad. Never put things in that aren't marked, and definitely not thin unmarked stuff. It increase the costs by gumming up processing equipment if they try to do something with it. And likely does just shunt the whole section over to the landfill. Although most of the stuff probably ends up there anyways. Same thing with greasy pizza boxes, they just taint the load.