Outagamie County Recycling Center The facility, which opened in 2009, serves three counties – Winnebago, Outagamie and Brown, 65 communities and over 200,000 households. Through the years they have steadily increased the service area and tonnages. During 2010, the first full year of operation, they processed 46,000 tons of recyclables. In 2013, more than 80,000 tons was processed, a 74% increase in just three years. Increasing the business service area has allowed the center to utilize the capital investment of the facility by implementing a full-time second shift. The two shifts employ nearly 60 people, many of them from Valley Packaging. Dos and Donts of Recycling: Do accept #1 plastic bottles such as water and soda bottles. #2 plastic bottles and jugs such as milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles. Do not accept plastic bags, wrap or film (they jam up the equipment), no motor oil bottles, no Styrofoam (bad stuff, don’t use it if can avoid it). Remove all caps and lids and discard (really important. If left on can keep the plastic bottles from being recycled.), rinse bottles and jugs. Do accept aluminum cans and bottles, steel, tin and bi-metal cans, empty aerosol cans (but none that had pesticide or poison in them). Do not accept aluminum pans or foil or any empty paint cans. Guidelines – rinse cans and bottles. Discard plastic caps from aerosol cans. Do accept cardboard, paperboard (cereal box), newspaper, junk mail and office paper, phone books, magazines, catalogs, shredded paper (put in brown paper bag and staple shut). Do not accept tissue paper or paper contaminated by food or grease. Flatten and cut cardboard to no larger than 3’ x 3’. Do accept food and beverage glass bottles and jars. Do not accept windows, ceramics or china. Rinse bottles and jars, metal caps and lids should be recycled. Discard plastic caps and lids. Most of the paper that is recycled in the facility is sold to local paper companies to reuse. Plastic bags can be recycled at your local grocery store or Wal-mart. Recycling keeps an incredible amount of material out of our landfill making our landfill last much longer and saving money. The materials that are recycled by the Tri-County facility are sold to companies to make into new products which conserves natural resources. Fifty percent of the things we throw away could in fact be recycled. Let’s all make an effort to increase the amount we are recycling to reduce the amount of material that goes into our landfill. Its good business and good for our communities.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:25:52 +0000
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