Yes, this is slightly outside our usual new restaurant openings and shopping center news, but sometimes you publish something as a public service.
Recycling should be a goal for everyone, but what exactly you can recycle is sometimes murky. Styrofoam? Milk cartons? Plastic grocery bags? Pizza boxes? Loudoun County sent out a reminder today in the form of their “Recycling Guide” brochure. The Burn has reproduced it below, page by page, so we can all know — once and for all — what can be recycled and what cannot.
If you’re a hardcore recycler, they also have a list with even more details that goes item by item. You can see that document here.
Thanks so much for the recycling info – very helpful.
Thank you for publishing this document, I may not have seen it otherwise!
I can’t recycle plastic bags? SERIOUSLY??? It sort of makes the whole process worthless. Maybe I’ll just stop recycling altogether.
You can do that at the grocery store
This is what turns people off to recycling. We want cardboard, but not if it’s a pizza box? We want paper, but only if it’s not shredded? So if one piece of cheese is stuck to the pizza box, and that fouls up the entire works? Really?
And my understanding is that if you put all your recycling in a big plastic bag, so it won’t blow all over the neighborhood, they won’t even bother to open it. It just goes into the trash. In Ashburn Village, if I used the recycling and garbage cans they provide, I wouldn’t have room in my garage for anything else!
This is very helpful, thanks! The recycling page on our service provider’s website is somewhat vague, and I’ve tried to reach out to them for details, but no response. This public service announcement clears it up nicely. Much appreciated!
Hopefully this is well distributed and they stick to this. The county seems to constantly change their mind on what they accept and what they don’t. I remember they once said about a year or two ago that you couldn’t recycle laminated boxes like Cereal Boxes, but they don’t even reference that here.
I watch the trash collectors in our community take both trash and recycle cans and dump them into the truck simultaneously. How is that a good recycling program? I’m in Loudoun Valley II
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