{"id":730,"date":"2008-12-04T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=730"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:48:18","slug":"recycling-just-gets-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2008\/12\/recycling-just-gets-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling just gets easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from our friends at the county:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOrange County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Drop-Off Recycling System Now Easier to Use<\/p>\n<p>Beginning the week of December 8th, all cans, bottles, jugs and jars recycled at County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ten drop off sites can be recycled together. Recyclers will no longer have to separate each color of glass bottle, metal cans and plastic bottles, jugs and jars. Instead they can all be dumped together into the large blue recycling containers.\u00c2\u00a0 This change, known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153commingling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will also apply to 150 bars, restaurants and other businesses that are now part of the County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commercial recycling program.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Recycler Peter Laramore, who uses the recycling drop-off site at University Mall said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will be super convenient to not have to separate!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 The county hopes it will increase efficiency too.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Taylor, Orange County Recycling Programs Manager said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Orange County wants to make its drop-off collection program more efficient and easier for the citizens.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 When we made this change for our curbside and multifamily recycling programs we found that collection became about 25% more efficient and that the amount of material recycled increased as well. The change will reduce the number of times collection must take place from our drop-off sites. In the past, it was typical for the plastic bottles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sections of the large blue containers at drop-off sites to fill well before the other sections; now the containers can remain on-site until the whole container is full, rather than hauling only partly full containers when one section is full.\u00c2\u00a0 The same is true for roll carts at businesses.\u00c2\u00a0 Staff and truck time saved as a result of these changes can be devoted to\u00c2\u00a0 expanding collection programs to more businesses.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>County staff will inspect the loads mixed cans, bottles, jugs and jars for contaminants when they are dumped and accumulated into 120 yard tractor trailer loads thus improving the materials\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 quality before it is shipped out to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) where the material is sorted. The larger loads also reduce the number of trips to recycling processors. The County sends its mixed recyclables to a material recovery facility in Greensboro, FCR Recycling, for processing and receives varying revenues per ton for the mixed cans and bottles delivered there.\u00c2\u00a0 The amount of revenue received fluctuates with market value for cans and bottles as well as the cleanliness of the loads; the fewer contaminants, the higher the revenue.\u00c2\u00a0 So, even though recyclers no longer have to separate their recyclables, all other rules still apply such as No plastic bags, plastic bottles and jugs only, No dishes, plates, ceramics, or mirror glass, glass bottles and jars only.<\/p>\n<p>After operating a source-separated program for over twenty years, Orange County is following the national trend in its shift to collecting commingled cans and bottles and selling them for processing at a central location.\u00c2\u00a0 In June 2005, the County converted its curbside programs to commingled cans and bottles from curbside sorting of all materials, and the multifamily program followed in July 2007.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall, this approach appears to be a more efficient and cost-effective than the traditional source separated approach as sorting equipment and techniques improve and labor and fuel costs for collection increase, and it increases the ease of recycling for the citizens and for the collectors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from our friends at the county: Orange County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Drop-Off Recycling System Now Easier to Use Beginning the week of December 8th, all cans, bottles, jugs and jars recycled at County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ten drop off sites can be recycled together. Recyclers will no longer have to separate each color of glass bottle, metal cans and plastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}