[jklfairwin]

The unfortunate fact is that there is no market to support recycling. Over 80% of "recyclable" material sent to "recycycle" is simply sent on to the landfill. The packaging and plastic industries are making making a fortune out of conning people into believing that recyclables are actually being recycled.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Vikingjunior

I don’t understand this new policy, what are we supposed to do with soda cans and cardboard like pizza boxes?

Put them in the trash with everything else.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by carenrn1

The new trash/recycling program begins tomorrow October 1st. The recycling program was not profitable and caused many headaches for the workers/companies involved. Now everything will go to a burning facility called Corvana. Our burned trash/recycling will go to Duke Energy to be used as electricity. All your trash/recycling will go into one bag, any color but red can be used. Red is a biohazard bag. I use the black lawn/leaf bags. I called this week and you can use up your clear recycling bags also. There are 2 days the trash will be picked up e.g. Monday and Thursday which are my days. If your 2 days of pickup are changing a notice on your front door will be attached. If you don't get this notice your 2days of pickup remain the same. Your yard waste goes into the same large paper bags and will also be picked up on the same 2 days your trash bags are picked up. You can go to districtgov.org to find out more information. Sumter Sanitation is 352-748-0109.

We still have to use the paper bags for yard waste? I was planning to use the plastic bags for yard waste. It is so much easier when the yard waste is wet (such as weeds that are pulled after a heavy rain. The wet ground makes it so much easier to remove the weeds). The paper bags would break at the bottom. I have never had to use paper bags for yard waste before moving to The Villages. All yard waste was always put in large black yard waste bags.

[coffeebean]

Reading the official brochure from Sumter County, it states, "lawn clippings and similar yard waste should be placed in bags". It does not say paper bags but just "bags". I take that to mean plastic bags are OK to place yard waste in.

[Paper1]

Trash to energy sounds so wonderful. My former life was 40 years in paper manufacturing so somewhat familiar with recycle, at least in that industry. The plant processing this single stream waste needs paper fiber to produce the energy it sells. It burns quickly and hot. Recycle paper cost more to produce than paper made with virgin fiber so it quickly lost its luster in the US market place. That said it is a shame to burn this fiber at a time when demand for packaging and shipping board is exploding. Americans are “green” until they have to pay for it. I’d be curious what the recycle percentage is of Daily Sun stock. Newsprint lends itself to using recycle fiber, some are actually 100% recycle but difficult to produce.