Black Plastic Goes In Garbage

?️ Rigid black plastic packaging — like food trays, plant pots, and containers — belongs in your garbage cart.
Most recycling facilities, like the Victorville Materials Recovery Facility, use machines that “read” materials with infrared light — but black plastic absorbs that light, so the machines can’t see it and it just gets tossed with trash at the sorting center.
Learn more about how tricky plastic recycling can be at ? https://urecycle.org/mobius/mobius/blog/why-plastic-recycling-isnt-so-simple/