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How Contamination Hurts Recycling

Workers sorting contamination from recycling lineGreasy pizza boxes. Food-filled containers. Plastic bags. These might seem harmless, but in your recycling cart it’s a different story. They gum up the works at the recycling facility and make it harder for the good stuff to get recycled.

Read more about recycling contamination on our blog: https://urecycle.org/blog/why-plastic-recycling-isnt-so-simple/

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