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The City Responds to My Recycling Dilemma

16th June, 2010 - Posted by carsi - No Comments

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A few weeks ago, I lamented about how there are no places in Austin to recycle aseptic cardboard containers, also known as juice and milk cartons. After I posted that, I emailed the City of Austin to tell them I think they should provide that type of recycling. A little while later, Jessica King, Division Manager of the Solid Waste Services (SWS) Strategic Initiatives Division, sent me an email. She stated that those kinds of containers are made from complex layers of plastic, metal, and paper, and they are therefore pretty difficult and expensive to recycle. For that reason, the city’s current provider of recycling services, Greenstar, does not provide recycling for aseptic containers. She went on to say, “SWS hopes to work with Greenstar or the City’s future recycling processor to incorporate aseptic containers in the Single Stream Recycling Program in the future.” So hopefully we’ll be able to recycle these containers sometime soon! I will keep you updated if I get any more info.