Recycling: where's it going?

[TheTed]

Mr. RecycleMichael (or anybody else who may know):

The city is accepting a much wider array of recyclables than the MET. The Feed Mr Murph containers are also taking plastics that can't be recycled at MET locations.

So is this stuff actually being recycled? I generally save up plastics that aren't 1 or 2 with necks or handles and drop it off in Dallas or KC when I'm in those cities.

I'd rather get rid of it in Tulsa, but I've heard there's no recycling of most of those plastics in Oklahoma. So are the city trash haulers and the Mr Murph company actually recycling this stuff?

[RecycleMichael]

I can't say for sure. I have never seen any documentation on where they are selling materials. I hope so. I have heard complaints and passed these on to city officials.

I do hope so, but it is hard to trust a recycler who owns a landfill.

[patric]

I do hope so, but it is hard to trust a recycler who owns a landfill.

Making the effort and being disappointed by a result is still going to be better in the long run than not making the effort.
Its just going to require a lot of follow-up.



FYI my new city recycle bin is almost twice the size as my garbage bin.

[Gaspar]

We got our new bins yesterday.  I'm going to have to drink a lot more beer to fill that baby.

[rdj]

We got our new bins yesterday.  I'm going to have to drink a lot more beer to fill that baby.

That's a great line to tell my wife once they finally deliver carts to the NW Quad.

[sgrizzle]

We got our new bins yesterday.  I'm going to have to drink a lot more beer to fill that baby.

Filled mine same day. Had to jump up and down to get the lid to close.

[Gaspar]

Filled mine same day. Had to jump up and down to get the lid to close.

[patric]

I gotta give Gaspar one for that. 

[Gaspar]

I gotta give Gaspar one for that. 

I gotta get a jacket like that!

[tulsa_fan]

I just read a comment somewhere else that the lids are not to be on the recyled bottles?  GRR, I've been putting juice bottles, watter bottles, pop bottles in there with lids on them I'm going to be not happy to drag that crap back out if they don't take it.  What's wrong with the lids? 

[Hoss]

I just read a comment somewhere else that the lids are not to be on the recyled bottles?  GRR, I've been putting juice bottles, watter bottles, pop bottles in there with lids on them I'm going to be not happy to drag that crap back out if they don't take it.  What's wrong with the lids? 

I've been keeping lids on them with no issues.  Called the city in this respect the weekend we got the bins to get the official word (since the label on the bin says something different from the booklet) and got confirmation that the lids stay on.  I've also been putting containers up to recycle number 5 (solo cups are #5) with no issues yet.

[Gaspar]

I've been keeping lids on them with no issues.  Called the city in this respect the weekend we got the bins to get the official word (since the label on the bin says something different from the booklet) and got confirmation that the lids stay on.  I've also been putting containers up to recycle number 5 (solo cups are #5) with no issues yet.

Glass gets crushed and magnetic separator sorts away the ferris lids and other materials.

[tulsa_fan]

OK, thanks!  Mine have been plastic bottles and lids thus far anyway.  I just didn't want to keep doing it wrong and have an entire bin to sort through.

[Hoss]

OK, thanks!  Mine have been plastic bottles and lids thus far anyway.  I just didn't want to keep doing it wrong and have an entire bin to sort through.

then the magnetic resolution wouldn't apply.

[sgrizzle]

Glass gets crushed and magnetic separator sorts away the ferris lids and other materials.