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Soft Plastics where should they go?
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April 18, 2009
Bane of my existence, It's the hardest to find a recycler for soft plastic and of course it's the defacto packaging material for almost everything. So while I have managed to diligently carry my own bag for over a year now, and have switched to hemp bags for produce, no longer having your typical exploding plastic bag drawer in my kitchen, I still end up with plastic wrapping for materials such as tofu, cat food and tortilla chips. Where I used to live they did recycle plastic bags such as these, providing they were clean and dry, so no problem. Where I live now they don't, so I have a little collection of clean dry plastic wrapping that I am thinking to either,
A: ship to the nearest recycler, which may be China, lucky it's light or
B: use bundled for insulation.
Anyone else have ideas for plastic wrapping?
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Encouraging
— Jan 06, 2010
I just found out that my local recycling depot is looking into a solution for soft plastics. They are trying to find a route to the plant the will recycle all the flimsy film and packaging I have been collecting. I then heard it from another person they had done so because of my request. I had planted a seed that I guess niggled and grew. I have hung on to my cleaned and dried soft plastic for a year now (it makes up one garbage bag in total), and the word is by spring it should be accepted at the depot. This is encouraging. I don't want to count my eggs before they hatch, but to even hear that my request had spawned some action, even just to inquire makes me feel good.
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