20 NOVEMBER 2012Newjerseyhills.com
Thanksgiving items are now easily recyclable
Edited by : AL CIRCLE
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Many items associated with Thanksgiving dinner, including aluminum products, are now recyclable in the municipalities served by the Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority (MCMUA).
“We’re entering an aluminum-intensive season when many of us are doing lots of holiday cooking,” said Penny Jones, recycling education specialist with the MCMUA. “Now, along with aluminum cans, our curbside recycling program is able to accept other cooking-connected aluminum products as well.”
These items include clean aluminum roasting pans, aluminum pie plates, aluminum trays and aluminum foil, Jones said.
“The key word is clean,” Jones said. “These items must be free of any food residue and should be thoroughly cleaned in hot water with liquid dishwashing detergent so as not to contaminate the aluminum recycling process.”
According to Kathleen Hourihan, the MUA district recycling coordinator, the local towns participating in the MUA’s Curbside Recycling Program are East Hanover, Hanover Township and Morris Plains.
Hourihan said residents may also recycle cardboard packaging used for 6-packs, 12-packs or larger of soda or beer; boxes/cartons for liquid or frozen food such as soup boxes, drink boxes and milk/juice cartons; and plastic containers, both bottles and non-bottles.
The numbers for the plastic containers are found inside the triangular recycling symbol that is stamped on the bottom of plastic containers.
“It is also important to note that plastic items coded #3 V or #6 PS are not to be put into the curbside recycling bin,” Jones said. “They should be put into the trash.”
The recycling containers are to be at curbside the night before the collection day, and the maximum weight of a curbside recycling container and its contents is 50 pounds, Hourihan said.
Both Jones and Hourihan urged all Morris County residents to continue to recycle aluminum cans, steel cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles coded # 1 and # 2, corrugated cardboard, chipboard, junk mail, magazines and newspapers.
“We’re entering an aluminum-intensive season when many of us are doing lots of holiday cooking,” said Penny Jones, recycling education specialist with the MCMUA. “Now, along with aluminum cans, our curbside recycling program is able to accept other cooking-connected aluminum products as well.”
These items include clean aluminum roasting pans, aluminum pie plates, aluminum trays and aluminum foil, Jones said.
“The key word is clean,” Jones said. “These items must be free of any food residue and should be thoroughly cleaned in hot water with liquid dishwashing detergent so as not to contaminate the aluminum recycling process.”
According to Kathleen Hourihan, the MUA district recycling coordinator, the local towns participating in the MUA’s Curbside Recycling Program are East Hanover, Hanover Township and Morris Plains.
Hourihan said residents may also recycle cardboard packaging used for 6-packs, 12-packs or larger of soda or beer; boxes/cartons for liquid or frozen food such as soup boxes, drink boxes and milk/juice cartons; and plastic containers, both bottles and non-bottles.
The numbers for the plastic containers are found inside the triangular recycling symbol that is stamped on the bottom of plastic containers.
“It is also important to note that plastic items coded #3 V or #6 PS are not to be put into the curbside recycling bin,” Jones said. “They should be put into the trash.”
The recycling containers are to be at curbside the night before the collection day, and the maximum weight of a curbside recycling container and its contents is 50 pounds, Hourihan said.
Both Jones and Hourihan urged all Morris County residents to continue to recycle aluminum cans, steel cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles coded # 1 and # 2, corrugated cardboard, chipboard, junk mail, magazines and newspapers.
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