Syracuse, NY -- The board of directors of the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency voted 8-0 Wednesday to approve the addition of No. 5 plastic to the list of mandatory recyclables. County residents immediately can begin putting clean yogurt cups, margarine tubs, cottage cheese containers and other polypropylene containers in their blue recycling bins. OCRRA staff recommended the change...
A front end loader pushes garbage into piles at the tipping floor at the OCRRA waste-to-energy plant on Rock Cut Road. At right, a grapple picks up the garbage to deposit in a second-floor trash bin. Syracuse, NY -- The board of directors of the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency voted 8-0 Wednesday to approve the addition of No. 5 plastic to the list of mandatory recyclables.
County residents immediately can begin putting clean yogurt cups, margarine tubs, cottage cheese containers and other polypropylene containers in their blue recycling bins.
OCRRA staff recommended the change after determining there is a viable market for the material. No. 5 plastic can be recycled into hard plastic items and filaments for technical fabrics.
Recycling No. 5 plastic will keep 500 tons of it out of the trash that ends up being burned at the agency's waste-to-energy plant on Rock Cut Road, in Jamesville.
Here's the background on the decision from a previous story.