A new pilot project gives King County residents a few more options for where to take those harder-to-recycle plastics.
Have you ever found yourself wondering what to do with plastic packaging film, bubble wrap, plastic shopping bags, and other soft plastics that can’t be recycled in the blue bins at home?
“What is new about this is, we’re working with independent grocers,” said Shari Jackson, director of Plastics Sustainability for the American Chemistry Council, at a press conference announcing the project. “These are the smaller grocers that provide that more convenient access for consumers to recycle the film, but they don’t have these programs.
Once it is collected, the materials will be taken north to Canada, where they will be turned into, in some cases, plastic packaging once again.
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