Thinking of putting those plastic bags in recycling? Don’t. The Ocean County Recycling Center will not accept any recycled material or trash in plastic bags. It’s not up to Lakewood Public Works to determine what is acceptable; and when a load contains plastic bags, it is rejected, costing the township and taxpayers a lot of money to remove the unwanted materials.
Keep the following plastic items out of the yellow recycle containers:
No plastic bags, cups, plates, or silverware
No plastic food storage containers or lids
No plastic fast food containers
No plastic cafeteria or microwave trays
No plastic bottle caps and jar lids (plastic or metal)
No plastic six-pack holders
No plastic wrap, shrink wrap, and stretch film plastic
No caps, lids, pumps
If you are not sure if something should go in recycling (the yellow recycling can), call Lakewood Public Works Code Enforcement Supervisor Bob Treval at 732-905-3405 Ext. 6013.
This means that every can and bottle has to be put individually into the garbage can? And every bottle has to have its cap removed?
YES!!! (been doing it for years)
I never knew most of this. Maybe they can make stickers depicting what should and shouldn’t go in.(NYC recycling stickers show this info). It will save lots of time and money.
Or, you could print this out !! Now you have all the info. you need !!
I never knew this as well until reading this on TLS site. Thanks!
what about wood?
can the public works put up a PDF version of the recycling guide so we can print it out?
You have all the info. you need in this article !!
@oops, exactly!!! Most of us don’t know the inside and outside.of recycling, just the basic idea of it. Proper education would.help us all, maybe a flyer in the mail with all the details. Thank you
Not necessary to spend money on flyers !! All the info. you need is in this article !!
I just put everything in the green containers. If you put something that doesn’t belong in the yellow container, the garbage men will throw it ion the floor and create a big mess. They make it so hard to want to recycle. In NYC all recycling is in plastic bags. It’s not reasonable to expect someone to run outside each time he has a bottle to throw out . If you make it too hard to recycle, no-one will recycle!
well said! if trashing the magazines that get delivered weekly, am i supposed to remove the plastic wrapper first?
If you make recycling hard no one will do it, people will just order more green cans. When will people realize that the only one making money in recycling is the privet company running the Recycle Center.
I put my recycling in a shopping bag and when it’s full I take it out, dump the cans and bottles in the yellow can and then throw the bag out in the green. Not so hard.
My parents keep a small garbage can on their back porch and then dump that into the yellow can.
It’s pretty easy to do.
Almost everything on the list that we can’t recycle should be recycled it’s only not recycled because it’s too hard for the recycle company to do It.
When it comes to doing something good for the environment for some odd reason they have to make it very difficult to .
If a plastic bag is found 35,000 feet deep at the bottom of the ocean why shouldn’t I recycle it?
Oh and isn’t soda bottles and plastic bags both plastic?
Make it harder to recycle, and no one will do it.
The township makes $25k/year for recycling. It’s one big joke. There is huge overhead to run a recycling dept, for a small return of $25k.
They should put an end to it. Simple – paint all yellow cans green.
NYC used to have similar rules. Under Bloomberg it changed. He said that the city’s recycling can handle all types of plastic so now all plastics (except for styrofoam) can go into recycling.
So basically recycling is a waste excepting for cardboard unless you waste your time removing bottle caps jar covers and bringing each piece out to the bin by hand so basically throw everything in the green can except for cardboard
Hunch painting yellow cans green is a waste of money just consider yellow cans trash
The recycling system is a big mess.
At this point only recycle cardboard- all others will lead to confusing.
I also agree to the circulars. They don’t even make it into our house- no one will separate the plastic cover.
Either stop the program altogether or stop complaining.
Recycling is changing all across the country due to China current tariff issues. They will no longer accept our recycling. I live in an area that has had recycling for 30 years and is not dependent on China to reuse our plastic waste, so things aren’t changing much.