Beverage container qualms
After working almost two month with the RCA I have had to deal with almost 9000 aluminum cans, 6750 plastic bottles and 1200 juice boxes. I feel now is a good time to give a PSA.
DO:
-Remove caps.
This will allow the containers to dry, making them less gross
-Rinse the containers!
Milk jugs from January smell so rank when we try to crush them down. Pre-rinse and crush your milk jugs!
-Finish your drink! (we've dealt with so much half full grossness)
DON'T:
-Put stuff in the containers.
We've found countless cigarette butts, gross paper towels, even a razor blade.
-Crush the cans. We've gotten complains that BCMB won't take them, so it'll piss the depots off.
-Don't buy bottled water!
Try and buy as little single use containers in general. We deal with so much, and that's not even close to how much the ABCRC warehouse (Where all your beverage containers go) sees in a day. Give us a break! The recycling system is good, but it's still using a lot of energy to turn all this semi-waste into new products.
That is all :)
DO:
-Remove caps.
This will allow the containers to dry, making them less gross
-Rinse the containers!
Milk jugs from January smell so rank when we try to crush them down. Pre-rinse and crush your milk jugs!
-Finish your drink! (we've dealt with so much half full grossness)
DON'T:
-Put stuff in the containers.
We've found countless cigarette butts, gross paper towels, even a razor blade.
-Crush the cans. We've gotten complains that BCMB won't take them, so it'll piss the depots off.
-Don't buy bottled water!
Try and buy as little single use containers in general. We deal with so much, and that's not even close to how much the ABCRC warehouse (Where all your beverage containers go) sees in a day. Give us a break! The recycling system is good, but it's still using a lot of energy to turn all this semi-waste into new products.
That is all :)
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