by KYW’s Mike DeNardo
People in Collingswood have jumped on board with the borough's new voluntary plastics recycling program.
A truck hauls away Collingswood's first dumpster full of orange juice caps, yogurt containers and other plastics that aren't recycled at curbside as number-one and two plastics are. Borough Commissioner Joan Leonard says in the last month, residents have voluntarily taken their number three-through-seven plastics to a dumpster near the borough's bike share garage:
"The most common items that people are telling me that they're throwing into our dumpster are takeout trays and the containers that plants come in; caps of bottles, yogurt and sour cream containers and other various plastics that doesn't even have a number on it. We'll accept all of that."
Curbside haulers don't have much of a resale market for plastics other than number one or two. Leonard says the plastics that the borough hauls to a recycling firm in Pitman, are plastics that do not have to go to a landfill.
Photo by KYW’s Mike DeNardo
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