Complaints Reduce Recycling Cart Delay; What Plastic To Recycle?

It seems the Polk County Commission heard enough from their constituents to force Ana Wood, Polk’s waste and recycling director, to back off on her original plan to hold off delivery of additional recycling carts until next year for people who for a variety of reasons didn’t turn in a response card last March.

According to a press release that went out this week, anyone who doesn’t have a recycling cart and asks for one can get it by Nov. 1.

To get a cart—this applies only to residential customers in unincorporated Polk County—email polkwastewise@polk-county.net or call 863-284-4319.

Once you get a cart, you might be confused about what kinds of plastics to put or not put into it.

Below are two photos to help with that.

The top photo shows which kind of plastic container you should recycling under the new rules.

The bottom photo shows what kind of plastic containers you shouldn’t put in your cart.

Happy recycling.

 

 

 

Posted in Group Conservation Issues.