Residents may now recycle plastic containers with the #5 symbol at the Nicholson, Galena, Rock Hall, Worton, and Vault Storage recycling locations, as well as in Queen Anne’s county, at the Sparkle Pool location. The containers can be placed in the same bins as those marked #1 and #2 Plastics.
Examples of #5 polypropylene are most yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, and butter tubs. Plastic pill bottles are also predominantly #5 and may be recycled. Many take out food containers have the #5 symbol. Maryland Environmental Services, who manage the recycle bins, ask that residents DO NOT include black take out containers. The sorting machine is currently not able to decipher black. Ask your favorite carry-outs to switch to white- or even better, cardboard containers.
The Chestertown Environmental Committee is still accepting plastic bottle caps – please continue to bring them to their booth at the Chestertown Farmers’ Market, but the committee asks that residents take #5 containers to the county recycle centers. The Environmental Committee will be at the market on Saturday, March 11, and then every Saturday from April through October.
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David Quinn says
I just wondered why plastics and bottles are now in the same bins?
george murphy says
Ok so now you have all this plastic collection….What do you do with it then? Can you tell me the path it takes to the “Recycler” and where are they located? Then where does it go and what products are made with it?
I ask as I don’t believe a fraction of what is collected even sees a Recycler.for the simple reason it’s too expensive to recycle it’s not cost effective when virgin plastic is cheaper.
Most is dumped in to our oceans, put in land fills or incinerated polluting the air. So tell me different?