Concerns about the dangers to our health, and domestic and world affairs may have caused residents to neglect Kendal’s recycling program which is indispensable for the environment, particularly as we’ve been generating huge quantities of paper and recyclable plastics during the pandemic. Ignoring the recycling and sorting requests posted in all trash rooms means rejection of our recyclables at the collection point and incinerating them – something we try to avoid for obvious reasons.
Let’s refresh our memories of how it works.
1. Newspapers, catalogs, clean paper and cardboard go into the PAPER bin in your trash room.
2. All hard plastics with triangles numbered 1 – 7, milk and juice containers, glass bottles and jars, metal cans and lids must be rinsed and placed with other metal objects into the bin labeled MIXED PLASTIC AND METAL.
3. Soiled paper, napkins, pizza boxes, plain and plastic/wax-coated paper cups, silver–lined aluminum tray lids, left-over food, meat scraps, bones, and cheese, household and hygiene items, and empty cans and bottles which contained paint and chemical liquids must be bagged and go into the lidded dumpster marked TRASH. Place broken glass, china and crockery in a separate bag and mark it “Attention Broken Glass.”
When in doubt, deposit items in the TRASH dumpster.
4. If your kitchen sink has a garbage disposal system, use it to grind up egg shells, apple cores, veggie and other food remnants, etc., and run the water while the grinder is activated until the sound indicates there’s nothing left to grind. Please no hard fruit pits, bones, meat products and cheese!