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Single Stream Recycling - An Easier Way to Recycle!
Through a joint partnership with the Broward County School Board and Broward County’s Recycling and Contract Administration Division (RCAD) of Waste of Recycling Services, public schools will now be able to take part in a convenient way of collecting their recyclables in schools and departments known as “single-stream” recycling.
Students, teachers and staff will no longer have to sort their recyclables by paper, bottles and cans; they can all be recycled in the same bin!
Each classroom/office will be able to utilize one recycling container and under the new “One for All and All IN One” system. All recyclables collected in classrooms/offices can be placed into the same recycling containers, collection carts, or recycling dumpsters.
The switch from sorting to single-stream should prove an easy task, since many county residents have also been able to participate in the County’s “All In One” residential single-stream recycling system since last year. Although schools and departments have always been able to place paper, cardboard, bottles and cans in the same recycling dumpster, this will be the first time that students, teachers and staff will be able collect single-stream in the classroom/office.
Items That Can Be Mixed & Recycled Together:
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Office paper, newspapers, inserts, catalogs, magazines, junk mail, office paper, soft-covered books, file folders, soda cartons, and crushed boxes, including tissue boxes and those from such food items as cereal, rice and pasta
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Flattened cardboard and paperboard such as tissue boxes
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Aluminum and steel food and beverage containers (please make sure to rinse containers)
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Narrow-neck plastic bottles, such as water and soda bottles (remove lids)
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Please make sure that ALL items listed above are put into CLEAR bags!!!
Items That Do Not Go Into Your Recycling Container(s):
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Black bags (black bags are automatically considered solid waste and it or anything in it will not be processed as recyclables)
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Garbage including food scraps, pizza boxes and miscellaneous plastics such as toys and cups and plastic bags
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School yard waste and plant debris
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Electronic items, including computers, televisions and monitors
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Hazardous waste, including motor oil, paint, pesticides and household cleaners
Students, teachers and staff are asked to help keep recycling containers free of contaminants by only placing acceptable recyclables into recycling containers.
For more information on schools recycling program or to request supplies (bins and clear recycling bags), please contact the Public School Recycling Hotline at (954) 474-1868 or e-mail at schoolsrecycle@broward.org.
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