With only one week until Christmas, it won't be long before we're enjoying holiday meals with family, opening presents, and generating a lot of trash.
If you want to do something good for the environment and recycle this holiday season, make sure you know what should go in that recycling bin and what should stay out.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is reminding everyone that you can help keep costs down and machinery running properly by recycling only what is accepted at material recovery facilities, or MRFs.
Too often, items like garbage bags, sticky food containers, hoses, and clothing end up in the facilities and get tangled around the equipment at MRFs.
Be sure you keep the following items out of your recycling bin:
You can and should recycle the following:
You can check with NCDEQ for more helpful tips on what to toss and what to recycle.