Contamination is the number one challenge in recycling success. Contamination changes recyclable items from being a raw material used to make something new (the actual act of recycling) to garbage. Your impact works like waves. If you place clean, contaminant-free material in the bin your recycling improves the quality of all other material being processed. If you place dirty, unacceptable items in your bin your recycling can reduce the quality of all other material being processed at the materials recovery facility (or simply cause it to become trash)

Below are some of our most common offenders - please keep these OUT!