{"id":2208,"date":"2021-11-02T19:04:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quinterecycling.org\/film-plastics\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T19:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:04:37","slug":"film-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quinterecycling.org\/film-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Are Film Plastics?<\/h4>\n

Film plastics are a few different things when it comes to the world of recycling. These include grocery bags, plastic bags on the roll for your loose produce, bread bags and potting soil\/fertilizer bags for example.<\/p>\n

Why Are They At Risk?<\/span><\/h5>\n

In June of 2020 most recycling programs removed this material from their collection. Why? Because film plastics are placed at the curb dirty, or is the wrong type of material. Both lead to ‘contamination’ and cannot be sold to reproducers of film plastics. We are seeing an alarming amount of contamination in our collection, and the materials are unsellable which means they end up in landfill. As with all other recyclable materials, they need to be clean.<\/p>\n

What’s The Problem?<\/span><\/h5>\n

In 2019 when China shut its doors to receiving recycling from North America, the competition became stringent for the recycling markets. While Quinte Waste Solutions has been fortunate to keep all of our material purchasers domestic, other recycling facilities had to send their materials overseas. With no oversea markets now available those recycling facilities were left to find new North American markets. With the competition being incredibly competitive, that meant recyclable materials needed to be top-notch in order to beat out the competition.<\/p>\n

What’s The Good News?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Thankfully we are still able to accept film plastics!<\/p>\n

We can accept:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n