If your recycling center is like mine, they allow you to leave the labels on steel and aluminum cans for recycling.
But… those labels are recyclable paper. And they’re usually easy to remove unless wet or soiled.
Try adding to your paper recycling by removing clean food labels from cans when possible.
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4 opinions for One Small Step: Remove Labels on Cans
Wendy
Jul 21, 2008 at 8:59 am
The bad part is around here only newspaper and cardboard are recycable
Muthering Heights
Jul 21, 2008 at 11:21 am
As crazy as it sounds, that never occurred to me! Thanks for pointing out the obvious! :)
Peggy
Jul 21, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Wendy, no paper recycling? Oh, no…
Muthering Heights, I know. It’s the simple things we overlook. : )
Jodi Plume
Jul 21, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Hmm I never thought to do this either. We don’t use many can products anyways, but what we do I’ll be sure to remove labels now. Thanks for the tip Peggy!
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