One Small Step: Remove Labels on Cans
July 21, 2008 by Peggy
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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The bad part is around here only newspaper and cardboard are recycable
As crazy as it sounds, that never occurred to me! Thanks for pointing out the obvious!
Wendy, no paper recycling? Oh, no…
Muthering Heights, I know. It’s the simple things we overlook. : )
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!