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boston plastics
The City has a contract with a local firm, F.W. Russell &
Sons to collect recycling from over 45,000 households, about 100
non-profit organizations and our schools and city buildings. Russell
sends out five recycling trucks daily and from April-December,
one truck for yard waste collection. The recycling trucks are
divided into two different compartments: one for commingles (glass,
plastic and metal containers) and one for paper and cardboard.
When the truck is full, Russell brings the material to FCR-Boston,
a processing plant 2.5 miles from Cambridge in Charlestown where
the material gets weighed, sorted and baled. About 150 recycling
trucks dump material at the facility daily from about 50 communities
in the Boston area.
At FCR-Boston, the processing of recyclables is assisted by advanced
sorting technology. In addition, recycling processing is labor
intensive. This reinforces the importance of properly preparing
your recycling!
None of the recyclable containers are washed at the processing
facility, so dirty recyclables are considered trash. If a recycling
truck is mixed or contains trash, the entire load can be rejected
leading to additional processing costs and more material sent
to landfill or incinerators. This is why it is important that
you rinse out jars, cans and tubs so that the materials are free
from food. In addition, it is equally important to keep your papers
separate from your containers since the truck has separate compartments
and they are going to different sorting areas in the recycling
processing facility.
 Please Contact Us to discuss your boston plastics
needs. You design it, we build it.
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