Following the opening of its new material recovery facility (MRF) in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this summer, Rumpke Waste & Recycling will expand the recyclables it accepts to include clamshell plastic ...

Plastic takeout food containers are no longer being accepted for recycling and must be thrown out, Whatcom County’s waste hauler said in a social media post last week. Such containers include the ...

When Whatcom County residents learned recently that trash and recycling hauler Sanitary Service Co. wasn’t accepting clamshell containers anymore, the folks at Ridwell, a waste reduction and recycling ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland company up has come up with a way to deal with those plastic to-go containers often called "clamshells." They are no doubt a headache. You can't put them in curbside ...

Iowa City will no longer accept plastic clamshell containers for recycling, both at the curb and at the city-run recycling centers. Recycling Coordinator Jane Wilch wrote in an email to The Daily ...

Why it is possible to recycle soda bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate plastic, but not the ubiquitous clamshell containers made of the same stuff? —Not Happy as a Clam My last two columns were ...

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Take note Toronto, you can now toss that blueberry container in a blue bin. The city's Public Works and Infrastructure committee is moving ahead with a plan to recycle "clamshell containers" — like ...

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