Recycling Bin Contamination

This page was created on behalf of the final project of environment 211 in the fall of 2013. Our goal is to use research to understand the most effective way to promote appropriate recycling behavior. We will demonstrate how social science can be used in communication, psychology, sociology, and economics to change the behavior of individuals who are not recycled or recycled.

We are focusing on the university population and the university campus to use the academic papers of the University of Michigan. We use articles that are not specific to college campuses or even recycling, but they provide valuable advice to promote recycling and help prevent waste contamination.

On our website you will find the main issues in the practice / participation of correct recycling, the surveys we conducted (divided by social science), our recommendations, and more about how the viewers are most effective You can get information. A reference article (article) affecting behavior

If things that can not be recycled are put into recycling, pollution will occur during recycling. Pollution includes everything from raw garbage to plastic bags. Different recycling systems can recycle various materials and consider different materials as contaminants. This makes proper recycling difficult. In order to prevent contamination while effectively recycling it is necessary to understand acceptance of material recovery program and follow these guidelines.

If a certain percentage of the batch is contaminated, the entire batch is considered unusable and is discarded. Therefore, pollution will damage other people's good recycling habits, eventually leading to easy recycling of items that lead to landfill sites.

This site was created by David Henslovitz, Ava Landgraf, Alex Robinson, Karishma Satapathy, Nathan Vellayan.

Laundry or textile products in the garbage can contaminate the flow of recycling consisting only of items (paper, plastic, glass, etc.) used for recycling roadside, clean, no residue. Some clothing items are made from recycled post-consumer materials, but they can not be handled by residential roadside collection systems. When donated or recycled at an appropriate facility, many fabrics may be reused or exchanged at the time of use. If clothing and textiles are in a reusable state, we recommend that you first donate to a local recycling shop. If you need to dispose of old fabrics and clothing, our under station (DOS) is at 2950 E. Ellsworth Road. The bag containing the fabric is recycled. Admission fee of $ 3.000 includes three packages followed by $ 2.00 for each additional package. Ragged clothes, curtains, upholstery, bedding, towels, shoes, soft toys can be put in bags

A plastic bag is by far the worst pollutant in the trash can. Please do not put a plastic bag in the trash box, please do not install any material. Clean and dry empty plastic bags of # 2 or # 4 can be recycled at CHARM or participating grocery stores. The plastic bags collected on the roadside were caught by our sorting equipment, our plan was expensive and was not recycled. Unfortunately, new compostable plastics made from bio-based polymers such as cornstarch are also categorized in this category and are labeled # 7. However, because the compostable plastic ALSO has the initial PLA at the bottom of the recycling mark, it can convey them in addition to oil-related relatives. Some people say "compost". Look carefully at the code, and if you look at it, you can open the container in your COMPOST collection box instead of the recycle bin. PLA can not be recycled, but it can be composted