Really dumb recycling question

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

I'm shredding years worth of old financial docs for recycling but discover that I don't have any paper bags to put the shreds in. I read on the S'ville recycling site a few weeks ago that plastic bags *aren't* supposed to go in recycling. Or at least I thought I read that.

Have I completely got it wrong? Can I put my paper shreds in a plastic trash bag and dump that in my Big Blue Bin?


(see - told you it was a dumb question... )

Comments

[ron_newman]

That page says that ordinary non-rechargeable batteries should go out with trash, not with recycling. Rechargeables have to be disposed of as hazardous waste, not in normal recycling bins.

MIT has a battery recycling bin in the Stata Center lobby, so I sometimes save my batteries up to bring there.

[real-green-tea.livejournal.com]

Oh... right. I totally misquoted info from that page. (Sorry if I confused anyone!)

A bunch of people told me I have to bring household batteries to MIT if I want them recycled. Thank you for letting me know that I can do this at the Stata Center. (The MIT campus is big, and I was just going to bring a handful of leaky batteries down there and wander around till I found a recycling box. Or you know. Ask at the student center or a library. Both of which are kinda far from the Stata Center.)

[ron_newman]

I'm sure MIT has other battery-recycling bins; that's just the one I know about and use. This page says there's another one in the Student Center first floor.

(Whether they want the leaking batteries, I don't know.)