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Allegan Recycling Halts Plastic Bag & Shredded Paper Acceptance

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If you are involved in recycling in Allegan County, you need to be aware of forthcoming changes in the county’s Resource Recovery Program.

Residents enrolled in the Allegan County Resource Recovery Program have new recycling requirements beginning January 1, 2020. Plastic bags and shredded paper will no longer be accepted after the New Year.

The new requirements are due to changes at the Kent County Recycling and Education Center. Many of the recycling items collected within Allegan County go to the Recycling and Education Center to get sorted and bailed to be sold to recyclers as a commodity in the recycling market.

Plastic bags create operational challenges at recycling sorting centers, including shutdowns from the bags tangling around machinery and contamination of the bags and other materials. The best thing for plastic bags is to:

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  • Try not to use them whenever possible…
  • Recycle them at your local grocery store (such as a Meijer or Walmart)…
  • Find other uses for them…

Shredded paper at the facility is often too small to get detected and sorted accordingly. Only shred confidential documents that have to be shredded then put them in the trash.

A new flyer with these recent changes can be viewed by clicking the link below:

Allegan-County-Recycling-Guide_2020