*Here are our family's answers to questions of the week:*
Q1. Who picks up your trash & recyclables? City or a private company? Name?
*City of San Antonio Solid Waste Management Dept. (SWMD), referred to as "City" when we discuss. Their website and resources that are very helpful are:*
*- www.sarecycles.org*
*- App "Recycle-Coach"*
Q2. Visit our City's resources: *www.sarecycles.org* and download phone app, *"Recycle-Coach".* Spend atleast 10 mins going through information. If you use private company, call them & find out if they have any exception to city rules.
Answer "YES" if you did your study/research :)
*YES*
Q3. The company that picks up your trash & recyclables is also known as your "Curbside Recycling" service. True o…
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Poornima
Sep 27, 2020
Meenakshi Chintapalli San Antonio:
Net bags are very useful to wash with chlorine water, dry and reuse. When we put vegetables , fruits all mixed up in the chest and have to separate them. There were days when Zi used to leave beans, okra and all vegetables in the plastic bags we bag them in (20 years ago).
Then I resorted to little plastic baskets
Now these nets are so useful to put each vegetable separately in the net and reuse them than throw them . Carrots, tomatoes, Karelia, mirchi all are in their bags. I like the small net bags that baby potatoes and limes conf in
They can hold club beans, mirchi and beans
I write because I…
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Poornima
Sep 27, 2020
Jwala San Antonio:
How to recycle this? Both mesh & label are recyclable. Should I seperathen because they are different plastic numbers?
Sairam Jwala. Sorry, missed getting to answer your question sooner.
Usually, all the netted bags that I get veggies, fruits, I used to separate net part from the label part. Throw away net & recycle the label part appropriately.
This case, the net is clearly labeled as recyclable material, so I asked city whether to separate & put along with recyclable grocery/plastic bags.
They said, not to recycle any nets! So, I would do same thing I used to do for all other net bags.
Having said that, now, since we use Terracycle to recycle some of our…
Sairam!
*Here are our family's answers to questions of the week:*
Q1. Who picks up your trash & recyclables? City or a private company? Name?
*City of San Antonio Solid Waste Management Dept. (SWMD), referred to as "City" when we discuss. Their website and resources that are very helpful are:*
*- www.sarecycles.org*
*- App "Recycle-Coach"*
Q2. Visit our City's resources: *www.sarecycles.org* and download phone app, *"Recycle-Coach".* Spend atleast 10 mins going through information. If you use private company, call them & find out if they have any exception to city rules.
Answer "YES" if you did your study/research :)
*YES*
Q3. The company that picks up your trash & recyclables is also known as your "Curbside Recycling" service. True o…
Meenakshi Chintapalli San Antonio:
Net bags are very useful to wash with chlorine water, dry and reuse. When we put vegetables , fruits all mixed up in the chest and have to separate them. There were days when Zi used to leave beans, okra and all vegetables in the plastic bags we bag them in (20 years ago).
Then I resorted to little plastic baskets
Now these nets are so useful to put each vegetable separately in the net and reuse them than throw them . Carrots, tomatoes, Karelia, mirchi all are in their bags. I like the small net bags that baby potatoes and limes conf in
They can hold club beans, mirchi and beans
I write because I…
Jwala San Antonio:
How to recycle this? Both mesh & label are recyclable. Should I seperathen because they are different plastic numbers?
Sairam Jwala. Sorry, missed getting to answer your question sooner.
Usually, all the netted bags that I get veggies, fruits, I used to separate net part from the label part. Throw away net & recycle the label part appropriately.
This case, the net is clearly labeled as recyclable material, so I asked city whether to separate & put along with recyclable grocery/plastic bags.
They said, not to recycle any nets! So, I would do same thing I used to do for all other net bags.
Having said that, now, since we use Terracycle to recycle some of our…