Single Stream Recycling

Single stream recycling (or commingled recycling) is a process where you place recyclable items in the same bin, dumpster, or trash cart. There’s no need to manually segregate different materials as this happens at the recycling center. It means you can put plastic bottles, newspapers, and soda cans in the same bin and know they’ll be recycled.

Commingled waste recycling materials should be clean and dry before they’re thrown away. They’ll be collected and transported together to a materials recovery facility (MRF) where they’re segregated into their individual material streams. These are then recycled separately as usual. For example, newspapers are removed and recycled with other paper waste.

Some of the materials you can put in a single stream recycling bin are:

• Paper – newspaper, flyers, and envelopes
• Cardboard – boxes, sheets, and packaging
• Plastic – bottles and food packaging
• Aluminum – cans, tins, and foil
• Glass – bottles and jars

Single stream recycling works by collecting different recyclable materials together in the same bin and moving them to a recycling center where they’re separated and processed. As a business, all you need to do is fill each dumpster with relevant recyclable trash and arrange pickup.

How singles stream recycling works can vary slightly depending on the facility where the trash ends up. Generally, this is the single stream recycling process:

• Put recyclable garbage in a commingled recycling bin, such as clean and dry cardboard, paper, glass, metals, and plastics – don’t add any non-recyclable items as it may contaminate the load.
• Collection trucks driven by fully licensed professionals remove the dumpsters at an agreed time and transport them to a materials recovery facility (MRF).
• The waste is unloaded onto a conveyor belt and any non-recyclable waste is removed by employees.
• All the recyclable trash then moves to deck screens where heavy items like glass and metals drop to the bottom and lighter paper and cardboard stay at the top.
• Heavy materials pass under a magnet to separate metal cans and tins.
• Workers sort the lighter waste into categories for paper, cardboard, and newsprint.
• Staff double-check check items are in the correct material stream.
• Finally, waste materials are completely separated and collected in bins, which are transported to recycling centers for processing into new materials.

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