Recycle Your Plastic BagsThe Stanford Recycling Center is now accepting plastic bags for recycling. Please place plastic grocery or merchandise bags, dry cleaning bags, and bubble wrap in the MIXED PAPER bins on campus. Yes - we want to collect clean plastic bags and bubble wrap in the mixed paper bins on campus so that it will stay dry and contaminate free. We will separate it from the paper when the material is on our sortline. Alternatively you can drop of the material at one of four drop-off points on campus :
What can be recycled as plastic bags?
To be sure this plastic bag recycling program is successful, please place only the types of bags requested and remove all receipts, other packaging material, and any food residue. It does not matter if there is no recycling symbol or a certain number inside chasing arrows on the bag. They can all be placed in the bin.
Plastic bags cannot be recycled with rigid containers because they have a different melting point. The plastic bags melt very quickly compared to rigid containers and therefore cannot be used in the same products.
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The plastic bags we are collecting will be used to make a new siding product in residential and commercial construction.
Plastic bags can also be used to make plastic lumber for decking, outdoor furniture, and lawn edging.