Can used paper plates be recycled with other paper products such as newspapers?
Usually you can recycle paper plates with other paper. The package of paper plates you buy, should tell if they are recycle friendly, which they usually are. It depends though, how your local waste managing company runs the local garbage and recycling system. You should ask them or the city garbage department. Back in Sweden where i’m from we didn’t mix different type of recycling. We even separated news paper from other paper and cardboard. There are many different recycling systems out there. Seems like most recycling contractors in the Seattle area, like Smurfit Stone, Waste Management and Waste Connections, pick up a recycle mix on the curb, then they bring it to a facility, where they kind of semi-automatic/manually sort some part of the recycle mix. After sorting it goes to baling and out loading, and shipped to regional paper mills. I big part of recycle mix get loaded into empty containers that have to be shipped back to Asia (China). Some companies do a better sorting job than
Yes they can. Whenever you recycle paper products you can put them all together. You can read more about paper recycling here: http://www.greenstudentu.com/Paper.aspx Good luck!
