RecyclingMonster - Waste Management’s residential and commercial single-stream recycling customers in Lackawanna County are not affected by new procedures at the county recycling center.

The Lackawanna County Recycling Center’s ban on co-mingled cardboard and paper products went into effect Monday. Waste Management does not deliver material to the county facility.

“This announcement does not impact Waste Management’s single-stream customers,” said the company’s regional Communications Manager John Hambrose in a news release. “Our single-stream customers can continue recycling their office paper, newsprint, junk mail, paper board and corrugated cardboard, plastic and glass bottles and jars, and aluminum and tin cans in the same container.”

Hambrose said glass bottles and jars and plastic bottles, jars and tubs with the numbers 1, 2 and 5, can be placed in the containers serviced by Waste Management. All recyclables should be free of food waste.

“Contamination continues to be the recycling industry’s biggest challenge,” Hambrose said. “Our customers are reminded that plastic bags and plastic sheeting, greasy pizza boxes, plastic and foam clamshell containers, plastic toys and Christmas lights cannot be recycled.”

Waste Management’s Apex Waste Services of Dunmore collects recyclables from businesses throughout Lackawanna County, from homes serviced under municipal contracts in Dalton and Ransom Township., and through subscription service in Benton, Clifton, Covington, Elmhurst, Glenburn, Greenfield, Jefferson, LaPlume and Madison townships, Moscow, and North Abington, Roaring Brook, Scott, Springbrook, Thornhurst, Waverly and West Abington townships.

Waste Management employs more than 100 environmental professionals at Apex and Alliance Landfill in Taylor.

For more information about recycling, visit wm.com/recycleright.

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