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Originally Posted by Wormius

As for styrofoam. Can't you put that in the blue bins? I thought they just send it off to another facility. That was what I thought the city said.

While Styrofoam is technically recyclable, the demand for it by reprocessors is essentially zero, with no chance of that ever rising. The city saves time and money by asking you to throw it into the black bin, because the styrofoam would simply end up in the landfill anyway.