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Originally Posted by CroFlames
This is not accurate. Recycling is a very broad term and has many subcategories. Many recycling operations require a threshold of recyclable material and it doesn't need to be 100%. For example, if you have 1 ton of paper, and 5% of that ton is other material such as plastic or wax, the entire lot is still recyclable.
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Literally, from the OP's article:
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Though two years ago this might have been fine, food waste is now a major problem and can contaminate otherwise perfectly good recyclables. Wash out your jars and bottles before recycling.
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The accompanying picture is a jar with salsa residue.
I'm discussing jars, cans, containers. etc. Not plastic particulates in paper.
If they have a 5% threshold, I'll stand corrected, but from what I see from that article, that's not the case.