A. Shopping bags, newspaper bags, and dry cleaning bags. Please stuff all the bags into one bag and tie it securely. You can recycle clean, empty plastic bottles, jars, jugs and round dairy tubs. Please put all other plastic items in the garbage, even if they have recycling symbols on them. A word on recycling numbers on plastic items.
Plastic resins have a variety of chemical make-ups.
The numbers 1-7 with recycling arrows around them identify the resins, so that if there are viable markets, they can be sorted as needed. However, the cost of recycling many plastic items exceeds the value of the recycled plastic. Therefore, many plastic items cannot currently be recycled, even though they have recycling arrows on them. It is best to ignore the numbers and remember-recycle plastic bottles, tubs and bags only. Q. I have an old computer I no longer use.