Plastics that will be collected include water, soft drink and shampoo bottles and milk, juice and detergent jugs. They should be reused or discarded with your other trash. Berkeley residents will receive a flyer in the mail the first week of September with instructions for plastic recycling. If yes to both questions, you can recycle it at the curb. Put these plastics in your blue bin along with your glass, aluminum and tin.
Plastic is a difficult material to recycle.
Reducing your consumption of items packaged in plastic and reusing what plastic containers you do buy will help the environment more than adding these bottles into your recycling bin. Buying products in glass and metal containers is preferable to plastic because glass and metal can be recycled over and over. Typically, plastic can be recycled only once into a longer-life product such as lumber before it must be landfilled. Unfortunately, the plastic industry has done very little to recycle the growing amount of plastic waste it creates.