The lucky 13 are then turned into new products for us to use. Believe it or not, plastic bottles are even being made into park benches and cozy fleece jackets. These items become the unlucky 13 when people throw them away and they add to the mountains of waste that already fill up landfills. They can all be recycled as part of Wisconsin s Lucky 13 items listed below that are not allowed in our landfills. Each of these items can be made into new products for us to use instead of taking up space in a pile of junk somewhere.
Some communities have incinerators and have special recycling rules.
Your community may recycle even more than what is listed here for Wisconsin. Well, you should, but you're still throwing a lot stuff away. In 1995, the people in Wisconsin threw away 3 million tons of trash. 3 million tons of trash is enough to pile a typical city street 5 feet deep, from curb to curb, for over 200 miles. That's the distance from Milwaukee to Rhinelander.