It is a program that converts hard to recycle plastics into energy.
Hefty orange energy bag.
Plastics collected through the program will be sorted at a local recycling facility and converted into energy used in cement production.
Designed to complement current recycling efforts the hefty energybag program establishes a way to collect otherwise hard to recycle plastics like candy wrappers and foam to go containers at curbside and uses them as valued resources.
Step 3 collected with recycling the filled bags will be picked up with your normal recycling and then converted into useful resources like energy fuel and durable building materials.
Participating households collect hard to recycle plastics in the official hefty energy bag orange bags.
The hefty energybag program provides participating residents a new way to collect plastics that are not accepted as loose items in the blue recycle cart like plastic bags plastic films and dairy tubs and converts them into a valuable energy resource rather than sending them to the landfill.
The filled bags will be picked up with your normal recycling and then converted into useful resources like energy fuel and durable building materials.
To learn more about the program and how your community can get involved browse the tabs to the left.
Non plastic items should not be placed in the orange bags such as food waste paper glass and metals.
Once filled tie the official hefty orange bag and place in your recycling along with your normal recycling.
A good rule of thumb is that if it is a rigid or hard plastic it.
Once filled tie the official hefty orange bag and place in your recycling along with your normal recycling.
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Remember no metal paper or 1 plastics are accepted in the energybag.
Remember the hefty energybag program does not replace your current curbside recycling program.