In case Saturday's story on two heavy-hitter metro-area recyclers left you wondering, Minneapolis isn't ready yet to add items such as plastic tubs to its recycling collections.
Colleague Kevin Giles wrote that the recyclers are now accepting plastics with the recycling numbers 3 through 7. But the city hasn't yet renegotiated its recycling processing contract with Allied Waste Services, according to Deputy Director of Public Works Heidi Hamilton, so don't put those items out yet.
The city mainly collects plastic bottles with a neck. Its web site for recycling says that other plastic items such as tubs, buckets or jars are of lower-quality plastic and are tough to sort. But that's obviously changed. Hamilton said an amendment with Allied will be pursued. The city is also considering a switch from its current seven-sort recycling protocol to sorting recycleables into one or two containers.
However, numbers 3 through 7 plastics may be recycled during certain hours at Eastside Food Co-op, 2551 Central Av. NE, Visit this site for more details.
