Hefty Orange Energy Bags

Participating households collect hard to recycle plastics in the official hefty energy bag orange bags.

Hefty orange energy bags.

A good rule of thumb is that if it is a rigid or hard plastic it. Plastics collected through the program will be sorted at a local recycling facility and converted into energy used in cement production. Non plastic items should not be placed in the orange bags such as food waste paper glass and metals. What are the o range hefty energy bags.

After being collected and pulled off at the recycling facility the hefty energybag orange bags will be converted into a valuable resource using various plastics to energy technologies. 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. To learn more about the program and how your community can get involved browse the tabs to the left. 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.

Once filled tie the official hefty orange bag and place in your recycling along with your normal recycling. Remember the hefty energybag program does not replace your current curbside recycling program. Hefty energy bag is a unique program designed to convert previously non recycled plastics into energy. The hefty energy bag program is a groundbreaking initiative that collects hard to recycle plastics and converts them into useful energy resources.

Remember no metal paper or 1 plastics are accepted in the energybag. 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.