District Encourages Recycling Single-Use Plastic Grocery Bags

NEWS RELEASE

For more information, contact:
Craig Douglass, 501-580-1608;
craig@regionalrecycling.org

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (February 10, 2020) – The Regional Recycling & Waste Reduction District in Pulaski County will begin recycling plastic grocery bags at District Green Stations on March 2, 2020. These plastic items should not go in curbside recycling carts but dropped off at the District’s five Green Stations throughout Pulaski County. (For a list of Green Station locations and days and hours of operation, go to MyDoRight.com.)

“Residential customers in Pulaski County have become more informed on the need to recycle single-use plastic bags like grocery bags,” said Craig Douglass, executive director of the Regional Recycling District. “We encourage our customers to know even more about #4 plastic, and to also understand that these types of plastic grocery bags should not go in the curbside cart, but be collected at home and brought to our Green Stations.”

Grocery bag recycling will be handled by District partner, Natural State Recycling of Little Rock.

The District suggests residential customers keep a separate bin or container in their homes to collect plastic grocery bags. Never put a plastic grocery bag in the curbside cart, but simply drop the contents off at a Green Station for free, and the District will recycle them along with glass, electronics, and household hazardous waste, all of which are collected at Green Stations.

“More single-use plastic may be collected at Green Stations in the future,” Douglass said. “But this March we are starting with plastic grocery bags only to see how receptive customers are to keeping these types of bags out of curbside carts and out of landfills.”

For more information on recycling single-use plastic grocery bags, go to MyDoRight.com.