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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
PSA: Plastics recycling in the Twin Cities
Just wanted to spread the word that Eastside Coop in NE Mpls accepts #5 plastics (e.g. yogurt containers) and a wide variety of other plastics that some of our city recyclers may not accept. http://www.eastsidefood.coop/content/plastics-recycling-eastside
I know here in St. Paul, we can't recycle #5 plastics, so I've been washing them and storing them in the basement for years waiting until I could find a place to recycyle them. I heard a rumor that one of the Mpls coops accepted them, so I called around and found out it's Northeast. SO HAPPY to finally have a place to unload these bags of plastics!!
Re: PSA: Plastics recycling in the Twin Cities
This is our coop and I love it!!
They collect them only on Saturdays from 10-2 and Thursday nights from 3-7.
Here's a link to more specifics on what they collect: http://www.eastsidefood.coop/content/plastics-recycling-eastside
I just found out that Whole Foods in St. Paul has a drop-off for #5 plastic (and used Brita filters!) too, and without the limited hours.
http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/st-paul/
I'm kind of ridiculously exicted about this
THIS.IS.AWESOME!
Thanks for passing it on... I've long felt guilty every time I put a #5 in the trash... One of my BF's lives in Chicago and she can recycle her #5's. I've been jealous of that! (Such a dumb thing to be jealous of!)
I recently did some poking around and found this place, too:
http://search.earth911.com/location/4VGAmRGZ/?what=%235+Plastic+%28Polypropylene%29&where=55122&max_distance=25&country=US&province=MN&city=Saint+Paul®ion=Dakota&postal_code=55122&latitude=44.8032942269&longitude=-93.1990338294&list_filter=all
It looks like they'll go up to #7.
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Very cool--I'm so glad there are a few different options around the cities. I think some of the suburbs here have #5 etc. curbside recycling... it's always seemed strange to me that they have it in the 'burbs and not here in St. Paul. That said, they seem to be expanding recycling options over time, so maybe someday we'll have this curbside option too!
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That only works though if your recycling company actually accepts everything that you put in there. Otherwise the extra costs of separating things out drives up the cost of recycling, and the items that they aren't set up to accept just end up in the waste stream anyway (so you'd be better off throwing it away yourself and saving them the costs).
Some of the metro area recycling programs DO accept a wide variety of plastics (I think this is true of Shoreview, for example), and they don't require any sorting. But at least here in St. Paul, we're more limited in what plastics Eureka Recycling can accept--just #1 and #2 plastic bottles...
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Yeah, it has to do with the fact that all of these different kinds of plastics have different chemical components, and different facilities are dedicated to the processing of the different kinds of plastics. They can't all be broken down in the same way. So different plastics have to be shipped off to different facilities to be recycled... and the economics of what's feasible/viable for different recycling collection companies differs from region to region. It's weird, though, that it differs so much even just within the metro area. I mean, I'm really super grateful for the curbside recycling that we do have, but it will be GREAT when an even broader array of items can be curbside-recycled, because curbside recycling is what get's the majority of people on-board with recycling...