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Guidelines for Recycling
Talking Trash
We have two trash bins. The blue bin is for items that can be recycled. The gray bin is for the rest of the garbage. Pick up for the blue recycle bin items is once a week, and for the gray bin items is twice a week.
What can be recycled in Hillsborough County, Florida? The guidelines haven’t changed in years but I still have to sort through our family’s recycle bin each week to pull out items that can’t be recycled. I am constantly reminding my family how to correctly dispose of items and reminding them which items go in which bins. My family thinks I am the Grumpy Garbage Grandma.
The problem is that they believe in recycling. They want items recycled and reused, so they often throw items into the blue recycle container without reviewing the guidelines published by Hillsborough County. They keep telling me, “That can be recycled, grandma”. But, it often can’t be recycled in Hillsborough County.
The guidelines for recycling are clear.
