The next time you get junk mail, you may not have to toss it in the trash can.
In Bbloomsburg you can now throw it in the recycling bin.
There is certainly a lot of stuff that can go into the bins at the Bloomsburg Recycling Center.
Until now, junk mail and cereal boxes were considered trash. These days, manager Charlie Fritz said, they are recycleables.
"It's called mixed paper for a reason because it's all that stuff people had before that we couldn't accept in our office paper or corrugated cardboard box mix," said Fritz.
In just one month, Fritz and his coworkers, six of them total, decided to fill up two bins with all the mixed paper they could. It included stuff like junk mail. They realized in the end, they have enough to recycle that will make an impact on the environment.
"There's over one-and-a-half tree's growth of paper generated through junk mail to each household each year," added Fritz.
So exactly what qualifies as mixed paper?
There is the junk mail and envelopes, phonebooks and shoe-boxes, all the packaging that Martha Buckley used to throw out.
"I would consider it, to sort out the junk mail. But I think it's wonderful they can get money for it, and anything they save from the landfill is awesome," said Buckley.
Matt Maris just moved to town and has not received any mail yet. Now that the recycling center is taking all the mixed paper products, Maris said it is just another way recycling is made easy.
"It's always fun to weed through the junk mail. No mail so far, looking forward to plenty of junk mail to tear up and bring here, it will be nice," said Maris.
In Bbloomsburg you can now throw it in the recycling bin.
There is certainly a lot of stuff that can go into the bins at the Bloomsburg Recycling Center.
Until now, junk mail and cereal boxes were considered trash. These days, manager Charlie Fritz said, they are recycleables.
"It's called mixed paper for a reason because it's all that stuff people had before that we couldn't accept in our office paper or corrugated cardboard box mix," said Fritz.
In just one month, Fritz and his coworkers, six of them total, decided to fill up two bins with all the mixed paper they could. It included stuff like junk mail. They realized in the end, they have enough to recycle that will make an impact on the environment.
"There's over one-and-a-half tree's growth of paper generated through junk mail to each household each year," added Fritz.
So exactly what qualifies as mixed paper?
There is the junk mail and envelopes, phonebooks and shoe-boxes, all the packaging that Martha Buckley used to throw out.
"I would consider it, to sort out the junk mail. But I think it's wonderful they can get money for it, and anything they save from the landfill is awesome," said Buckley.
Matt Maris just moved to town and has not received any mail yet. Now that the recycling center is taking all the mixed paper products, Maris said it is just another way recycling is made easy.
"It's always fun to weed through the junk mail. No mail so far, looking forward to plenty of junk mail to tear up and bring here, it will be nice," said Maris.
