Wisconsin City Begins Plastic Bag Recycling Program

The city of Madison, Wisconsin’s Streets Division announced the start of the city’s plastic bag recycling program. The program will start with nine sites, with four more sites to be added in the near future.

 

Through the program, most clean plastic bags are banned from disposal in Madison refuse carts and dumpsters.
"We are very pleased to get this program started," said George Dreckmann, Madison’s recycling coordinator. "We hope that Madison residents will take advantage of the new program and recycle as many of their plastic bags as possible."

In addition to plastic grocery bags the new program will take the following plastic bags: most plastic bags from retailers, dry cleaning bags, softener salt bags, newspaper delivery bags, ice cube bags, plastic film from beverage cases, and plastic air pillow packaging.

 

Material that will not be taken includes the following: black or dark colored bags, drawstring bags, food wrap, meat wrap, prepackaged produce bags, bags from cereal boxes and buggle wrap.

In addition to the drop off sites in the city, there are at least 21 retailers that recycle bags.