Foil lined plastic packaging items, such as chip bags and protein bar wrappers, can not be recycled at our facility. Before multi-layered films can be reground or remelted, the different layers have to be separated. This is energy intensive and expensive processes limits the number and scope of collection programs. If you're interested in recycling this material TerraCycle US can offer some solutions.
Don't Throw Your Chip Bags in the Recycling Bin
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Remember those ear-damagingly loud Sun Chip bags? They were a massive eco-friendly effort to be the first 100% compostable potato chip bag—and were swiftly ditched after complaints that the bags wer...