Recycling Quality Improvement Program
Why Improving our Recycling Matters
In your curbside recycling, contaminants can have unintended consequences and cause issues in the recycling process. Contaminants are items that can't be recycled - if they are wet or have food residue, they can spoil other materials, reducing the other recyclables' value. Other items like batteries can cause fires, and plastic bags and hoses get tangled in processing machinery. Cleaner recycling helps ensure the materials you work hard to recycle are ultimately able to be recycled. The Recycling Quality Improvement Program is meant to help you make accurate and informed recycling choices and provide personalized recycling feedback.
In your curbside recycling, contaminants can have unintended consequences and cause issues in the recycling process. Contaminants are items that can't be recycled - if they are wet or have food residue, they can spoil other materials, reducing the other recyclables' value. Other items like batteries can cause fires, and plastic bags and hoses get tangled in processing machinery. Cleaner recycling helps ensure the materials you work hard to recycle are ultimately able to be recycled. The Recycling Quality Improvement Program is meant to help you make accurate and informed recycling choices and provide personalized recycling feedback.
2024 Recycling Audit
WRRMA conducted a follow up audit to investigate contamination levels in the recycling stream. The largest sources of contamination in the recycling stream will be targeted in educational efforts.
2024 WRRMA Recycling Audit Results
WRRMA conducted a follow up audit to investigate contamination levels in the recycling stream. The largest sources of contamination in the recycling stream will be targeted in educational efforts.
2024 WRRMA Recycling Audit Results
2022 Recycling Quality Improvement
The City of Ann Arbor, now officially a WRRMA member community, is undergoing the same Recycling Quality Improvement Program in July 2022 as the other WRRMA communities completed last year.
Read the Press Release for more information.
Through a targeted campaign, the City of Ann Arbor was able to reduce scrap metal placed in curbside recycling by almost 80%. Scrap metal used to be accepted at the Material Recovery Facility, but is not accepted.
The City of Ann Arbor, now officially a WRRMA member community, is undergoing the same Recycling Quality Improvement Program in July 2022 as the other WRRMA communities completed last year.
Read the Press Release for more information.
Through a targeted campaign, the City of Ann Arbor was able to reduce scrap metal placed in curbside recycling by almost 80%. Scrap metal used to be accepted at the Material Recovery Facility, but is not accepted.
