If you use canned goods at home, small metal items accumulate quickly. Our buildings’ waste rooms have separate containers for metal waste. Rinse metal packaging with cold water before placing it in the collection bin.<\/p>\n
Metal recycling is important because the material can then be reused as a raw material. Recycled metal is crushed to create raw material for metal packaging and other metal products. Sorting also pays off financially: by recycling, you save on the building’s costs.<\/p>\n
You can place the following in the small metal collection bin:<\/strong><\/p>\n Do not place the following in the small metal collection bin:<\/strong><\/p>\n Especially with thin metal packaging versus plastic packaging, it can sometimes be difficult to determine which packaging material it is. In that case, take this handy test:<\/p>\n Crumple the packaging into a small ball \u2013 if it returns to its original shape, it is likely not metal (e.g., a coffee bag). Metal will remain in its compressed shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you use canned goods at home, small metal items accumulate quickly. Our buildings’ waste rooms have separate containers for metal waste. Rinse metal packaging with cold water before placing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1116,1119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-tips-for-living"},"yoast_head":"\n\n
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Metal or not? \u2013 Take the test<\/strong><\/h3>\n