WHO KNEW There’s an App to Help Simplify Recycling?

Recycling rules are complicated and ever-changing. Loads of recyclables that are contaminated with items that aren’t allowed are a big problem. The Northeast Resource Recovery Association recently estimated that the contamination rate for zero-sort communities like Hanover is 10-30%. A contaminated load may well end up in the landfill. Resources are lost when recyclables become garbage, and landfills fill up faster. Both are bad for the environment.

In a bid to make it easier for you to recycle properly, Hanover has launched a new app on November 14th. It’s called Betterbin, and it will put answers to your zero-sort recycling questions at your fingertips. Careless recycling not only contaminates the load – it can actually cause injury to workers at the sorting facility. Barred items that workers call “the tanglers” -- cords, hoses and the all-too-common offender, stretchy plastic bags -- can get twisted up in the parts of the machine that sorts the recyclables. Things grind to a halt, and it might be necessary for a worker at the facility to climb into the sorting machine to free up and remove the tanglers. That’s a dangerous task.

Betterbin will answer your zero-sort questions so you can keep your part of the recycling stream free.

To download the app: https://betterbin.app/load/recsJ2zlbzLWBtXrG,reces4TlAdJMLRGpD,recESu4x8zuDjAAo7

For more information on the Better Bin App:

https://about.betterbin.app/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Hanover-NH-App-Launch-One-Pager.pdf