Creation Care -- Recycle at Your Grocery Store

Did you know you can recycle more than plastic shopping bags at your favorite grocery store? Local stores, including Ingle’s, Publix, Harris Teeter, Food Lion, Target, and Whole Foods, have easy-to-access recycling bins near the front door for plastic bags and wraps that cannot be recycled in curbside recycling bins.
 
Grocery Store Recycling Items

• plastic retail bags (clean, dry and free of receipts)

• bread wraps, produce bags

• newspaper sleeves and dry-cleaning bags

• wrap from paper plates, napkins, bathroom tissue, cases of water, and diapers

• bubble wrap and deflated air pillows (think Amazon)

• plastic shipping envelopes (remove labels)

• plastic cereal box liners (if it tears like paper, do not include)

• Zip-top food storage bags (clean and dry)

Remember, these items need to be clean, dry, free of labels and cannot be placed in the curbside recycle bins. Not only will you be helping to keep our streets and waterways litter free, but you will also be providing material for new products.

Visit plasticfilmrecycling.orgto find your nearest drop-off location.

Reminders:

• We are still collecting unopened, clean packages of utensils (with or without napkins and condiments) inside both the Fellowship Hall and Main Street entrances of the church. These will be donated to the ministries of the Haywood Street Respite shelter.

• WNC Repair Cafe returns to Living Web Farms on Tuesday, June 15, 5-7 pm. (See details in previous newsletter HERE.)

 “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” —Henry David Thoreau