See how the upcoming holiday will affect your pickup schedule: Chicago Recycling and Garbage Pickup Schedule
All empty food and beverage cartons (aka: tetra pak)
Rinse cartons then reattach the caps so they get recycled too.
Remove juice box straws and place them in the garbage.
Most of the cartons collected in Chicago's Residential Blue Cart are recycled through partnerships with Lakeshore Recycling Systems and Fox River Fiber Mill - located in nearby De Pere, Wisconsin. (Reported by LRS in 2021)
This crazy little world of waste
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