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Note to self:
Food Lion's store-brand Potato Sticks come in a cardboard canister.
It has a symbol and text on it indicating it is a multi-layer canister and not recyclable.
I can see the foil layer on the inside of the container.
The outside layer doesn't look like foil, however peeling some of it off shows that it has a very thin layer of foil on its other side too.
So other canisters like this probably use foil on both sides too, even when it isn't apparent.
..
The RC Recycling Wizard indicates that "Plastic tubs & lids" are recyclable; to "Please clean of any food waste and secure lid on container."
I would think the #4 plastic lids from metal/cardboard canisters should be recyclable too as they are the same number plastic. I've been throwing them away. But maybe I could recycle them if I put them inside one of those lidded all-plastic tubs.
(I wonder if the color matters. The all-plastic tubs tend to be white. The lids of other containers tend to be other colors.)
(I normally remove the metal ends of the cardboard canisters so as to recycle them. I bend them in half and put them inside a regular metal food can. I have nagging worries that I'm not supposed to do that. I don't know if it is the same kind of metal. But I also have nagging worries that I shouldn't throw away recyclable metal, so I feel anxiety either way.)
Food Lion's store-brand Potato Sticks come in a cardboard canister.
It has a symbol and text on it indicating it is a multi-layer canister and not recyclable.
I can see the foil layer on the inside of the container.
The outside layer doesn't look like foil, however peeling some of it off shows that it has a very thin layer of foil on its other side too.
So other canisters like this probably use foil on both sides too, even when it isn't apparent.
..
The RC Recycling Wizard indicates that "Plastic tubs & lids" are recyclable; to "Please clean of any food waste and secure lid on container."
I would think the #4 plastic lids from metal/cardboard canisters should be recyclable too as they are the same number plastic. I've been throwing them away. But maybe I could recycle them if I put them inside one of those lidded all-plastic tubs.
(I wonder if the color matters. The all-plastic tubs tend to be white. The lids of other containers tend to be other colors.)
(I normally remove the metal ends of the cardboard canisters so as to recycle them. I bend them in half and put them inside a regular metal food can. I have nagging worries that I'm not supposed to do that. I don't know if it is the same kind of metal. But I also have nagging worries that I shouldn't throw away recyclable metal, so I feel anxiety either way.)