Letter: Keep trash out of recycling

Do you value the PRIVILEGE of recycling in Lincoln? Hopefully you do.

We must work to keep TRASH from being thrown in the recycling bins next to the Senior Center, located across the street from the public school.

The front-page headline in the Great Falls Tribune on Sunday, August 19, 2018 was titled “Montana Recycling Program May Get Trashed.” The article mainly focused on issues related to recycling plastic.

But the secondary subject was the problem of people throwing TRASH in recycling bins of any kind.

The article’s warning was clear: the ongoing dumping of trash into recycle containers is jeopardizing the future of the recycling program in Montana and elsewhere around the nation.

PLEASE: put only PAPER (no cardboard) in the paper bin.

PLEASE: put only aluminum or tin cans in the cans bin.

ALL ELSE IS TRASH.

Thank you.

Bob Frank-Plumlee, Chair,

Lincoln Solid Waste Board

406-788-0007