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You can forget about checking that numbered triangular code as you gather plastic bottles, jugs and containers for recycling in North Platte. The city now is accepting all seven types of plastics at its seven dropoff sites across town, City Administrator Layne Groseth said Thursday. It’s one of the first fruits of the City Council’s Oct. 1 vote to send recyclable plastics, tin cans and paper products to Western Resources Group of Ogallala. The city had used ABC Recycling of North Platte exclusively since 2020. The dropoff sites continue to accept cardboard, tin and aluminum cans, newspapers and magazines and other paper products as well as plastics. ABC’s plastic markets accepted only sorted No. 1 and No. 2 plastics, Groseth said, forcing residents to throw other types of plastics into the regular trash. WRG handles all plastic types and doesn’t care if different types are mingled, he added. North Platte’s new blue dropoff bins, decorated with colorful photos of local attractions, haven’t yet been updated to indicate that all seven types of plastics now can be left there, Groseth said. “We’ll work with Keep North Platte and Lincoln County Beautiful in the next few months to do more public education on that,” he said. The city hopes to soon begin accepting recyclable glass, because WRC also has a marketer for those products, he said. Since the October switchover, the city’s Public Service Department has been taking cardboard from the dropoff sites to be mulched with wood, brush and other yard waste at North Platte’s transfer station near Lake Maloney. City workers are taking aluminum cans deposited at the dropoff sites to Alter Recycling of North Platte, Groseth said. The tin cans go to WRG in Ogallala with the plastics and paper. Since the ABC Recycling contract expired, he said, recyclables from the dropoff sites are being collected at one of the Public Service Department’s white-roofed, Quonset-shaped buildings. An application for a federal grant of just over $1 million, endorsed by the council Tuesday, aims to fund a permanent city sorting and transfer building. Groseth said the desired Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grant would pay for that structure, a new recycling truck and forklift, two rolloff recycling bins and five rolloff cardboard bins. That would let the city add a couple more recycling dropoff sites, he said. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed by Congress in 2022 sets aside $275 million nationally to better equip local recycling programs. City Hall hopes to learn by the end of July if it gets the $1 million-plus grant, Groseth said. A new sorting and transfer building likely would rise on the city’s sand and gravel lot across East 12th Street (U.S. Highway 30) from Garden Glove and The Coffee Bin. Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter. Special projects reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.Solar D banks on robotic panel installerMajor mozzie outbreak at Sydney water facility crushed

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