Large Plastic Bottles

A half-gallon milk jug and 2-liter soda bottle

DO rinse these containers out before putting into recycling
DO remove the lids (info on recycling the lids here)
DO put in curbside recycling

About These Items

Large plastic bottles like water bottles, soda bottles, and laundry detergent bottles are some of the most marketable recyclable plastic. The City of Pittsburgh curbside recycling program accepts these bottles (up to 3 gallon in size. ) Make sure you empty them out and take off the caps.

If you see these bottles laying around as litter, consider picking them up and adding them to your recycling to make sure they don’t wind up in the landfill, where they can take hundreds of years to decompose.

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