[NABS-L] Recycling As A Blind Person

[Karl Martin Adam]

Only plastic has numbers.  Your recycling service should tell you 
what kinds of things can be recycled, usually clean glas and 
metal, sometimes clean paper and cardboard, and certain clean 
plastics.  Sometimes the number of plastics don't matter, e.g. my 
recycling place takes all plastic bottles.  Other than that, you 
can ask a sighted person to look at the numbers on things you use 
a lot, e.g. the type of yogurt you normally buy, your favorite 
kinds of bottled beverages etc. and remember whether those things 
are recyclable or not.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Justin Heard via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:40:06 -0400
Subject: [NABS-L] Recycling As A Blind Person

Hello everyone.

I have thought about recycling, but have encountered a couple of 
issues.
First, I am confused about what I can recycle. From my 
understanding,
many products have specific labels that say what type of plastic 
they
are, which determines if I can recycle it or not. I think things 
other
than plastic also have labels, but I'm not sure. So how do I know 
what I
can and can't recycle if I can't find much less read the labels? 
Second,
at many apartment complexes I have lived in, the recycling cans 
always
move around, or there is no recycling place on the property. Any
suggestions for overcoming this barrier?

Thanks.


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