"Rumpke is berry egg-cited to announce that clamshell plastic containers are now recyclable," the company wrote in a blog post last month.
Beginning November 1, 2024, clear plastic carryout, fruit and vegetable, and egg containers can be tossed into blue recycling bins alongside other household recycling.
The reason for the change? AI.
"New technology at the Rumpke Recycling and Resource Center allows us to segregate new types of recycling from the stream," said Rumpke president Andrew Rumpke.
Added Jeff Snyder, Rumpke's senior vice president of recycling and sustainability: "New artificial intelligence and optic technology allows Rumpke to identify and sort plastic clamshells from other types of plastics within the recycling stream."
Recycled clamshell containers will be sent to a manufacturing partner to be processed into plastic pellets.
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