If I bundled straws for recycling, would they make it through the baler successfully?

It wouldn’t be cost effective to pay someone to take the lids off the cups and dump out the straws. The plastic the lids are made of is probably a different plastic than the straws if a solid color. And the baler might knock the lids off, spilling straws hither and yon.

Well, I asked the same thing on FB and someone sent this link.
Kind of sounds like I’m on the right track. I’ll call our local recycling center tomorrow.

Driving straight past would remove all and any doubt.

What?

I need to find out how they process the plastic. If it’s melted and reprocessed noone would need to take them out of the cup, as long as the cup is the same plastic number as the straws.

I’ve always been told to not bundle anything and let everything free flow.

I thought you were a big proponent of not using plastic bottles for water. Why the hell are you using plastic straws?

I am a big proponent of not using plastic bottles for water because MOST people don’t bother to recycle them. They just throw them on the ground because they’re ass wipes. To that end I’m trying to figure out a way to recycle straws. Some one sent me this article. It makes it seem like I’m on the right track. I just need to check with my recycling center. Or change my straw habit.

Most people don’t recycle water bottles? Do you have stats? Large cities have recycling services that are used by the residents.

Maybe rural towns and people don’t recycle but that’s not most people.

Most people don’t recycle.