Monthly report

July 2026, including the line nobody publishes.

A new one goes up on the tenth of each month, and the old ones stay up. A report you can only see once is a press release.

July 2026

Cardboard
412 tons
A containerboard mill in Washington state
3% rejected
Best month this year. Wet cardboard is the usual rejection and July is dry.
Mixed paper
138 tons
The same mill, on a separate grade
11% rejected
Shredded paper is most of this. It cannot be sorted and it should go in the bin.
Glass, collected separately
96 tons
A container plant in Oregon
2% rejected
Separate collection is the whole reason this number is two and not thirty.
Aluminium and steel cans
44 tons
A scrap processor in Pierce County
6% rejected
Film plastic
21 tons
A film recycler in British Columbia
19% rejected
The hardest stream we run. Anything with food on it is out, and it usually has food on it.
Rigid plastic, grades 1 and 2
33 tons
A reprocessor in Utah
8% rejected
Everything sorted out as contamination
58 tons
Landfill, in Pierce County
100% rejected
This is the honest line. Fifty-eight tons we collected did not get recycled, and the pages below explain what most of it was.

Tonnages are examples pending confirmation. Processors are described by type and location rather than named, and no client name appears on this site.