Recycling Cereal Bags

Today’s cold breakfast cereals, being packaged in both a plastic bag and a boxboard box, pose some questions regarding the recyclable nature of each.

According to the Kellogg’s company, "Most of our cereal, cracker and waffle box liners are made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), which is coded as #2 flexible plastic. This is the same material used to make white plastic grocery bags. Number 2 plastic is commonly recycled, but the recycle symbol is not typically printed on plastic bags or liners.

If you are a Borden Waste-Away customer and the bag that your cereal comes in is HDPE flexible plastic, they are recyclable with your plastic grocery bags and able to be dropped off at your local grocery store bag collection container.

Cereal bags made of more of a wax paper-like material is still a trash item by most conventional processes.

If you are not a Borden customer, check with your local recycling center to see if they accept either type of cereal bag as a recyclable item.

For more information on recycling visit www.wasteawaygroup.com.