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With the growing number of waste diversion programs for electronics, textiles, books, food scraps and more, it’s hard to decipher what can be recycled and where. Even the basics of what can be recycled curbside are confusing.

This blog series will help you be a more effective recycler and reduce the amount of trash you send to the incinerator.

Arlington’s recycling goes to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF, pronounced ‘merf’) in Peabody, MA. The job of the MRF is to sort materials (by size, weight, magnet and optic sensors), bale sorted items and sell them to manufacturers who will make new products from those recycled materials.