New King County project gives more options for recycling soft plastics

Have you ever found yourself wondering what to do with plastic packaging film, bubble wrap, plastic shopping bags, and other soft plastics that can’t be recycled in the blue bins at home?

A new pilot project gives King County residents a few more options for where to take those harder-to-recycle plastics.

Some large grocery chains will already take soft plastics, but a new pilot project run by King County, the City of Seattle, and other partners is allowing people to drop off these plastics at local independent grocery stores.

“What is new about this is, we’re working with independent grocers,” said Shari Jackson, director of Plastics Sustainability for the

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