Kent County to stop recycling plastic bags

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Officials say the Kent County’s recycling program will no longer accept plastic shopping bags and shredded paper starting on New Year’s.

Plastic bags have created issues at recycling sorting centers like shutdowns due to bags tangling around machinery and mixing with bales of paper, according to the Kent County Department of Public Works.

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