Recycling: Show off your clean tailgate spot this football season for a chance to win a gift card
We have been preaching the same message for the past few years: When attending a Penn State football game, blue bags are for empty bottles and cans and clear bags are for everything else. It is that simple. We’d love to see the recycling contamination reduced this season.
It is easy to recycle at Penn State football tailgates. Once you settle in at your tailgate spot, walk over to an A-Frame labeled for Penn State Football Recycling. The A-Frames contain two colors of bags (blue bags for recycling empty plastic bottles, glass bottles and aluminum cans — and clear bags for everything else).
Once you fill your blue bags with empty bottles and cans, tie up the bag and leave it at your tailgate. Do the same with your clear trash bag: tie it up and leave it at your tailgate. The grounds crew will begin collecting blue and clear bags the morning after the game. Clear bags will go to the landfill and the blue bags will be delivered to the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority (CCRRA) where the contents will be sorted and recycled.
To sort the recyclables, employees of CCRRA will open each bag by hand and empty the contents on our sorting conveyor belt. They will then sort the materials from the bags by hand into the following categories: plastic bottles, clear glass bottles, green glass bottles, brown glass bottles and metal cans. The recyclables will be prepared and sent to market and made into new products.
This would be a relatively easy process if the blue bags only contain empty plastic bottles, glass bottles and metal cans. With readers like you helping to spread the word, I hope blue bag recycling materials will come into our facility much cleaner this season. Please help to educate your friends and family on proper recycling at football tailgates this fall.
Lastly, leave your tailgate area better than you found it. Our employees, the PSU grounds crew and your community will thank you for it.
Speaking of keeping it clean, you can win a $50 Weis Market gift card for keeping your tailgate clean of trash and debris. Once you have cleaned up your tailgate spot, snap a picture of your tied bags and litter-free tailgate area. Post your picture to CCRRA’s Facebook, Twitter or Instagram page (or tag us!). We will pick one lucky winner after each home game to receive a $50 Weis Market gift card. Make sure to enter after each home game for your chance to win. We would like to thank Weis Markets for donating a $50 gift card for each home game.
As always, thanks for recycling and keeping our local community clean!