Are Plastic Milk Cartons Recyclable. Recycled cartons dont become waste in our landfills but rather new products you use every day. Milk soup juice wine and broth are just some of the products packaged in cartons that youll find in your nearby grocery store and theyre all recyclable.
Aseptic brick-shaped cartons are made from five layers and include a layer of aluminum foil. Shelf-stable milk cartons those that do not require refrigeration until the seal. With every carton you recycle youre helping make a positive change in society.
Landfills as of 2015.
Shelf stable cartons that can hold things like vegetable purees soups broths milk juice and water are made mostly from paper with a thin layer of plastic and aluminum. Although cartons are fully recyclable not every community has access to a materials recovery facility MRF able to sort and bale cartons for shipment to a paper mill. As such milk cartons should be recycled with plastic metal and glass containers. Landfills as of 2015.
