{"id":13457,"date":"2025-07-16T05:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13457\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:43:06","slug":"medical-waste-in-citys-recycling-causes-entire-load-to-be-rejected-at-recycling-center-mississippis-best-community-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13457\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical waste in city’s recycling causes entire load to be rejected at recycling center – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medical waste in city\u2019s recycling causes entire load to be rejected at recycling center<\/p>\n

Published 10:44 am Tuesday, July 15, 2025<\/p>\n

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This photo shows medical waste that someone put in their recycling bin last week, which caused the city’s entire load of recycling to be rejected at the recycling center. (Submitted)<\/p>\n

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These items can be safely recycling.<\/p>\n

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These items cannot be recycled through the city’s recycling program.<\/p>\n

NATCHEZ \u2014 When Meridian Waste workers delivered last week\u2019s recycling to the recycling center last week, an entire truck load of recycled material collected in Natchez was rejected.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone in Natchez put medical waste in their recycling bin,\u201d said Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson. \u201cNeedles and tubes and IV apparatus. As a result, because the recycling facility has such strict guidelines, they had to reject the city\u2019s entire load of recycling. That costs Meridian Waste a lot of money and it also cancels out our effort to provide recycling services to our citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibson said the recycling bins supplied to city residents have instructions on the lid as to what items can be recycled, and what items cannot.<\/p>\n

Anyone who still has questions can go to the city\u2019s website and review the Meridian Waste details online.<\/a><\/p>\n

The city\u2019s recycling program accepts number 1 and 2 plastics, steel and aluminum cans, food and beverage cartons and flat and dry cardboard mixed paper and boxes.<\/p>\n

Not accepted are styrofoam boxes or cups, glass bottles or jars, squeeze bottles or yogurt, sour cream or motor oil containers, plastic bags and plastic wrap or any kind of medical plastic or waste.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have alerted the health department, also, about the medical waste. This is a public health violation,\u201d Gibson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn time, more abuse of recycling privileges would either cause our costs to go up, which would have to be passed along to our residents, or it could result in recycling facilities refusing to take our recycled waste all together,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need our citizens to be very mindful of what they put in the recycling bins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibson said this was the first time since Meridian Waste, even when the company operated as ADSI, that an entire load of recycling was rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical waste in city\u2019s recycling causes entire load to be rejected at recycling center Published 10:44 am Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-13457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}