{"id":733736,"date":"2026-06-29T23:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733736\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:12:21","slug":"city-of-longview-recycling-returns-with-new-restrictions-on-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733736\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Longview recycling returns with new restrictions on plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"

City of Longview recycling returns with new restrictions on plastics<\/p>\n

Published 5:40 am Monday, June 29, 2026<\/p>\n

The city of Longview\u2019s recycling services will return this week, but fewer kinds of plastics will be accepted.<\/p>\n

Recycling had been paused for a couple of weeks while the company that the city works with to accept and process recyclables \u2013 Northeast Texas Regional Materials Recovery Facility \u2013 made some updates at its Kilgore facility.<\/p>\n

Mayor Kristen Ishihara announced at the close of this past week\u2019s City Council meeting that Northeast Texas MRF would no longer accept all plastic recyclables.<\/p>\n

It will now accept three types of plastics \u2013 those labeled as Nos. 1, 2 and 5.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook video the city of Longview shared, Todd Lucas, general manager of Northeast Texas MRF, said those recyclables account for 85% to 90% of the materials it receives.<\/p>\n

Ishihara apologized for the change, but said the city has to work with the \u201crecycling partner we have.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\u201cWe are working hard to keep the recycling program in Longview,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Only plastics labeled No. 1, No. 2 and No. 5 will be accepted in curbside recycling bins. All other plastics should go into trash carts.<\/p>\n

The program will continue to accept paper and cardboard for recycling.<\/p>\n

Here are examples of each number of plastic:<\/p>\n

Plastics No. 1: Water bottles, sports drinks and soda bottles<\/p>\n

Plastics No. 2: Milk jugs and detergent bottles<\/p>\n

Plastics No. 5: Cottage cheese containers sour cream containers and yogurt containers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Longview recycling returns with new restrictions on plastics Published 5:40 am Monday, June 29, 2026 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-733736","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\/733736","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=733736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}