{"id":892966,"date":"2026-10-24T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892966\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:22:13","slug":"ask-8-investigates-why-your-recycling-is-going-in-the-same-truck-as-your-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892966\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask 8 Investigates: Why your recycling is going in the same truck as your trash"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Auburn resident contacted 8 Investigates after seeing a trash truck empty recycling and trash bins into what appeared to be the same part of the truck<\/p>\n

\"Norah<\/a>AUBURN, Maine \u2014<\/p>\n

An Auburn resident contacted 8 Investigates after seeing a trash truck empty recycling and trash bins into what appeared to be the same part of the truck.<\/p>\n

Casella Waste Systems began using new trucks in Auburn a few months ago. From the street, it can look as if both bins are dumped together. But the truck has a divider in the middle<\/a>, and the driver flips it so recycling and trash go into separate sides. It’s called a split system. <\/p>\n

Casella Waste Systems said the trucks make collection more efficient because the company doesn\u2019t need to send two trucks along the same route.<\/p>\n

So keep sorting your recycling. <\/p>\n

If you have the same concern about your trash provider, ask the company whether it uses trucks with split system technology. <\/p>\n

Have a question for 8 Investigates? Send an email to 8investigates@wmtw.com<\/a>. We read every email you send. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auburn resident contacted 8 Investigates after seeing a trash truck empty recycling and trash bins into what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[193058,374402,5184,374403,374407,374404,374405,204591,3426,374412,192,46191,103233,10482,374406,14971,18415,6562,374413,374410,79,374408,13485,374409,374411,13911,14972,193062],"class_list":["post-892966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-8-investigates","tag-ask-8-investigates","tag-auburn","tag-auburn-recycling","tag-auburn-resident","tag-auburn-trash","tag-casella","tag-casella-waste-systems","tag-company","tag-divider","tag-environment","tag-few-month","tag-investigate","tag-maine","tag-maine-trash","tag-maines-total-coverage","tag-middle","tag-recycling","tag-same-part","tag-same-truck","tag-science","tag-split-system","tag-trash","tag-trash-bin","tag-trash-truck-empty-recycling","tag-truck","tag-wmtw","tag-wmtw-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892966","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=892966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}