From the inbox:
Beginning Oct. 1, motor oil filters, wooden pallets and plastic bottles are outlawed from entering any North Carolina landfill. This new statewide recycling ban will ensure that more items are kept out of the landfill and recycled instead. Here at ASU we already have recycling programs for these materials in place, but we hope that this new ban will assist us in capturing even more of these materials for recycling and keep them out of our waste stream.
Mandates like this usually have unintended consequences. I would expect to see more plastic containers dumped beside the road.
