Beginning Thursday, Jan. 1, KC Recycling Depot will offer new recycling services throughout Kosciusko County. Borden Waste Away Group will be picking up recycling materials at the nine KC Recycling stations located in Warsaw behind the KC Recycling Depot, Syracuse, North Webster, Milford, Leesburg, Silver Lake, Claypool, Mentone and Pierceton.

Previously, the Depot offered consumer sort stations which required residents to separate their different recycling materials. With Borden’s service, materials will be collected commingled. For the recycler, this change means all appropriate recycled materials can be placed into one bin at the stations.

Another change is additional materials can be collected. Glass bottles and jars have been added back to the program and acceptable plastic containers have been expanded. Accepted recyclable materials now collected in the containers are: corrugated boxes and cardboard, flattened; office paper, newspaper, mixed paper and magazines; plastic containers marked with numbers one through seven on the bottom; glass jars and bottles, rinsed; and aluminum and steel cans, rinsed.

Collected materials will be sorted into commodities at Borden’s material recovery facility, Recycle Works. They are unable to recycle Styrofoam and other unmarked plastics, plastic bags, coated cardboard, ceramic and glass dishware, mirrors and food contaminated materials.

To see how a material recover facility operates, visit Borden’s website, wasteawaygroup.com. Under the recycling section tab at the top of the page there is a video of the facility. With a series of conveyor belts, magnets, eddy currents and people, Recycle Works processes mixed recyclables into truckloads of commodities.

Many residents in Kosciusko county have curbside recycling programs. Borden’s services Warsaw and Syracuse city residents with curbside service. The recycling stations are primarily for people who do not have this service available. However, all residents are free to use the stations.

The holiday season is a time of year where people create 25 percent more waste. If residents find their post-holiday bins overflowing with extra boxes and beverage containers, the recycling stations can help. They are open 24 hours a day for recycling.

Call the KC Recycling Depot at (574) 372-3087 or visit www.kcrecycling.com for further questions.