Fox 8 reports that Waste Management, the company that manages Winston-Salem, NC’s recycling program, says that its trucks bring in six to eight tons of plastic every year. Each year, the city recycled more than 500 tons of plastic bottles.
Enforcement of the new law will be directed at haulers that show up at landfills with big loads of banned materials.
North Carolina is the first state in the southeast U.S. to pass such a plastic bottle ban.
