KENT COUNTY, Mich. — The Kent County Department of Public Works has released its 2025 fall recycling guide and is encouraging residents to take advantage of the disposal services that are available from both city and public works facilities.

The department tells us that roughly 75% of what gets thrown into a landfill or goes to a waste-to-energy facility is recyclable or compostable.

"There's a lot of value that is getting thrown away when it could be recycled. So the estimate is that just that simple soda and beer cans, just aluminum cans, on a yearly basis, just at our Kent County landfill, over a million dollars worth of aluminum is getting thrown away in that landfill," Micah Herrboldt, Waste Reduction Educator, Kent County Department of Public Works said.

The guide says things l

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