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3120/2018 China's limits on recycling being felt in Triangle, North Carolina I News & Observer <br />About 13 percent of what comes in to the building can't be recycled, says Sonoco plant manager Patrick McDonald. That <br />includes Styrofoam, clothes, electronics, shoes, bubble wrap and plastic bags - materials that should not have been put in <br />the bins in the first place. Recyclers call this "residue," and removing it is critical to producing bales that companies will <br />want to buy. <br />A freshly unloaded truck of recycling included a shoe which cannot be recycled. <br />CaseyToth - cloth @nsmobserveccom <br />As McDonald spoke, a Raleigh recycling truck disgorged its load on the ground just outside the Sonoco plant. At first <br />glance, it looks like so much trash, all mixed and compacted. <br />"That's a pretty good looking load, to be honest with you," McDonald said. But even then it wasn't hard to see items that <br />will have to be pulled out. <br />"There's a shoe. There's always a shoe," he said. "And those corduroys shouldn't be there." <br />Sorting by hand <br />hftp: /A�. newsobseNer. com/ n"sibusinamianiele205296704.h "l 4/10 <br />