There are many resources for Pittsburghers to find out general information about recycling. Our goal is to provide very specific information to help you understand if a particular item you have is recyclable or not, and how to give it the best chance of not ending up in a landfill. Just because your recycling bags or bins are collected on trash day doesn’t mean your waste is actually being recycled. And sometimes efforts to make recycling more convenient for us and “simpler” to understand, actually means what we put into the recycling stream causes problems for the entire process. We also hope that the details we provide give you some insight into the issues happening behind-the-scenes with recycling. Once you know a few items that are likely to be problematic, you can begin to make more informed choices about the products you buy and the policies you support.