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The country's largest recycling trade organization has taken a clear stance against programs that ask residents to commingle trash and recyclables for post-collection sortation. The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) issued a position statement regarding the collection and recycling method. "ISRI supports the collection and sortation of recyclable materials in a manner that optimizes the value and utilization of the material as specification grade commodities to be used as a feedstock to manufacture new products," the statement reads. "Since the quality of the recyclables as specification grade commodities is essential, ISRI opposes the commingling of recyclables with solid waste or mixed waste processing in a one-bin system where all solid waste and recyclables are placed together with no separation prior to recycling."