Monday, October 25, 2010

Recycle Tips:

Paint and Aerosol cans are recyclable, but are hazardous waste and need to be kept separate from other metals. Its important to leave labels on these cans, so recyclers know the former contents. Try to return the lids with the empty paint cans!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Holloween Cosumes

Halloween is right around the corner. Do you have costumes from last year that are too small for your kids? Please give them away on our website. Families in need would love to have them for their kids. Let's see how many costumes we can get posted! Please pass this around. www.recycletheworld.org

Monday, October 18, 2010

Recycling Fun Fact:

544,000 is the number of trees we would save if every household in the US replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels with 100% recycled ones.

Opt out of Yellow Pages Delivery

Tired of Yellow Pages delivering a phone book to your door step. Click the link below to learn how to opt out of Yellow Book Delivery. By doing this, we could save trees and energy!
http://www.ypassociation.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Environmental1&Template=/CustomSource/ZipSearch.cfm

Monday, October 11, 2010

Glass Recycling

Recycling Fun Fact: Glass takes over 1,000,000 years (one million) years to decompose in a landfill. To find a Recycle Center near you visit www.recycletheworld.org/recycle-centers.php

Monday, October 4, 2010

Computer Disks

Recycling Fun Fact: Almost 4 million computer diskettes are thrown away every day, which equals over 1 and a half billion disks per year OR a stack of disks as tall as the Sears Tower in Chicago every 21 seconds. It will take nearly 500 years for the disks to degrade.