Recycle your junk

WHY YOU SHOULD RECYCLE YOUR JUNK ? ADUANTAGES OF RECYCLING WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED ? CONSERUE LANDFILL SPACE • Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Prevents pollution • Saves energy • Reduces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate chang • Helps sustain the environment for future generations • Helps create new well-paying jobs in the recycling and manufacturing industries in the United States CARDBOARD & PAPER GLASS ALUMINIUM & STEEL PLASTIC CARTONS CONSERUES ENERGY Recycling one ton of aluminum: • Saves 14,000 kWh of energy • Saves 39.6 barels (1,663 gallons) of oil • Saves 237.6 million Btu's of energy • Saves 10 cubic yards of landfill space WHAT CAN NOT BE RECYCLED ? NAPPIES SAVES TREES CERAMICS Every ton of paper recovered for recycling is a ton that doesn't go to the landfill. Recycling also allows maximum use of the valuable resource without waste. Because fiber can only be recycled 5-7 times before the fibers are too weak to make new products. It is important for consumers to keep in mind, however, that recovered paper fibers can not be recycled indefinitely. Paper fiber eventually breaks down into short, weak fibers that are not strong enough to be recycled into new paper products. For this reason, it is necessary for the paper industry to harvest new fiber that can be infused into the recycled paper manufacturing process. FOOD SCRAPS SYRINGES COOKWARE POLYSTRENE CROCHERY PLASTIC BAGS CREATES JOBS Recycling is an economic development tool as well as an environmental tool. Reuse, recycling, and waste reduction offer direct development opportunities for communities. When collected with skill and care, and upgraded with quality in mind, discarded materials are a local resource that can contribute to local revenue, job creation, business expansion, and the local economic base. Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job; landfilling 10,000 tons of waste creates six jobs; recycling 10,000 tons of waste creates 36 jobs. RECYCLED MATERIALS BREAKDOWN 7 % MAKES MONEY There is money in recycling. In the level of the individual, one of the benefits of recycling is financial income. There are a lot of things lying around the house that we no longer want or need that might just end up in a dumpsite somewhere, that we can recycle and earn money from. Cell phones, PDAS, ink cartridges, etc. Here at PaceButler, for instance, a phone sent in for recycling could net the 20 % owner as much as $50. 53 % SAUE NATURAL RESOURCES 3% Communities that recycle are making the right choice, and have also created a positive example of how we as individuals can better our environment by taking conservation into account in our daily lives. Separating your paper, plastic, glass and metal waste may seem labor intensive, but is quite simple in actuality and many communities offer recycling bins for different materials or collect all of these types of waste from one container and separate them later at community funded recycling centers. 17 % REDUCE POLLUTION One important reason for recycling is because recycling helps reducepollution. The manufacturing process (including the extraction of virgin materials from the earth) for many products releases waste that pollutes the environment. For example, chemicals used in the manufacturing process contribute to water pollution, especially if the contaminated water is not properly treated before its release to the environment. The power plants that provide the energy needed in the manufacturing process produce gases that pollute the air. Hence, when we reduce and reuse (instead of buying new things all the time), and we recycle (instead of using own virgin materials), we reduce the pollution that results from manufacturing the new products. We can also minimize pollution from the burning of fuel in power planis that generate energy needed in the manufacturing process. MIXED PAPER GLASS PLASTIC Junk Removal Surrey BC | Recycle It 604-587-5865 Vue Media Inc. %24