The 3 Rs: Reduce • Re-Use • Recycle

In that order!

Did you know that the average american creates 4.4 pounds of trash every day?

Reduce Waste from the Source

Choose your products wisely

Start with reducing the amount of waste coming into the household. When purchasing a product, take a look at the packaing and try to buy goods packed in paper, cardboard, glass, or metal. The least amount of packing the better! Some, not all, plastics can be recycled and since all plastic is made from oil, try to keep plastic consumption to a bare minimum. Plastic bags are particularly bad for the envoirnment.

Use Re-Usable Bags and Containers

1,000,000,000 Plastic Bags Handed Out Every Day

Every day the world hands out 1 BILLION plastic bags to consumers around the world. Not only do these bags take over 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill, the bits of plastic are finding their way into our water supply and oceans killing hundres of thousands of whales, sea turtles and other marine mammals. We need to stop using plastic bags as quick as possible.

Recycling

What is recycling and why is it so important?

Many of the materials we throw away every day can be saved from entering the landfill. Paper, cardboard, metals, plastics can all be recycled. Contact your local waste management company to find out what materials they are able to take. Depending on the level of sophistication of their sorting facitly, you may need to sort or find out certain unacceptable waste materials. Most recycling centers take the following materials:

Glass Bottles (green, brown & clear)
Aluminum Cans
Newspaper
Cardboard