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We have teamed up with Eureka Recycling to provide the best recycling service that is offered in the state! This means that ALL of your recycling you put curbside each week is being recycled. This is unlike the single sort method used by some of our competitors where everything is mixed together and then compacted. If you mix everything together and then compact it, you have a much higher level of contamination. With the single sort method, a small percentage of the glass is actually being recycled. Most glass ends up in landfills for a filtration process or used for sandblasting. The newsprint, paper products and cardboard material also have a much higher level of contamination. This means a high portion of your recycling is just being thrown back into the waste stream. With our two stream recycling system you can be sure the product you place curbside each week will be recycled.

Items accepted for recycling:

Paper Items
- Junk Mail
- Newspaper
- Office Paper
- Magazines
- Phone Books
- Paper grocery bags
- Cereal, chip, cracker, cake boxes
- Pop, Beer, Tissue boxes

Commingled Items
- Aluminum Cans
- All tin & steel cans
- Glass food jars (all colors)
- Glass beverage bottles (all colors)
- Milk jugs
- Laundry detergent
- Ketchup bottles
- Water & pop bottles
- Butter tubs/dairy containers

Please Be Kind to Mother Earth and recycle!

Thanks

In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his/her adult weight in garbage. If you add it up, this means that a 150-lb. adult will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs of trash for his/her children.

Recycling Facts:

Glass

*Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars every two weeks to fill the 1.350-foot towers of the former World Trade Center.

Glass never wears out -- it can be recycled forever. We save over a ton of resources for every ton of glass recycled -- 1,330 pounds of sand, 433 pounds of soda ash, 433 pounds of limestone, and 151 pounds of feldspar.

Plastic

*Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every year.

*In 1988 we used 2 billion pounds of HDPE just to make bottles for household products. That’s about the weight of 90,000 Honda Civics.

*If every American household recycled just one out of every ten HDPE bottles they used, we’d keep 200 million pounds of the plastic out of landfills every year.

Paper

*Each of us uses approximately one 100-foot-tall Douglas fir tree in paper and wood products per year. (EPA, 2008)

*More than 400 paper mills in the United States use at least some recovered materials in their manufacturing processes, and more than 200 of those mills use recovered fiber exclusively. (EPA, 2008)

*Recycling paper instead of making it from new material generates 74 percent less air pollution and uses 50 percent less water. (EPA, 2008)

Metal

*Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy needed to produce new aluminum from raw materials. Energy saved from recycling one ton of aluminum is equal to the amount of electricity the average home uses over 10 years. (Keep America Beautiful, 2006)

*Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, or a TV for 2 hours. (EPA, 2008)

*Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch. That means you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one can out of new material. Energy savings in 1993 alone were enough to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for six years.

*Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them.

* When you toss out one aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the same can half-full of gasoline and poured it into the ground