Recycling
To help sustain our communities, we can help by
recycling everyday items we buy, use, and discard after we no longer have use
for them. Most cities offer their citizens trash bins for grouping recyclable items
and garbage to keep our communities clean.
Benefits
of Recycling:
o
Reduces the amount of waste sent to
landfills and incinerators.
o
Conserves natural resources such as timber,
water, and minerals.
o
Prevents pollution by reducing the need to
collect new raw materials.
o
Saves energy.
o
Reduces greenhouse gas emissions that
contribute to global climate change.
Here are a few items you can collect and dispose of in
your recycling bins:
Plastic
bottles – water bottles, milk cartons and gallons, and juice
bottles.
Plastic
bags
– grocery bags.
Aluminum
cans
– sodas, beer, and all aluminum beverages.
Tin
metal cans – canned food and aerosol cans.
Glass
jars
– jelly jars and pickle jars.
Paper
–
newspapers, catalogs, magazines, and phone books.
Cardboard
– cereal boxes and packages.
Other items you can recycle include batteries,
computers, scanners, monitors, and cellphones.
Items like waxed beverage cups, styrofoam cups, and
egg cartons are not
recyclable. If you are unsure of which items are unrecyclable, call your public
works department in your city. :)
Non-recyclable materials:
Recyclable materials:
