Recycling
VIEW RECYCLING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES!!
WATERTOWN RECYCLING - Bins are collected every other week on your regular trash day. When referring to the Collection Calendar, green bins are picked up on green dates and red bins are picked up on red dates. Residents may purchase a recycle bin for $8.00 at the Department of Public Works, Monday through Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm.
Yard Waste Pick Up begins Friday, April 9, 2010 -- must be curbside before 7:00 am. No Plastic Bags. Scheduled pick-ups are indicated with a red square on each date on the Collection Calendar, always on a Friday.
Please Remember!! All corrugated cardboard must be flattened and tied up to be picked up by Allied Waste. Do not store the flattened cardboard in a cardboard box, it will not fit into the truck.
Hazardous Waste inquiries may be addressed at the Health Department, 617-972-6446.
Facts About Recycling -
Glass never wears out! It can be recycled forever! Recycling one glass bottle saves enough electricity to light a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours.
Americans use 4 million plastic bottles every hour! Only 1 bottle out of 4 is recycled.
Single use bags are a waste of trees (paper) or fossil fuels (plastic). They contribute to water pollution during production and landfill overload at disposal. To reduce these problems re-use paper or cloth bags.
Using recycled aluminum instead of virgin materials decreases water and air pollution and energy use by 95%.
Every hour, we throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles. Americans throw away enough plastic bottles each year to circle the earth four times.
Recycling one tone of paper saves 17 trees. Every Sunday, the US wastes nearly 90% of all the recyclable newspapers. This wastes about 500,000 trees.
JUNK MAIL! American's receive almost 4.5 million tons of junk mail per year, 44% of junk mail is never opened. 100 million trees are ground up each year to produce junk mail.
Recycling takes place when materials that are collected separately are processed and reused in a different form. A load of mixed materials does not yield a pure end product and is less likely to be used in a recycled product. Do not add additional materials to the recycling you put out at the curb or bring to the Recycling Center. This does not increase recycling--in fact it reduces it.
In addition to using our curbside recycling services, you can reduce your use of natural resources by reusing products and materials as often as possible. For example, you can use rags in your kitchen instead of paper towels.
|
|