Amazing But True Recycling Facts!
- A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest!
- If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just in the United States!!!
- Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Billion Styrofoam coffee cups every year.
- A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
- A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers --lets make sure they're recycled!
News
We would like to congratulate
Eco-Clean of Lyndon
for their continued effort to reduce trash and their efforts to help businesses to strive for zero waste.
Helpful
Tidbits
If your business is interested in reducing trash and increasing recycling give us a call we would be happy to help.
Contact us to learn more.
Schools
Through our continued contact with Northeast Kingdom schools
we have helped to implement school recycling programs throughout the district.
At the end of 2011 we have recycling programs in all of our schools,
these programs are continually monitored and new materials added to programs when space becomes available.
The Outreach Coordinator for the NEKWMD is available to assist schools in member towns
with waste management education, and recycling/compost program implementation.
Recycling pick-up and recycling bins are available to NEKWMD schools as well as
composting supplies and assistance in planning a compost program.
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