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The Consumer Recycling Guide: Commonly Recycled Materials
The distinctive shape of an aluminum beverage can must be reserved for aluminum beverage cans only (C). It is no longer necessary to remove labels for ... with plastics, the high temperature of glass and metal processing deals easily with contamination. Scrap aluminum is accepted in many places. Other metals are rarely accepted. Aseptic Packaging (Drink boxes, soy- ...
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Recycling Saves Energy
Recycling a ton of glass saves the equivalent of nine gallons of fuel oil. Recycling used aluminum cans requires only about five percent of the energy needed to produce aluminum from ... to light a 100-watt bulb for 3 hours. Act Now: Be sure to recycle all your aluminum beverage cans. Buy products with less packaging or packages that can be recycled in your community. (Photograph - ...
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Recycling Works, Here's How!, Recycling Chart
What Can't Be Recycled How to Prepare for Recycling Glass Clear, amber and green glass from beverage bottles and food jars Window glass, light bulbs, crystal, ceramics, ovenware Rinse bottles and jars, remove ... by type of paper. Tie in bundles or put in paper bags. Check with your local program. Aluminum Aluminum beverage cans Check with your local program to see if pie plates, clean foil, aluminum ...
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EIA Kids Page - Recycling Metals
Aluminum and steel do. Americans use 100 million steel cans and 200 million aluminum beverage cans every day. What should we do with this metal waste? Should we burn it in waste-to-energy ... for a valuable material contained within it. Bauxite, a reddish clay-like ore, is rich in aluminum compounds. The tricky thing about aluminumunlike copper, iron, and other common metalsis that it only exists in ...
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Art Lesson Eleven
Instead, they choose to litter our roads and waste resources by tossing empty aluminum beverage cans out their car windows. An interesting thing happens to ... paper Pencil Acrylic paints Paint brushes Small pans How to: After collecting smashed soft drink cans, choose one which you think has an interesting shape. Carefully rinse and dry it. Hammer ...
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Items taken at M.e.t. Recycling Depots
Links FAQ Site Map About Us Items taken at M.e.t. Depots Aluminum cans -- You can recycle all aluminum beverage cans. Rinse and flatten. Plastic bottles -- You can recycle plastic bottles that have a ... ; up to 5 gallons each per visit. No commercial vendors please! Steel cans -- The M.e.t. sites that accept steel cans are Broken Arrow, Sand Springs, Bixby, Glenpool and Jenks. Corrugated Cardboard -- ...
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In Business, Creating Sustainable Enterprises & Communities
Franklin said this was equivalent to the annual output of three to ... Those categories include per capita, waste minimization and targeted materials - paper, corrugated cardboard, bottles and cans, and food service organics. Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont) was the winner in the food service ...
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Rideau Canal Waterway - Waste Management
Poly-coated paperboard (ie. milk cartons, tetra paks, etc.) Fine paper (i.e. photocopy, computer paper, post-it notes, etc.) Telephone books Kraft paper (ie. brown paper bags) Containers Metal food and beverage cans Aluminum trays and foil PET Plastic #1 High Density Polyethylene Plastic (#2) (ie. juice, shampoo, bleach bottles, etc.) ...
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Community Recycling Key
Cans Refers to all metal food and beverage cans including aluminum, steel, and bi-metal cans. Cans should be rinsed well before recycling. Some cities also accept empty aerosol cans. Glass Refers to glass bottles and jars in brown, clear, and green colors. To recycle glass containers, rinse well and remove ...
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National Beverage Deposits Talking Points
When aluminum cans are recycled, 65% of the pollution is reduced. Recycling decreases energy-related emissions of ... other 40 states together. States with a 5-10 cent deposit recover 78% of the beverage containers they target. Enjoys Strong Public Support in Bottle Bill States States that have deposit / ...
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