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We understand the importance of recycling and we continue to do our part in helping to make this process easier for you. There is no limit to the amount of recyclables you can set out for disposale and there are no expensive containers that you need to buy from us to put these items in. Simply place your items in the container of your choice and clearly label it "Recycling". We offer curbside recycling service to residential and commercial customers for the following items: ACCEPTABLE MATERIALS Paper: Newspapers (including glossy inserts). Cans: Aluminum, Tin and steel including beverage, food and empty aerosol cans. Waste Oil: (in plastic jugs only) Motor oil, transmission fluid, power steering fluid. No gasoline. |
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UNACCEPTABLE MATERIALS Plastic: No type of Plastic is accepted at this time. Please place it in your regular trash or you can recycle it at the Mission on Route. 30. |
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Still unsure if recycling is right for you or worth your time? Take a few minutes and read the following recycling facts. It might just change the way you throw your trash away. ALUMINUM RECYCLING FACTS • A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. • Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S., but other types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters, car components, storm window frames, and lawn furniture can also be recycled. • Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. • More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product. • Because so many are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates. • An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now! • There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled. • We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda/beverage cans every year. • At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
STEEL RECYCLING FACTS • A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. • In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!
PAPER RECYCLING FACTS • To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. • Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees. • If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year! • If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year. • 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!!! • The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year! • The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. • Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S. • Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person. • The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail. • In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space. • Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution! • The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide. • The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
GLASS RECYCLING FACTS • Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable! • The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or a compact fluorescent bulb for 20 hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials. • A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill. • Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%.
PLASTIC RECYCLING FACTS • Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away! • Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year! • Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. • Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.
MISCELLANEOUS RECYCLING FACTS • An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space -- that's almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
SOLID WASTE AND LANDFILL FACTS • About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
The recycling facts above have been compiled by recycling-revolution.com from various sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Earth911.org. While every effort is made to provide accurate information, there is no warranty or guarantee that the facts presented here are exact. All polite corrections to this information is welcome. Please also feel free to contact us if you have additional recycling facts to share. For even more information and additional recycling facts, please visit The National Recycling Coalition |
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Effective January 1, 2013 we will no longer be able to accept electronic devices as part of your trash collection service. Pennsylvania’s “Coved Device Recycling Act” (Act 108) prohibits the acceptance of “covered electronic devices” at all Pennsylvania solid waste disposal facilities and also prohibits residents from placing them at the curb for waste pick-up. Under the Act, “covered devices” include televisions, desktop and laptop computers, computer monitors and computer peripherals (anything that connects to a computer such as a mouse, keyboard, printer, etc.). Residents must now recycle them. The Act requires manufacturers of covered devices sold or offered for sale in Pennsylvania to make collection programs available to Pennsylvania residents for the recycling of their covered devices. Your devices may be dropped-off at the following facilities at no cost. • Residents of York County may also drop them at the York County Solid Waste Authority's Yard Waste Transfer Facility the third Saturday of every month. For more information you can contact them at (717) 845-1066 or visit their web site at: www.ycswa.org For more information about Act 108, visit Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection |
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