Residential Recycling Tutorial
If you would like to start recycling in your household, Millennium Waste can help. There are probably items around your house that you weren’t aware of that you can recycle. Recycling helps our environment in so many ways. It is important to leave our environment safe for future generations.
Millennium Waste is here to help you to start recycling and with your recycling experience. We offer cost-effective commercial and residential recycling programs with online bill pay, so it will be fast and easy for you to start recycling.
Instead of tossing out your materials look at what you can do to help recycle. It may take some time to sort the items out, but it helps our environment. First, here are some items that may be in your house that you can recycle:
Metals- This includes soda cans or food cans. Americans usually end up discarding about 2.7 million tons of aluminum each year. Only 50 percent of metal is recycled right now. Recycling tin cans can save 74% of the energy used to produce them.
Paper/Cardboard- About 70 percent of cardboard-boxes shipped are recovered by recycling. Many boxes made are recycled materials or lumber industry byproducts, such as sawdust and wood chips. When cardboard is recycled it is used for cereal boxes, paper towels, tissues, and printing paper.
Magazines- About 45 percent of magazines are being recycled today. Recycled magazines are used to make newspapers, tissues, and writing paper.
Office Paper- About 45 percent of office paper is recycled today. Computer paper, bond, and letterhead can be turned back into office paper if it is kept separate from other waste paper. It can also be used to create tissue paper.
Newspapers- More than 75 percent of all newspapers in the United States are collected and recycled. The average newspaper today is made of high a high amount of recycled fiber. Recycled newspapers can be made into cereal boxes, egg cartons, pencil barrels, grocery bags, and tissue paper.
Phone books- Every year new phone books and business directories arrive at your door and they are recyclable. There are enough phone books created each year to measure 106,700 miles when lined up. Recycling just 500 books would help save between 17 and 31 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 463 gallons of oil, and approximately 600 pounds of air pollution.
The US alone set a record in 2007 by recycling of paper used. The amount of paper thrown away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. If each person recycled these numbers would decrease.
Millennium Waste makes it easy for customers to recycle with the convenient and efficient residential recycling services that we offer. We are dedicated to help you recycle and to provide you with reliable commercial and residential recycling programs. For more information about our recycling programs, please visit our recycling page or call us at (309) 787- 2303. We are happy to assist and answer any questions you may have!
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