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Recycling Facts

52,000 of paper products have been recycled in 2018
The average person make five pound of trash each day
Cardboard boxes can be recycled at least 7 times
Yearly 2.4 million tons of of recycled glass is used to make glass and bottles
A plastic water bottle, shampoo container, peanut butter jar you can keep the cap on when you recycle
Crayons are clogging landfills at a fast rate. Instead, you can take them to the Crayon Initiative. They will remanufacture them and send them to children’s hospitals.
Shingles can be recycled and used for streets. Just go to ShingleRecycling.org.
Play it Again Sports will buy sporting equipment to be sold to others. Whenever it comes to yoga mats Sanuk can turn them into flip flops.
You can take your toothbrushes to Terracycle. They also take things like toothpaste tubes and floss.
CD Recycling Center of America can take your CDs and turn them into materials for automotive and building industries.
Fluorescent light bulbs can easily break in the landfill releasing mercury into the air. Instead Earth911 has recycling spots for them.
Don’t throw out old holiday lights! Send them to Holiday LEDS where they will recycle them. If you give them lights to recycle, they will give a discount to buy new ones.
Did you know that numerous programs have solutions for recycling old toilets? Well, they do!
Computers and phones can be recycled into usable metals.
300,000,000 pairs of shoes are thrown out each year. You don’t want your shoe to be wound up in the landfill. Instead send them to Wearable Collections!
Do you have VHS tapes? Do you want to throw them away? Well, don’t. Instead send them to GreenDisk.
You can recycle foam by signing up through Home for Foam.
Diapers can be recycled with Knowaste. Just know that they are looking for used diapers.
Beauty products can be recycled with Terracycle. They can recycle products involving skin care, hair care, and cosmetic packaging.
The Lions Club is where eyeglasses can be recycled and renewed.
Next time you have one of these things on hand and you don’t need them anymore, don’t throw them away. Recycle them instead for the sake of the planet. It needs you!