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Recycle
Recycling occurs when you save and take reusable materials to places where they can be remade into either the same product or new products, rather than to just toss them in the trash. Making new items from recycled ones also takes fewer energy and other resources than making products from brand new materials.
Just about anything in your home (or office or school, etc.) that cannot be reused CAN be recycled into something else. You’d be amazed what can be done with a recycled product …a recycled soda bottle, for example, can be made into T-shirts, combs, or hundreds of other plastic goods that can be used for many years. Even your brand new computer case might be made from ordinary recycled plastics. And paper products can take on different forms as well — an old phone book or coloring book might become one of your school books or a composition notebook.
Your recycling mission is not impossible! In fact, it is very simple:
Don’t throw away anything that can be recycled
Here is a list of things you should always recycle (or reuse) …
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Some of the items listed above will require special handling procedures and special recycling places or events. Just ask your local recycling office (city, county, or state) for assistance and information.
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- Steve Jobs Addresses Criticism of Poor Environmental Practices, Publishes “A Greener Apple”
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- How To Go Green: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Three R’s of Waste Management BASICS »
- TIME Magazine Green Apple Cleaners Shout Out
- NYC Electronic Recycling Earth Month 2009 Calendar
- EarthTalk: How To Recycle Lids, Tops & Caps
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