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Why Recycle??

Recycling saves energy.  It usually takes less energy to make recycled products then products from virgin material.  For example it take 95% less energy to recycle aluminum then it does to get new aluminum from bauxite, which is the main ore that makes up aluminum.  Once an aluminum can is recycled it can become part of a new can within six weeks.

Recycling save landfill space.  When recycled products are used to make new products they don't have to go into landfills or be incinerated, leaving room for unrecyclable products. 

Recycling saves natural resources.  By creating products from recycled materials instead of raw material, we preserve and reduce the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals.

 Did You Know??                                                   

• The amount of wood and paper we throw away every year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
• Recycling one ton of cardboard saves over nine cubic yards of landfill space.
• Recycling corrugated cardboard cuts the emissions of sulfur dioxide in half and used about 25% less energy than making cardboard from virgin pulp.
  
• 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 yea in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to hear and light 18,000,000 homes.
• Making new steel products from recycled steel instead of virgin ore reduces water use by 40%, water pollution by 76%, air pollution by 86%, and mining wastes by 97%.
  
• One tone of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water.

Recycling Construction and Demolition Material

In 1998, the U.S generated 136 million tons of waste from construction and demolition.  Of that, 92 percent is from demolition and renovation.  Only 20 to 30 percent(mostly concrete, asphalt, metals and some wood) was recycled or reused.
-EPA, " A Characterization of Building-Related Construction and Demolition Debris in the United States," 1998

The waste from building demolition removal constitutes nearly half of all building related construction and demolition debris.  Renovation and remodeling projects are estimated to generate an additional 40 percent of the total debris, and new construction makes up the rest.
-EPA, "Analyzing What's Recyclable in C&D Waste," Ken Sandler, BioCycle, November 2003

All of the dumpsters are brought back
to our facility where the material is
separated, and sent to different recycling
centers to be remade into new products.