recycling in grand junction
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Recycling in Grand Junction
A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallonsof bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers --make sure they're recycled!
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C urbside Recycling!y P roducts to be recycled:AluminumSteel cans
CardboardMagazinesGlassNewspaperP lastic : milk jugs, clear plastic
bottles..etc.
y Call 242-1036 for Curbsideinformation and service$1.75 a month they providecontainers
y Grand Junction area onlyy W aste Management in
C lifton and Palisade :$2.00 a month, provide
containers, paper, cardboard,aluminum, plastic243-4345
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Wh ere you can take your recycling materials if you don·t h ave curbside?
W aste Management C ity of GJy 1227W inters Drive, GJ y 2553 River Road, GJ
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O th er items to recycle!y T ires - Discount Tires $3242-0444y B atteries-
434-4237Interstate Batteries- Cliftony M otor Oil- up to 4 gallonsChecker Auto Cliftony Ch ristmas Tree·s, trees,
grass, s h rubsMESA County Compost Facility
y Plastic Grocery Sacks-Albertson·s andW al- Marty A nti-freeze, paint,
ch
emicalsMesa County HazardousW asteFacility
y F urniture andA ppliances can be reused by:
GoodW illSalvation Army
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H ow muc h energy do we saverecycling?AMAZINGFACTS!
y A used aluminum can is recycled and backon the grocery shelf as a new can, in as littleas 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its
finest!y A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a
day on the amount of energy saved byrecycling 1 pound of steel. In one year in
the United States, the recycling of steelsaves enough energy to heat and light18,000,000 homes!
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SAVE A TREE Recycle Newspapers!y To produce each week's
Sunday newspapers,500,000 trees must be cutdown. Recycling a singlerun of the SundayNew York
Times would save 75,000trees.
y The amount of wood andpaper we throw away eachyear is enough to heat50,000,000 homes for 20years.
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P lastic wastes energy!
y Americans use 2,500,000plastic bottles every hour!Most of them are thrownaway!P lastic bags andother plastic garbagethrown into the ocean killas many as 1,000,000 seacreatures every year!
y Recycling plastic savestwice as much energy as burning it in anincinerator.
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Glass can be recycled!
Just takes time to do it!y The energy saved from
recycling one glass bottle can
run a 100-watt light bulb forfour hours. It also causes 20%less air pollution and 50%less water pollution thanwhen a new bottle is madefrom raw materials. Amodern glass bottle wouldtake 4000 years or more todecompose -- and evenlonger if it's in the landfill.
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Wh o wastes t h e most?y The US population discards each
year 16,000,000,000 diapers,1,600,000,000 pens,2,000,000,000 razor blades,220,000,000 car tires, and enoughaluminum to rebuild the UScommercial air fleet four timesover.
y The U.S. is the #1 trash-producingcountry in the world at 1,609pounds per person per year. Thismeans that 5% of the world'speople generate 40% of the world'swaste.
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Wh at can h appen in a landfill w h enpeople dispose c h emicals?y P aint, plasticsy Oil, gasoliney Computer partsy
Trees (full of nitrogen)y W et food garbagey Metalsy Household cleanersy
Fireworksy Ammoy Blood and wastes
W hat can we manage thePH ?
W hat can happen to thewater surrounding thelandfill? Gunnison Riverand theW ater table belowthe landfill
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