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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!



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



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



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



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!



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.



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.



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.



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.



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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