Prepared for Enterprise Community Partners Waste Recycling Exercise

Prepared for Enterprise Community Partners

Waste & Recycling Exercise 1 Discover What You Can Recycle • Complete Step 1 of the exercise by indicating which items you currently recycle Enterprise Community Partners | 2 GREEN & HEALTHY LIVING: Waste & Recycling

Why Recycle? Each American generates 4. 5 lbs of waste per day… Enterprise Community Partners | 3 GREEN & HEALTHY LIVING: Waste & Recycling

Why Recycle? Americans generate 4. 5 lbs of waste per day… …and over 1, 600 pounds per year. Enterprise Community Partners | 4 GREEN & HEALTHY LIVING: Waste & Recycling

Why Recycle? Only 30% is Recycled …but much more could be. Enterprise Community Partners | 5 GREEN & HEALTHY LIVING: Waste & Recycling

Why Recycle? • Reduce Landfilling • In volume, Americans landfill over 167 million tons of trash – equivalent to the weight of 104 million cars • Landfills can contaminate drinking water Source: Recycle. Racoon Source: US EPA Enterprise Community Partners | 6 GREEN & HEALTHY LIVING: Waste & Recycling

Why Recycle? • Reduce Energy Use and Greenhouse Gasses • Materials made from recycled materials use less energy since virgin sources do not need mining and refining • It takes 95% less energy to produce an aluminum can from recycled cans than raw ore from a mine Source: US EPA Enterprise Community Partners | 7 GREEN & HEALTHY LIVING: Waste & Recycling

What Can You Recycle? • Paper • Newspaper • Office Paper • Magazines • Paper Bags • Junk Mail • Egg Cartons • Aseptic Cartons Source: City of Denver Milk & Juice • Cardboard Boxes Clean pizza boxes (no food or oil stains) Source: City of Cambridge Enterprise Community Partners | 8 GREEN & HEALTHY LIVING: Waste & Recycling

What Can You Recycle? • Metal • Canned Food • Aluminum cans • Aluminum Foil (clean) • Rinse out food Source: City of High Point Enterprise Community Partners | 9 GREEN & HEALTHY LIVING: Waste & Recycling

What Can You Recycle? • Glass • Jars • Bottles • No broken glass • Rinse out food from jars Source: City of Greensboro Enterprise Community. LIVING: Partners | 10 GREEN & HEALTHY Waste & Recycling

What Can You Recycle? Plastic • There are 7 types of plastic, identifiable by the triangle with a number in the middle. • Look for the symbol on the bottom of the bottle • Certain numbers may not be recyclable in your area. Enterprise Community. LIVING: Partners | 11 GREEN & HEALTHY Waste & Recycling

What Can You Recycle? Plastic Recyclable in our area: NOT recyclable in our area: **move symbols to correct column for your area Source: Mom. Goes. Green. com Look for the Plastic ID, usually on the underside of a plastic container Enterprise Community. LIVING: Partners | 12 GREEN & HEALTHY Waste & Recycling

Waste & Recycling Exercise 1 Discover What You Can Recycle • Complete Step 2 of the exercise by indicating which items you currently recycle Enterprise Community. LIVING: Partners | 13 GREEN & HEALTHY Waste & Recycling

Set Up a Home Recycle Center • **Recyclables need to be sorted by XXXXXXX • In the kitchen, instead of one can, have two cans – Place all plastics, metals, and glass in one can – Put everything else in the 2 nd can • In the living room, have one can dedicated to paper – Place all paper products in one can – All other trash in the 2 nd can • Take out the recycling when you take out the trash Enterprise Community. LIVING: Partners | 14 GREEN & HEALTHY Waste & Recycling

Where Do You Deposit Your Recycled Items? • **Insert a picture or diagram/floorplan of where residents should leave items Enterprise Community. LIVING: Partners | 15 GREEN & HEALTHY Waste & Recycling