Recycling is a business from collecting, cleaning, distributing and creating new products. Currently, 1.5 million tons of trash is diverted from landfills by recycling and reducing waste. Most cities have recycling programs, call your city service department for guidelines. How do we improve our recycling rates? Rates can improve when schools and workplaces start to recycle, instilling recycling as a good habit. Unfortunately, residential recycling is declining in our County and throughout the U.S.
Why should people recycle? Recycling saves land and natural resources. Also, products made with recyclable material use less energy in the manufacturing process.
Recycling Classroom Activities
Grades K-3: Treasures from Trash
Grades 4-6: When they're gone, they're gone
Grades 7-9: ISW: Recycling Logos and Production Process
Grades 10-12: Lifecycles and Recycling
Web Resources for Recycling
Top 100 Recycling Sites
Facts on recycling and recyclables
Global Recycling network
Grassroot recycling network
National Recycling Coalition
Secondary Materials and Recycled Textile Association
American Plastics Council
National Association for PET Container Resource
Recycled Products Purchasing Cooperative (RPPC)
Glass Packaging Institute
Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries
Corrugated packaging council
Fibre Box Association
Modern Plastics
Newspaper Association of American
The National Plastics Center & Museum
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