Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Winter 2010
Beyond the Bin
So, you’re a Super Recycler. Of supplies, bags, toys, pet prod
course you use your curbside ucts , bottles and garden items.
bin[s] for all eligible items. You
Consumers can make some
take your #37 plastics to a extra cash by sending in their
drop off center, your plastic “trash” to Terracycle. Drop it off
bags back to the store, and at one of the thousands of par
never think about discarding ticipating locations or join a
scrap metal items or batteries. “brigade” to raise money for
But, there’s a world beyond of schools or nonprofits.
other recycling opportunities Tennis Balls:
that the your town or the
collected for recycling. Ori Rebounces.com accepts old
county don’t provide to you.
gins.com was the pioneer na tennis balls for recycling or
Here’s some ideas for you to
tionwide cosmetic company to refurbishing. The company will
increase your recycling reach:
offer consumer cosmetic packag even email you a prepaid ship
Blue Jeans— ing recycling, regardless of ping label to cover your ex
Resource Roundup
brand. Empty cosmetic tubes, penses. Those brightly colored
Those too warn to donate to a bottles, lipstick covers, jars and tennis balls should still be of
charity can be sent to companies caps can be brought to an Ori reasonable quality, and you
like greenjeansinsulation.com gins retail store or department should wait until you’ve saved
and bondedlogic.com who store counter nationwide for up a large amount.
manufacture toxic and itchfree recycling or energy recovery
household insulation from recy [incineration..not the best way Golf Balls:
cled denim and cotton fibers. to recover the items’ energy!]
Both accept donated jeans from MACcosmetics.com accepts its According to DixonGolf.com ,
the public, which are recycled packaging back for recycling more than 300 million golf balls
into natural fiber insulation used either instore or online are discarded in the U.S. each
CABARRUS COUNTY SOLID WASTE
for interior and exterior walls and year. That’s enough golf balls to
ceiling applications. Snack and Candy Wrappers— make a solid line from Los An
geles to London! You can bring
Cosmetic Containers— TerraCycle.net has made a name in any brand golf balls to a
of creatively reusing these snack
Cosmetic and toiletry bottles, Dixon Golf retail location or
wrappers, drink pouches, candy
tubes and containers are com mail them in for recycling.
wrappers and chip bags. The
monly made of plastic #5, which Recycling Dixon brand golf balls
company turns them into school
is not a common material will earn you $1 each one.
Curbside for KTown?
Curbside recycling may yet be proposing to use a 96 gallon The program would apply to
on its way to Kannapolis resi rollout container, the same size single family residences. The
dents. City Council recently as a resident’s trash cart, into funding mechanism has yet to
authorized staff to solicit pro which residents would mix all be determined; a general tax
posals from curbside recycling household recyclables. That’s increase has been discussed,
service providers, and if they right, paper, plastic and glass however a user fee may be the
determine that a proposal is bottles and cans in one con preferred route.
satisfactory, the program could tainer. This form of recycling is
For more information on the
start by the end of the year. called “singlestream” and is
status of the program, or how
made possible due to Mecklen
you can encourage its passage,
Based on research by city staff burg County’s conversion of their
contact Renee Goodnight, Com
and their Environmental Stew recycling processing facility to
munity Outreach Coordinator, at
ardship Commission, made up accept such mixed recyclables.
7049204311 or email
of concerned citizens, the city is rgoodnight@cityofkannapolis.com
Have a recycling question?? Email us at
recycle@cabarruscounty.us
Curbside Recycling Update
A new USEPA study has shown that 44%
of US carbon emissions causing global Acceptable Items:
warming come from extraction, produc Household Paper— Newspaper, Magazines, Junk
tion, sale and disposal of products! By mail, Office/School Papers, Cereal and Dryfood
contrast, personal transportation gener Boxes, Phonebooks. Any household paper except
ates about 20% tissue products, foodcontaminated paper, milk
cartons, juice boxes, fast food cups, or “spiral
cans” [think “doughboy”].
Rev-Up Your
Your curbside recycling bin is one of
your best tools to help you to reduce
this pollution. Using it saves the energy
Containers— Aluminum and Steel Cans, Plastic
Bottles and Jars [#1 and #2 ONLY], Glass Bottles and
Jars [Clear, Green or Brown]. NO plastic bags,
Recycling!
which is contained in these products,
motor oil bottles, drinking or window glass,
reduces pollution and carbon emissions [Quick tips on how to improve your recycling
ceramics, scrap metal, hangers, or spray cans.
efforts to get maximum environmental “mileage”]
and saves more resources from having County dropoff recycling sites will continue to take
to be extracted from nature. If you’re plastics #1, 2, 4, 5, 6 [no Styrofoam] and 7. HHW
Facility will take oil bottles and spray cans.
not using your curbside recycling bin, Keep your paper dry!
why not join the majority of Cabarrus Corrugated Cardboard— Flatten and stack next to
County residents who do? bin. 3’ x 3’ maximum size; no WAXED cardboard. It’s not a topic which we’ve needed to address
over the past several droughty years, but now
that it’s raining [and snowing]—please protect