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Recycling / HHW

Texas Recycles Day 2008

we diverted 218,800 pounds of recyclables from the landfill!  

Keep Carrollton Beautiful is recycling     cell phones.

     Look for the bins in High School administrative offices and City buildings. You can support us by getting rid of your old cell phones PROPERLY!

Watch this to see WHY: http://www.secret-life.org/cellphones/

City of Carrollton

Recycling Rewards Program   http://www.cityofcarrollton.com/news.asp#recycling

                       CURBSIDE RECYCLING FOR                                 SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS
     Recyclables are collected from the blue 95-gallon rolling recycling carts on your regular weekly collection day. Simply drop all recyclables into the blue recycling cart. Do not place any recyclables in plastic bags. To find out if you are a yellow week or a blue week, please go to www.cityofcarrollton.com/solidwaste.  If you have questions, please call Allied Waste Services at 972-422-2341or go to www.awin.com.

Aluminum cans       (rinse - no foil or aluminum pans)	Glass bottles and jars of any color (rinse containers and discard lids)	Plastic bottles and jugs  #1 through #7 (rinse containers and discard lids)	Boxboard (such as cereal and cracker boxes -  discard liners)
Newspaper (no need to bundle separately)	Magazines, catalogs and junk mail	Aerosol cans	Paper bags
Phone books	Office and school paper (any color)	Cardboard (flatten large pieces and place beneath recycling bin)	Steel and tin cans     (rinse containers and discard lids)
			(Graphics - City of Denton)

Placement of recyclables

       Place blue roll-out recycling carts curbside —no need to presort. Place blue bin at least 3 feet away from green roll-out container with arrow facing the street, mailboxes, gas meters, fences, parked cars and other obstacles.

Items not accepted
Plastic bags; food-soiled paper products or pizza boxes; waxed cartons; kitchen waste, yard waste or trash; batteries of any kind; hardback books; Household Hazardous Waste or toxic containers; chemical; tires; plastic takeout containers or utensils; Styrofoam;  scrap aluminum; or foil.
                                                                      
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See how much less trash you have?

Allied Waste Services Recycling Saves Energy*

We use enough plastic wrap to wrap all of Texas every year. Recycling a pound of PET plastic saves approximately 12,000 BTUs.  PET plastic, or Polyethylene Terephthalate, includes materials such as: soft drink bottles, water bottles, mouthwash bottles, peanut butter containers, salad dressing containers, juice bottles and vegetable oil bottles. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours, or to operate a television for three hours.  Tossing away one aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that can’s volume, if it were filled with gasoline.  Americans throw away enough aluminum cans to rebuild an entire commercial air fleet every three months. Every year enough paper is thrown away to make a 12-foot wall from New York to California. Energy saved each year recycling steel would power Los Angeles for eight years. Recycling decreases the burning of fossil fuels and lessens the carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons emitted into the atmosphere. In addition, recycling slows the harvest of trees, maintaining the carbon dioxide conversion benefit of forests. Making paper uses more water per ton than any other product in the world. If we recycled every plastic bottle, we would keep 2 billion tons of plastic out of landfills. Recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees and 7,000 gallons of water.  Recycling old paper rather than using new timber to produce paper saves 60 percent of the energy usually required. Every person in the United States generates almost five pounds of solid waste every day.

Multi-Family Housing Recycling                                                                                         (please call 972.466.2121 if your interested in getting a program started for multi-family housing)