How Recycling Reduced My Trash by Fifty Percent

Recycling paper packaging from the dozens of products that enter our home each week helps reduce our trash by at least 50%. 

Instead of tossing the paper packaging, break it down and set it aside in a large bin or bag and then every few weeks bring it to the park and ride lot at the end of Rte 32 bypass. Look for a big bin labeled GreenFiber.

Once you start paying closer attention, you might be amazed how many of the products you buy contain paper packaging. Here, in this picture, is a small sampling of some of the products we buy that contain paper packaging.

Here's a sampling of what GreenFiber collects:

• newspapers
• cereal boxes
• brown paper bags
• paper packaging
• magazine
• phone books
• office paper
• cardboard

It's so easy to recycle this paper. Instead of throwing it away, we just fold it and set it aside in a big bag. Then, every few weeks when I'm heading to the Town Park, Line Drive ball fields, or a friends house, I make a quick stop at the park and ride bins and empty the bag into the Green Fiber bin.

Best of all, a company called GreenFiber takes the cardboard from bins all over the  country and turns it into natural fiber insulation for your home or business! That's right, you can head right over to Lowes in Glenmont and buy it. Very cool.

Looking to go green in your business? Call GreenFiber and ask about their recycling plan where they pay you for your paper. They'll even bring a bin to your business.

Comments

[Texas shredding]

Aside from plastic containers, we can also reuse or recycled used papers and wood - all we need is the right attitude and correct guidance on how to do it. May this example serve as a wake-up call to those who take for granted the
importance of recycling not just to us but to the environment as well.
With blogs such as this, hopefully more and more people will be able to get the idea of waste reduction and proper waste disposal.

[DSS San Antonio]

We can recycle almost anything that we have - paper, plastic, even old or broken electronic devices. They can even become works of art, all it takes is our creativity:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/e03b5908-58b1-42c9-a02b-336fdaa9d9a4/cut-paper-art-001
By not wasting papers and other plastic products, by turning over old microchips and hard drives for safe destruction shredding, by reusing and recycling items - you can definitely make a difference.