Boro-Wide Recycling Corp.
Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656
1: Going Green Will Save You Money
When you recycle, you are not only helping your natural environment, but you can help your community cut costs for waste management and garbage retrieval. Did you know aluminum cans alone could pay for the entire curbside collection? That’s right—aluminum cans are the most valuable recyclable item, so the next time you feed the dog, make tuna salad, or use anything that comes from a can, be sure to give the aluminum a good rinse and place it in your recycling bin so you and your neighborhood can start saving some green!
2: Recycling Preserves Scarce Resources
In 2004, Pennsylvanians recycled over 1 million tons of steel and were able to save 1.3 million tons of iron ore, 718,000 tons of coal, and 62,000 tons of limestone as a result. But that’s not all—residents in Pennsylvania also saved more than 8.2 million trees by recycling office paper, mixed paper, and newsprint. Let’s give Pennsylvania a run for their money and make New York the place with recycling habits to brag about!
3: Recycling Saves Energy
If enough people recycle, we can significantly drive down energy costs and increase efficiency. After all, the energy needed to make a single new aluminum can could instead be used to produce 20 aluminum cans from recycled material, so don’t toss another can unless you’re aiming for the recycling bin!
4: Recycling Increases Community
Throughout the United States, more and more people are working together in free recycle organizations, lobbies, and curbside recycling programs to promote recycling and keep Mother Nature looking beautiful. Recycling benefits communities as a whole, so encourage friends and neighbors to follow your lead and recycle used goods!
5: Recycling Creates Jobs
The more you recycle, the more jobs you’ll create! Just 10,000 tons of waste can create 43 new jobs: 1 job for incinerating the waste, 6 jobs for landfilling the waste, and 36 jobs for recycling it!
6: Recycling Can Improve Our Economy
Recycling helps to the economy by not only creating jobs, but also reduces energy costs and conserves resources as well. The practice of recycling and conserving plastic material has become increasingly popular in the past few years, as the price of oil has increased to nearly $120 per barrel. Every little bit helps, and the more you recycle your plastic containers, the more we can help our country save on oil.
7: Recycling Helps Our Planet
Remember, when we don’t recycle to our full potential, the chances of our underground water systems becoming contaminated with dangerous chemicals and heavy metals will only increase, and air pollution is yet another ever-present reminder of the negative repercussions we will suffer if we don’t recycle. Even if we only recycle 35% of our trash, we can reduce as much pollution as if 36 million cars were taken off the road, and in 2006 the EPA estimated that the national recycling rate of 32.5% saved the United States energy equivalent to 10 billion gallons of gasoline.
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