Recycling: Do Your Part!

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What’s Your Responsibility? What kinds of things do you recycle? What kinds of things don’t you recycle? How often do you throw away recyclable objects? Why? Whose responsibility is it to make sure materials get recycled? What can you do to increase recycling rates in your family, school, community or country?

Who Benefits Most From Recycling? Who is hurt the most when we don’t recycle? How is your life and the lives of others affected by the decision to NOT recycle?

Energy Use Recycling aluminum takes about 95% less energy than making new aluminum. How long do you think you could power a 100-watt light bulb if you recycle one aluminum can? • 8 Minutes • 25 Seconds • 20 Hours • 3 Days 1

Your Effect If you recycle one aluminum can per day for your whole life, how long do you think you could power a home with the energy savings? • 6 Months • 3-4 Years • 20 Years • 65-70 Years

Energy Use Americans throw away around 2.5 million plastic bottles an hour. Aside from causing a huge amount of pollution, this is also a huge waste of energy. How long do you think you could run a 60-watt light bulb with the energy saved from recycling a single bottle? a. 30 Minutes b. 3 Hours c. 10 Days d. 15 Seconds 2

Energy Use While the raw material that goes into making glass – sand – is cheap, making new glass still requires significant energy. How long do you think you could run a 100-watt light bulb using the energy saved from recycling a single glass bottle? • 3 Seconds • 25 Minutes • 4 Hours • 7 Days 1

The Rea$on To Recycle Since you live in Maine, you can get 5 or 15 cents for every redeemable bottle that you recycle! You wouldn’t throw your money in the garbage would you?

The Life Cycle of a Deposit 1. Bottle Distributor 2. The Store starts the chain by selling the product to the store and receiving the nickel deposit per can sold gets the nickel back when you buy the product 3. YOU get back the nickel you paid the store when the product is redeemed at a redemption center 4. The Redemption Center (CLYNK) bills the bottle distributor for the nickel after you redeem the product, thereby closing the loop or throw the can away, BREAKING the chain!

Think That Won’t Add Up? On average, one bag full of bottles and cans is worth between $3 and $4.

Is It Recyclable? YES! Paper

Is It Recyclable? NO! Used Napkin

Is It Recyclable? YES! Milk Jug

Is It Recyclable? YES! Cereal Box

Is It Recyclable? NO! Used Pizza Box

Is It Recyclable? YES! KetchupBottle

Is It Recyclable? NO! Styrofoam

Is It Recyclable? NO! Plastic Bags

Is It Recyclable? YES! Plastic Shopping Bags

You Can Have An Impact! If every American recycled just one more aluminum can per week, we would remove over 17 billion cans from landfills each year! 3

Now You Know… So now that you know how important recycling is. Get out there and do something about it! One of the easiest things to do is to begin recycling 100% of your own bottles and cans…

Now You Know… To view a video showing how CLYNK recycles, click the link below CLYNK-How it Works

Activity: The Recycling Cycle

Sources for Factual Material • 1-"Environmental Factoids | WasteWise | US EPA." US Environmental Protection Agency. EPA, 28 July 2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2011 • 2-"Recycle Facts | Labels for Recycling | Single Sort Stream Comingled Mixed Recycling." Recycle Across America | Recycling Labels Decals Signs Stickers Compost Waste. Environmental Advancement Foundation. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. <http://www.recycleacrossamerica.org/recycling-fact.html>. • 3-"Alcoa: News: Alcoa TV." Alcoa Inc. -- Primary Aluminum (aluminium) and Fabricated Aluminum Products. ALCOA INC. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. <http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/alcoa_video.asp?videoid=129>.

Recycling: Do Your Part!