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What Can I Recycle

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What Can I Recycle

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    1. What Can I Recycle? Tewksbury

    2. You CAN Recycle Newspapers

    3. You CAN Recycle Magazines

    4. You CAN Recycle Junk Mail Envelopes with windows are fine!

    5. You CAN Recycle Cereal and Other Boxes

    6. You CAN Recycle All Metal Cans

    7. You CAN Recycle Plastic #1 - #7

    8. What Is Not Allowed? Trash collectors will not pick up visible recyclables or hazardous items. Plastic bags cause problems in the sorting operation and should be recycled at grocery stores. Mercury is toxic and all mercury containing items, including small fluorescent lights should be brought to: Town Hall or Board of Health (mercury-containing thermometers, switches, liquid mercury, thermostats) DPW (fluorescent light bulbs – 3rd Sat. of the month) or Aubuchon Hardware

    9. NO Plastic Bags in the Recycling Bin

    10. Please Recycle Cardboard; the Trash Truck Will NO LONGER Pick up Cardboard Boxes

    11. Please Place Cardboard With Recycling

    12. Cardboard 2’x3’ and Taped = OK

    13. Cardboard 2’x3’ and Tied = OK

    14. ALL Fluorescent Bulbs Have Mercury and Will Be Left Behind

    15. TVs and Monitors – Schedule a Pickup with Appliance Recyclers (for a small fee) - 781-270-9227

    16. Where Do My Recyclables Go?

    17. How Are They Sorted? They go on conveyors into the facility to be sorted mechanically and manually.

    18. The Recyclables are Sorted by Type, …

    19. And Baled for Shipment to Markets

    20. Then, Where Do They Go? Paper is shipped to local mills in MA, Canada, or overseas to China depending on market prices. Plastics and metal bales go to re-processors. Glass is often used as landfill cover or road base and sometimes to make new glass products.

    21. What Do They Make With Metal? Recycled aluminum mostly goes back into aluminum. Americans and the aluminum industry recycled 51.4 billion aluminum cans in 2005, for a beverage can recycling rate of 52 percent.

    22. What Do They Do With “Tin” Cans? Steel from tin/steel cans is recycled into everything made with steel from cars to steel beams. When one ton of steel is recycled, 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone are conserved.

    23. What Uses Recycled Plastic? Recycled plastics are used in a wide variety of products including rugs, fiberfill for sleeping bags and winter jackets, and plastic wood decking materials.

    24. Paper Is In Demand Worldwide Mills in Massachusetts compete with mills in Canada, China, India and Brazil for recycled paper Recycled paper is made into cereal boxes Cardboard into new cardboard Newspaper into new newspaper And there are many other uses China has the world’s largest and newest recycled paper mills

    25. 51.5% of Paper is Recycled But It Could Be More! 1 ton newsprint = 12 trees 1 ton of office paper = 24 trees

    26. How Does Recycling Benefit Us? Every ton recycled is a ton we don’t have to pay to incinerate, saving the Town tax money. We pay for every ton of trash to be collected and pay more to have it burned in the incinerator. We pay to collect the recyclables but they are marketed and sold at no cost to us. We don’t have money to burn, do we?

    27. Keep Up The Good Work! Thank You For Recycling!

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