Daily Green Audit Tip: Trash Control
This week’s audit is trash control. Knowing how much trash you have and how to have less.
Today’s tip is a rundown of what’s recyclable. Almost everything is somewhat recyclable. Of course, some things more than others.
As you audit your trash this week, here are some items you should not see in the garbage can. All of these items have the potential to be recycled. Later this week we’ll look at how.
Paper: This one is obvious. Don’t throw paper in the garbage can. That means - basic white paper, notebooks, sticky notes, index cards, newspaper, junk mail, magazines, food packaging, old homework assignments, books, toilet paper and paper towel rolls, and more. If it’s paper-like at all, there’s a good chance it’s recyclable.
Plastics: There’s limited recycling possibilities here. Plastics, because of their properties, are very hard to recycle. Still, you should not have plastic soda, juice, or milk jugs in the trash. If you’re seeing a lot of plastic in the trash, your best bet is to quit buying items that come in plastic.
Glass: Highly recyclable. Glass is easily melted down and reformed. For every ton of recycled crushed glass we can produce we save around 30 gallons of oil - it takes less energy to recycle glass into new forms than to make new glass out of sand (glass is mostly sand).
Metals: Tin foil, soup cans, soda cans; really almost anything made of tin, steel, and aluminum can be broken down and re-made into something useful. Make sure you don’t have this in your trash.
Misc garbage: Batteries, clothing, old paint, solvents, tires, some food, and old cds are some misc things you can recycle.
So far, we’ve eliminated almost all trash items. If you do a real trash audit this week - a complete audit - you should be down to almost no trash. Some of this involves extra steps though. Later this week we’ll look at more solutions.
Now, how is your trash looking?
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