Housekeeping and Home Organization

Recycle Center Trash

By Admin on February 6th, 2010

Recycle Center Trash

Does you family recycle aluminum cans? Do they do it to get a little extra cash or because it is the responsible thing to do? How much do they, and you, know about what happens to the can after the soda is gone? Here is a quick true and false quiz on recycling. It will only take 2 or 3 minutes to find out what you know and what you need to know about the importance of families recycling.

Circle the answer for each of the 6 questions. Now test the other members of the family.

1. In the time it takes you to read this question, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.

                  True or False

2. When you recycle one aluminum can you save enough energy to equal a half gallon of gasoline?

                  True or False

3. There is no limit to the amount of times aluminum can be recycled.

                  True or False

4. We use over 80,000,000,000 (billion!) cans a year.

                  True or False

5. At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold.

                  True or False

6. More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.

                  True or False

Surprise! All of the answers are true.

Did you know that for every $10 spent buying things $1 or 10% goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging, and that includes aluminum cans, represents 65% of household trash. Wow. What a waste of money and resources. We can do better than that.

Our family is making a special effort to Recycle, Reuse and Reduce. Will you join us in helping to protecting our earth and natural resources? Maybe your family could put up a special box to save aluminum cans for the recycling center.

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Does anyone know how I can bring recycling to my college town?

I live in a town in Louisiana that is an hour away from two metropolitans, one north one south. Though this is a small town, we also have a lot of people because we have a college here. This is a great town that would be able to recycle products other than just cans, such as plastics and glass and maybe even tires. Currently we have no recycling center here or anything, just trash pick up. Does anyone know of any companies or anything that I could contact and plead my case to? thanks

Many trash companies offer recycling opportunities. Call your trash company. See what they have to offer.

My trash company recycles my trash for me. I don't have to separate anything.

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