In the last two days we have recycled the following items:
Plastic: 1.25 pounds
Cans: 3 small cat food, 1 small coke can
Glass: 1 wine bottle, 1 olive jar
Post consumer Paper: 1/3 pound
Corrugated boxes: 1 pound
Paper: 1/8 pound
That’s over 2 pounds of stuff.
Our city (Staunton, VA ) http://www.staunton.va.us/ picks up weekly with our trash, plastics (1-7), cans, glass (clear, brown and green) and newspapers as long as it isn’t raining. In our city there is a big green recycling bin that we take our corrugated boxes (broken down flat) and then for our paper and post consumer paper we have a short drive to the county to recycle that. We typically go every 6 weeks to recycle for our corrugated and post consumer paper.
The pizza box we recycled was close to 1 pound. If you eat 1 pizza every week that is almost 52 pounds a year.
It is amazing the amount of over engineering that goes into the packaging in alot of things we purchase. I’m sure companies want shelf attention but it is just plain wasteful.
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