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How to Recycle Everything
Posted by LIME Team on May 30, 2007 - 5:39pm.
There's more to recycling than melting down plastic soda bottles to make new plastic soda bottles. These days you can recycle everything from toothbrushes to your wedding dress, turn medicine bottles into life jackets and old running shoes into new playground surfacing-how's that for reincarnation? Discover how and where to recycle everything you never thought you could...
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I always recycle them, but these days, who needs them to begin with?
Chris
I have a dvd player that has gone kaput on me and I need to know how to recycle it because it's pretty much just a pile of plastic and circuit boards...any suggestions??
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
T
Check out www.earthpro.com/electronics.htm they have a listng or many states electronic recovery programs.
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In 2000 nearly £30 million was thrown away in the form of empty aluminium cans. Used aluminium cans are valuable as they can be recycled time and time again without loss of quality. We can make quality aluminium for vehicles let's say truck parts like truck exhaust, for bicycle and motors, etc., Up to 95% of the energy needed to produce new aluminium ore is saved by recycling. There are a number of methods for recycling your cans:
* Kerbside recycling box
* Public can banks
* Local charities
* Local metal merchants
I do believe that Circuit City will recycle electronics for you.
Happy Recycling!
When lamps are sent to landfills, or especially when incineration is used as an alternative disposal method, mercury vapors are released that can travel over 200 miles! It is highly toxic to the human nervous system and particularly poisonous to the kidneys. Once absorbed by the body, mercury is distributed by the blood to all tissues of the human body, and it easily crosses the placental barrier; prenatal exposure can lead to a variety of health problems including a severe form of cerebral palsy.
Check this out!
http://www.lamprecycling.com
I heard the other day that when you recycle a plastic bottle with the lid screwed on they throw the whole bottle away! True ? I hope not
I can say that it is true in New York...not sure about the rest of the country...
Recycling, waste removal etc. is heavily "policed" here in NYC, the department of sanition regularly cruises through the neighborhoods writing some pricey tickets....my residents of my building just got a notice about making sure we removed the caps from bottles....
Not sure if they are automatically thrown away....but I also don't want to pay the ticket if I get one for not doing something as simple as removing a cap from a bottle.
So, instead of simply throwing your Christmas tree out for the garbage, do something to help the environment! You can get your tree shredded, which makes excellent mulch or even take it to a tree recycling drop-off center in your neighborhood. It's simple things like this that will make a big difference if everyone chips in. Find out more information here:
http://earth911.org/search-recycle?what=Christmas+Tree