Recycle 2 Save

We talk all the time about the amount of waste that a single person creates daily (with staggering amounts contributed to households and businesses). It's also been pointed out that despite you not opening your car window and chucking it out that when you throw it "away" it has to go somewhere. At this point it is handled the best way that we know how but much of that involves the "stuff" being buried. We know that practices are in place to keep us safe and regulations watch that the trash we bury doesn't contaminate the soil or water around us. We also know that no system is ever 100% failsafe. Based on that.. we have tried to find ways to encourage residents and businesses to recycle more and waste or trash less. Obviously recycling is the option that we most often suggest. Reduction in both consumption and waste is another key component of the three R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycling.. just in case you need a refresher). Although most people understand t...

I am environmentally/recycling minded. I know that recycling creates true results and the opposite has it's own very real (negative) consequences as well. Yet, I was still dumbfounded by this statistic provided by Busch Systems. First the fact that our current recycling rate is 34.5% is craziness, and the results of pushing that rate up to 75% is phenomenal. I know that we are all capable and it's really not that hard. We challenge you, start small, recycle something today that you never had before. Walk a few extra steps to the recycling bin, drop your household collection of groceries bags off at the grocery store (don't keep them and then get fed up and throw them away). Your very simple choices have a very real impact; one bottles, one can, one bag at a time, we (YOU) can be the change.