Recycle Mania!

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Recycle Mania _at_ CSUSubmitted by Jennifer
HoltzmannResident AssistantColorado State
University I created this bulletin board to
promote Recycle Mania in my hall (we were in the
lead among the other halls on campus). Some of
the information pertains specifically to CSU. It
is useful for promoting recycling and waste
minimization.
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Recycle Mania _at_ CSU

• Recycle Mania is a ten-week event, from Jan. 27th
  through April 5th.
• The main goal is to increase student awareness of
  campus recycling and waste minimization.
• Currently, CSU is in first place for Grand
  Champion nationwide (CU is 28th).
• Lets keep up the good work!

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Recycling Facts Metals

• 350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute!
• More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any
  other product.
• Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part
  of a new can within six weeks.
• An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be
  a can 500 years from now!

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Recycling Facts Glass

• Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles
  and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper.
• The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle
  can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It
  also causes 20 less air pollution and 50 less
  water pollution than when a new bottle is made
  from raw materials.
• A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or
  more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in
  the landfill.

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Recycling Facts Paper

• Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York
  Times would save 75,000 trees.
• If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save
  about 250,000,000 trees each year!
• When you smell a dump, what you're actually
  smelling is the paper in the dump!

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Recycling Facts Plastic

• Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every
  hour!
• Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown
  into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea
  creatures every year!
• Every year we make enough plastic film to
  shrink-wrap Texas.

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What Can I Recycle?

• Cardboard
• Beverage Containers
• Plastic
• With a 1 or 2 on it
• Aluminum or Steel
• Paper
• Newspaper, bulk mail, magazines, among others

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How Can I Recycle?

• Set up a recycling bin in your room.
• The tan bin CSU provides in your room works
  perfectly!
• Separate paper, plastic and aluminum, and
  cardboard when you take out your recycling.
• It only takes a few minutes more than it would to
  simply throw everything in the dumpster

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How Can I Recycle?

• Reduce the amount you buy or use.
• Use a hand towel to clean messes, rather than a
  paper towel.
• Reuse the things you can.
• Save and reuse plastic grocery bags instead of
  throwing them away.

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