Recycling Business Assistance Center RBAC

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Recycling From Bin to Products
Jennifer Caldwell-Kurka Environmental
Specialist Florida Department of Environmental
Protection Recycling Program 2600 Blair Stone Rd.
MS 4570 Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400 850/487-4937
Suncom 277-4937 Jennifer.Caldwell-Kurka_at_dep.state
.fl.us www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/recycl
ing/pages/resources.htm
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Waste Not, Want Not

• Garbage or resource?
• From Bin to Products
• What You Can Do!

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Wasted Resources
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Municipal Solid Waste
24.8 million tons/1998
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Recyclables Have Value!
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What is Recycling?
Product
Collection
Manufacturing
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Litter - Lost Resources
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Collection Infrastructure
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Buybacks
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Drop off Convenience Centers
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Curbside Collection
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Commercial Collection
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Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)
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Tipping Floor
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Plastic Bottles
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A Closer look at Tipping
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Sorting
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Processing
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Bales of Cardboard
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Transporting
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Manufacturing New Products
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Milk jugs to Lumber
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New Products
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Dial 1-800-CLEANUP
www.1800cleanup.org/StatePrograms/States/Florida/f
l.htm
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Web Resources
FDEP Recycling Program www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/
categories/recycling Electronics Recycling
Information www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/
electronics Center for Solid Hazardous
Waste www.floridacenter.org
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What You Can Do...
REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE BUY RECYCLED