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| − | '''Q-This section seems really good to me, in terms of amount of information. I wonder, though, if it is too much, and we should be more selective on what we share? Or perhaps have a main site and alternative links to find out more, as int he different kinds of recycling? Also, parts of the section need to be formatted as it will appear on the web page S.H.' ''
| + | The little why’s of Recycling: to divert the amount of waste going to landfills, to prevent pollution, to reduce greenhouse emissions and global climate change, to conserve resources, to save energy used for refining raw materials, and to help Earlham and the Richmond community benefit financially from the industry of recycling. |
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| − | ''Comment: It does seem like this might be an overwhelming amount of text...I agree with Scott's idea to incorporate a series of links (perhaps to each topic?) from a main page. Also, I assume there are citations for this information that we need to insert--or shall we just link over to the website that provided this info? MMS''
| + | The BIG why of Recycling - to love life enough to save it. The following quote is taken from Kellert, Stephen; Wilson, Edward O. (The Biophilia Hypothesis, Island Press/Shearwater, Washington D.C.: 1993) |
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| − | The little why: to save resources, to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills, and to conserve energy used to refine raw materials. Another reason is that recycling benefits Earlham and the city of Richmond financially. Earlham is charged for the trash it sends to the landfill, so not having as much trash to haul saves the college money. Also, Earlham is monetarily compensated for its bales of recycled corrugated cardboard; and, the city is compensated for recycled bales of plastic and for loads of glass, aluminum and other metals that are recycled by the Richmond Sanitary Department. | |
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| − | The BIG why - to love life enough to save it. The following quotes are taken from Kellert, Stephen; Wilson, Edward O. (The Biophilia Hypothesis, Island Press/Shearwater, Washington D.C.: 1993)
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| | The first revolution is mostly about technology and economics. The second | | The first revolution is mostly about technology and economics. The second |
| | revoloution is about morality and human purpose. The biophilia revolution | | revoloution is about morality and human purpose. The biophilia revolution |
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| − | '''Q-I like the first two paragraphs from Wilson, but the third one doesn't seem as directly relevant to me (and the quotation goes on a bit long). S.H.'''
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| − | ...Patriotism, the name we give to the love of one's country, must be
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| − | the idea of love of one's country to how well one uses the country. To
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| − | We might want to personalize our own website to contain the same types of information, only for Indiana. A couple of facts presented in the Richmond Sanitary District Recycling Program flyer:
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| − | Every day, an average American produces and throws away about 4 or 5 pounds
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| − | We can and will, with the help of recycling!
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| − | =='''RECYCLING INFORMATION ON CAMPUS (WHAT TO RECYCLE)'''==
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| − | WHAT TO RECYCLE
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| − | The following items can be recycled at Earlham:
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| − | *Plastics #1 and #2 (look at bottom of container and the number inside the triangle to determine a #1 or #2)
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| − | *Lead/acid Batteries
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| − | The following items can be recycled outside Earlham:
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| − | 1. Plastics #3-#7? see below ...
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| − | 2. Plastic shopping bags? collected in containers at Wal-mart ... see also below
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| − | 3. Thin cardboard? recycling facilities in Oxford, Ohio accept thin cardboard mingled with all forms of paper ... see also below
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| − | The closest paperboard (non-corrugated cardboard) recycling facility is East Central Recycling, 701, East Centennial, Muncie, In (765) 282-1900
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| − | Jason King of East Central Recycling roughly estimated a Richmond pick-up
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| − | East Central Recycling also buys baled corrugated cardboard, but Earlham is committed to recycling this material as well as office paper, newspaper, and plastics 1 & 2 through Richmond Sanitary Recycling.
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| − | A local facility that accepts bales of clean plastics, sorted by numbers 1 through 7, is My Way Trading, located at 308 NW "F" Street, Richmond, In. They've been in business here in Richmond for about 4 years and have been doing this for about 17 years total in other locations such as New Paris,Ohio.
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| − | Bo Mattix of My Way Trading says we could bale our #3 - #7 plastics, as long as they're clean, by placing a layer of cardboard at the bottom of the type of container we presently collect cardboard in, and another layer of cardboard at the top of a plastics load, then smash it with the cardboard baler, strap it, wrap it with shrink wrap, and place it on a skid. They would also take bales composed entirely of plastic shopping bags. The following quoted procedure was supplied by Bo:
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| − | On the plastic scrap it can be of mixed materials in bales from a baler,
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| − | What you can not have is any containers that had any chemicals in them( no
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| − | fast food products. Now we do work with Recycling Center and get plastic
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| − | Again, Earlham is committed to recycling plastics 1 & 2 through Richmond Sanitary Recycling.
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| − | ==HOW TO RECYCLE==
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| − | Office paper, newspaper, corrugated cardboard can be put directly in the appropriate bin and does not need to be shredded or otherwise cut. Office paper should have staples and tape removed, and glossy paper should be seperated and cannot be recycled with office paper. Corrugated cardboard boxes should be flattened before being placed in a bin.
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| − | Glass bottles, aluminum cans, and plastics #1 and #2 should be washed out if they are very dirty but otherwise can be placed directly in the blue comingle bins as is.
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| − | There are a number of locations on campus to recycle the items listed in the previous section:
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| − | *1. Residence Halls (dorms) - On every floor of every residence hall you should find bins for:
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| − | On one floor of each residence hall (almost always on the first floor) there should be a bin for newspaper. Students only have the responsibility of placing the proper items in the appropriate bins. Work-study students in charge of Recycling will come to empty bins on the hall each week. Contact xxx if your halls’ bin needs emptying.
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| − | *2. College Houses - In every college house there should be a big blue bin with a circle cut-out in the lid for both co-mingled items (see above) and office paper. College Houses should be recycling by bringing their bin out to the street for regular city pick-up as arranged by their AD. Contact:
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| − | *3. Academic/Administrative Buildings - On each floor of academic/administrative buildings you should find the following recycling bins:
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| − | **1) Tall, Blue, closed-top, co-mingled bin (for plastics #1 and #2, aluminum cans and glass bottles)
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| − | The current placement of these is sporadic. At the very least, most department offices have a red bin located near the copy machine. Blue co-mingled bins tend to be located in the hall for greater access to students and professors/administrators/staff.
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| − | *4. Runyan Center (student center) - Runyan Center has the following bins for recycling:
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| − | **4) Tall Blue bin for Co-mingled items (for plastics #1 and #2, aluminum cans and glass bottles)
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| − | *5. Outdoors - Currently there are no outdoor receptacles for recycling.
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| − | *7. Maintenance - The following items can be brought to Maintenance (located across from the side entrance to Hoerner and behind the Wellness center):
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| − | **2) corrugated cardboard- a dumpster is located between the back of maintenance and the big yellow equipment shed.
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| − | Newspaper bins are in the lobbies of all dormitory buildings
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| − | Look for blue recycling bins (for glass, plastics 1 & 2 ONLY, office paper, aluminum cans, steel cans) on each floor of Earlham dormitories and in academic buildings
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| − | =='''FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT RECYCLING'''==
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| − | '''Q-I imagine we should get our heads together, to generate more questions. S.H.'''
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| − | 1. What happens when trash is put in recycling bins (or some other way to address contamination)?
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| − | 2. Can I recycle all types of cardboard at Earlham?
| + | Black text taken from: Richmond Sanitary District Recycling Program flyer. |
| − | 3. Maybe the same sort of question about plastics??
| + | Blue text taken from: http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/recycle/FACTS/benefits |
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| − | WHO SHOULD I CONTACT IF MY COMPOST IS NOT BEING PICKED UP?
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| − | Contact: Dan Horowitz (horowda@earlham.edu)
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| − | WHERE CAN I COMPOST:
| + | Every day, an average American produces and throws away about 4 or 5 pounds of waste. In a city like Richmond, this means over 200,000 pounds (100 tons) of waste must be disposed of every day. Richmond's waste is currently being buried in the New Paris Pike Landfill, but this facility will not last forever. To locate and construct a new landfill will take considerable time and money, but the life of the current one can be extended by recycling a larger portion of municipal solid waste. Recycling also lessens environmental impacts of waste in landfills, such as land, water and air pollution, by reducing the amounts of waste being sent there. |
| − | 1. In the dining hall: Next to the trash bins where trays are also brought, there is a separate can for compostable items.
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| − | 3. Clear Creek Food Co-op: Inside the co-op there is a bucket for waste generated from daily lunches, as well as a large trash can outside of the co-op, on the Barrett side.
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| − | WHERE DOES THE COMPOST GO and HOW DOES IT GET THERE?
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| − | All compost generated at Earlham goes out to Miller Farm. Miller Farm is a college-owned, student-run farm located on Abington Pike. For more info go to http://www.millerfarm.org Two to three student workers are hired each semester on a work-study basis to transport the compost out to the farm. Bikes are used to carry the compost out on a regular basis depending on pick-up location. The compost is then used on gardens maintained by the residents of Miller Farm throughout the growing season.
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| − | We compost to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill and to benefit the student-run agriculture program based at Miller Farm. Food waste that goes out to Miller Farm would otherwise go with the rest of trash to the Richmond landfill. By composting, over time, we significantly reduce the amount of waste we produce. And, the soil at Miller Farm is enriched by the application of the compost.
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| − | HOW IS THE COMPOST USED AT MILLER FARM?
| + | By decreasing the need to extract and process new raw materials from the earth, recycling can eliminate the pollution associated with the initial stages of a product’s development: material extraction, refining and processing. These activities pollute the air, land and water with toxic materials, such as ammonia, carbon monoxide, methane, and sulfur dioxides. |
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| − | Compost is brought from the dining hall and put in a pile where it begins to decompose. Successive loads of compost result in a mass of ‘organic matter’ which generates heat via the decomposition process. A variety of organisms (aerobic bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes and macroorgamisms such as earthworms)consume the nutrients available in leftover food and help to produce 'humus.' Humus-a soil-like substance-is incorporated into the soil and improves soil structure, increases moisture retention, and increases the availability of nutrients and minerals for plant growth.
| + | GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE REDUCTION |
| − | Residents of Miller Farm manage the compost piles and use the humus after spring tillage to add organic matter to the soil. The compost is applied when necessary during the growing season to strengthen soil balance and prevent pest and disease spread. It is sometimes used again after fall harvest and before a winter cover crop is sown to build soil quality over the winter.
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| − | For more information on compost and composting go to: <www.cfe.cornell.edu/wmi/Composting.html>, <css.wsu.edu/compost/> | + | By reducing the amount of energy used by industry, recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions and helps prevent global climate change. This is because much of the energy used in industrial processes and in transportation involves burning fossil fuels like gasoline, diesel and coal. The most important sources of carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions into the environment. Additional benefits are derived from reduced emissions from incinerators and landfills. |
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| + | CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES |
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| | + | Recycling is also an important strategy for reducing the environmental impacts of industrial production. Supplying industry with recycled materials, rather than virgin resources extracted from forests and mines, is environmentally preferable because it saves energy, reduces emissions of greenhouse gases and other dangerous air and water pollutants, and because it conserves scarce natural resources. Recycling programs supply industry with scrap commodities such as metals, paper, glass, plastics, wood, organics, and other materials.†|
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| − | Director of Facilities: Glen Haywood (haywogl@earlham.edu)
| + | Recycled materials often produce better products than those produced from virgin materials. The tin in “tin†cans, for example, is more refined (thus more valuable) after being processed for recycling. |
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| − | Housekeeping Director: Bruce Dodds (doddsbr@earlham.edu), x1854<br>
| + | Source reduction, preventing waste before it is generated, can further reduce the need for disposal and save more resources |
| − | contact regarding office paper recycling pickup, summer pickup of comingled
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| − | Environmental Responsibility Committee:<br>
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| − | *Scott Hess, Convenor (hesssc@earlham.edu)
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| − | Earlham Environmental Action Coalition (http://www.earlham.edu/~eeac/)<br>
| + | Energy savings are a very important environmental benefit of recycling because using energy requires the consumption of scarce fossil fuels and emissions of numerous air and water pollutants. The steps in supplying recycled materials to industry (including collection, processing and transportation) typically use less energy than the steps in supplying virgin materials to industry (including extraction, refining, transportation and processing).†“Additional energy savings associated with recycling accrue in the manufacturing process itself, since the materials have already undergone processing. |
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| − | Earlham Energy Awareness Project (http://eeap.cs.earlham.edu/)<br>
| + | RECYCLING AS A GROWTH INDUSTRY |
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| − | Miller Farm (http://www.millerfarm.org/wiki/Main_Page)
| + | Recycling is a growth industry with many kinds of business opportunities, from collection and processing to manufacturing to inventing new technologies. |
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| | + | Reuse and remanufacturing focuses on the refurbishing and repair of products to be reused in their original form. The largest activities are retail sales of used merchandise and reuse of used motor vehicle parts. The amount of value that can be added via this process is limited because of competition from new products. Nevertheless, reuse and manufacturing contributes jobs and sales. |
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| | + | In addition to the direct benefits of recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing, support businesses that provide goods and services to the recycling and reuse industry also contribute to the health of the economy. These supporting businesses include recycling and reuse equipment manufacturers, consulting/engineering services, brokers, and transporters. |
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| + | Recycling also benefits Earlham and the city of Richmond financially. Earlham is charged for the trash it sends to the landfill, so not having as much trash to haul saves the College money. Also, Earlham is monetarily compensated for its bales of recycled corrugated cardboard; and, the city is compensated for recycled bales of plastic and for loads of glass, aluminum and other metals that are recycled by the Richmond Sanitary Department. |
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| − | '''what else can be dropped off here?? - CL'''
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| + | Paper and paperboard products include items you use every dayâ€â€newspapers, food packaging, tissues, cardboard boxes, office paper, and paper plates. In fact, at about 38.1 percent, paper and paperboard products constitute the largest portion of municipal solid waste (MSW). As the greatest portion of the waste stream, paper also offers the greatest opportunity for recycling. Today, consumers buy recycled paper in newspapers, food pa |
WHY RECYCLE?
The little why’s of Recycling: to divert the amount of waste going to landfills, to prevent pollution, to reduce greenhouse emissions and global climate change, to conserve resources, to save energy used for refining raw materials, and to help Earlham and the Richmond community benefit financially from the industry of recycling.
The BIG why of Recycling - to love life enough to save it. The following quote is taken from Kellert, Stephen; Wilson, Edward O. (The Biophilia Hypothesis, Island Press/Shearwater, Washington D.C.: 1993)
We need to transform the way we use the earth's endowment of land,
minerals, water, air, wildlife, and fuels: an efficiency revolution which
buys us some time. Beyond efficiency, we need another revolution that
transforms our ideas of what it means to live decently and how little is
actually necessary for a decent life: a sufficiency revolution...
The first revolution is mostly about technology and economics. The second
revoloution is about morality and human purpose. The biophilia revolution
is about the combination of reverence for life and purely rational
calculation by which we will want to be both efficient and live
sufficiently. It is about finding our rightful place on earth and in the
community of life; it is about citizenship, duties, obligations, and
celebration...
IN MY WORD DOCUMENT:
Black text taken from: Richmond Sanitary District Recycling Program flyer.
Blue text taken from: http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/recycle/FACTS/benefits
Green text taken from: http://www.solidwastedistrict.com
DIVERSION FROM LANDFILLS
Every day, an average American produces and throws away about 4 or 5 pounds of waste. In a city like Richmond, this means over 200,000 pounds (100 tons) of waste must be disposed of every day. Richmond's waste is currently being buried in the New Paris Pike Landfill, but this facility will not last forever. To locate and construct a new landfill will take considerable time and money, but the life of the current one can be extended by recycling a larger portion of municipal solid waste. Recycling also lessens environmental impacts of waste in landfills, such as land, water and air pollution, by reducing the amounts of waste being sent there.
POLLUTION PREVENTION
By decreasing the need to extract and process new raw materials from the earth, recycling can eliminate the pollution associated with the initial stages of a product’s development: material extraction, refining and processing. These activities pollute the air, land and water with toxic materials, such as ammonia, carbon monoxide, methane, and sulfur dioxides.
GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE REDUCTION
By reducing the amount of energy used by industry, recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions and helps prevent global climate change. This is because much of the energy used in industrial processes and in transportation involves burning fossil fuels like gasoline, diesel and coal. The most important sources of carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions into the environment. Additional benefits are derived from reduced emissions from incinerators and landfills.
CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES
Recycling is also an important strategy for reducing the environmental impacts of industrial production. Supplying industry with recycled materials, rather than virgin resources extracted from forests and mines, is environmentally preferable because it saves energy, reduces emissions of greenhouse gases and other dangerous air and water pollutants, and because it conserves scarce natural resources. Recycling programs supply industry with scrap commodities such as metals, paper, glass, plastics, wood, organics, and other materials.â€Â
Recycled materials often produce better products than those produced from virgin materials. The tin in “tin†cans, for example, is more refined (thus more valuable) after being processed for recycling.
Source reduction, preventing waste before it is generated, can further reduce the need for disposal and save more resources
ENERGY SAVINGS
Energy savings are a very important environmental benefit of recycling because using energy requires the consumption of scarce fossil fuels and emissions of numerous air and water pollutants. The steps in supplying recycled materials to industry (including collection, processing and transportation) typically use less energy than the steps in supplying virgin materials to industry (including extraction, refining, transportation and processing).†“Additional energy savings associated with recycling accrue in the manufacturing process itself, since the materials have already undergone processing.
RECYCLING AS A GROWTH INDUSTRY
Recycling is a growth industry with many kinds of business opportunities, from collection and processing to manufacturing to inventing new technologies.
Reuse and remanufacturing focuses on the refurbishing and repair of products to be reused in their original form. The largest activities are retail sales of used merchandise and reuse of used motor vehicle parts. The amount of value that can be added via this process is limited because of competition from new products. Nevertheless, reuse and manufacturing contributes jobs and sales.
In addition to the direct benefits of recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing, support businesses that provide goods and services to the recycling and reuse industry also contribute to the health of the economy. These supporting businesses include recycling and reuse equipment manufacturers, consulting/engineering services, brokers, and transporters.
Recycling also benefits Earlham and the city of Richmond financially. Earlham is charged for the trash it sends to the landfill, so not having as much trash to haul saves the College money. Also, Earlham is monetarily compensated for its bales of recycled corrugated cardboard; and, the city is compensated for recycled bales of plastic and for loads of glass, aluminum and other metals that are recycled by the Richmond Sanitary Department.
PAPER
Paper and paperboard products include items you use every dayâ€â€newspapers, food packaging, tissues, cardboard boxes, office paper, and paper plates. In fact, at about 38.1 percent, paper and paperboard products constitute the largest portion of municipal solid waste (MSW). As the greatest portion of the waste stream, paper also offers the greatest opportunity for recycling. Today, consumers buy recycled paper in newspapers, food pa
