| Recycling is something that has been around for quite | | | | get released. That is a heck of a price to pay for not |
| some time, but there has never been a push like | | | | putting things in the right bucket. |
| there has been over the last few years. Everywhere | | | | Now as far as the homeowner is concerned, what |
| we turn, we are hearing about places that are going | | | | can they do to make things work right? First and |
| green and renewable energy sources that can save | | | | foremost, they need to instill the process of recycling |
| cities and individuals money. Here are some tips to | | | | in the children. Setting up separate trash cans for |
| keep some of those tax dollars in your pocket. | | | | bottles, plastics and papers is a great start. Give the |
| What most individuals fail to understand is that | | | | kids a small incentive and make the recycling fun for |
| recycling is good for everyone. All of the trash that is | | | | them so that they stick with it. |
| generated by residents of a city has to go | | | | The next thing to look at is the products that are |
| somewhere. When that trash is not recycled, the city | | | | purchased for the home. For instance, are you buying |
| has to take it a trash facility or dump. This does | | | | recyclable containers for dish detergent, for laundry |
| nothing more than fill our land with debris and to add | | | | detergent? Checking different containers for the little |
| insult to injury, we are paying to do it. | | | | recycling symbol will go a long way. If people are only |
| Landfill fees are extremely expensive and far higher | | | | buying items that come from recyclables, it will put |
| than the costs of collecting and sending recyclables | | | | more pressure on the corporate world to get more |
| out. Recently, the City of Toronto announced a trash | | | | involved in recycling. |
| and recycling plan that the average recycling | | | | While there are some companies that have jumped in |
| percentage for homeowners is now 60%. City staff, | | | | with both feet and use recyclables for everything |
| settled on the volume-based approach to rubbish in | | | | that they can, there are others that are still ignoring |
| part to raise the additional $54 million per year | | | | the fact that recycling will play a huge part in the |
| necessary to make that happen. That may not sound | | | | future of this world. The electronics industry is a |
| like a lot, but when you break it down, it is like | | | | perfect example of this. While entire TV's may not |
| putting food in the fridge for a month by doing | | | | be able to be made from recyclables, many of the |
| nothing more than separating trash. The dirty little | | | | parts can and there is no reason that they should not |
| secret here is that diverting residential garbage | | | | be. |
| removal (recycling, collecting organic waste, etc.) is | | | | Regardless of where people live, recycling should be |
| much more expensive than burying all our trash in a | | | | a part of their life. For those that live in the city, this |
| hole in the ground. | | | | is even more important because of the congestion |
| In addition to the tax benefits that can be seen by | | | | and sheer amount of trash that is generated. While it |
| residents, there is also federal funding to think of. | | | | may not be our fault that the world is in the |
| There is a lot of federal funding that is based on the | | | | condition that it is, we are stuck with it and recycling |
| amount of recyclables that every area generates. If | | | | is a way to start to get things pointed back in the |
| they don't hit their numbers, the funding does not | | | | right direction. |