Recycling Realities

Writer/Producer: Lynne Howard Frazer

Does recycling make a difference? Let's talk trash.

Americans produce more trash than any other people on the planet. Every year, we throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the American Airlines fleet 71 times; enough steel to reconstruct Manhattan; and enough wood and paper to heat five million homes for 200 years.

In southwest Florida, recycling programs offer relief to overflowing landfills -- and earn millions of dollars for Lee County, which owns and operates its own recycling sorting facility. Plastics, glass, steel, aluminum, cardboard and paper are sorted and sold to be recycled and refabricated once again.

See why recycling makes sense -- and cents -- for all of southwest Florida.

Resources:
County websites offer information on what can -- and cannot -- be recycled, as well as the location of the household chemical waste drop-off facilities, and information on business recycling.

Lee County Solid Waste
www.leegov.com/solidwaste
(239) 533-8000

Collier County Solid Waste
www.colliergov.net/recycle
(239) 252-2508

Charlotte County Solid Waste
http://charlottecountyfl.com/EnvironmentalServices/solidwaste/recycling/
(941) 743-1200

Hendry County Solid Waste
www.hendryfla.net/special/recycle.htm
(863) 674-4162

Additional information about recycling:
Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov/epawaste/index.htm

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Education

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• Recycling
• Realities

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