SOUTH MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY R-E-C-Y-C-L-E-S !!!
South Mountain Elementary PTO is making arrangements to begin our
fifth year recycling!
Recycling has begun. Please send in your clean, sorted recyclables (plastics, newspapers, aluminum cans, glass and cardboard). If you would like to take the recyclables to a recycling station for the school once, please contact Lorinda Rezac at slrezac@hotmail.com. Volunteers are always appreciated!
You may also contact the Santa Fe County Transfer Stations information line at (505) 992-3010 or visit http://www.santafecounty.org/resident/solidwaste.php on the web to obtain a recycling permit. The Tijeras transfer station near Zuzax also accepts recyclables free of charge. In Albuquerque, Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center (just east of Costco on Southern) accepts mixed, unsorted recyclables. The bins are located southwest of the building.
If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Green at ascincorp@aol.com.
Little tidbits about recycling…
The average American uses 650 pounds of paper each year - 100 million tons of wood could be saved each year if all that paper was recycled.
About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is only 28%.
Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
Every month Americans throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper (think: Empire State Building).
Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? It's twice the size of Texas and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. It's also 80% plastic and weighs in at 3.5 million tons.
Recycling one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees, two barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.
The 17 trees saved by recycling one ton of paper can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air each year.
If all of our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 million trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we could save about 25 million trees each year.
More than 20 million Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. Believe it or not, ALL that foil is recyclable!
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours. In spite of this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every three months!
A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers that can all be recycled!
Source: http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-recycling