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1. Lots of campuses and offices still don't have their trash together when it comes to recycling—even in areas where sorting programs are supposedly mandated by law. To get your office started, speak with your office manager or property management office director. Ask their permission to call a tenant meeting on the matter, or to hire a sustainability consulting firm. For college campuses, organize a green team (you'll want teachers, students, and maintenance staff on board) and conduct a waste audit. That means rummaging through your trash (gloves please) to see what recyclables are being thrown away most often. Ask your regular trash hauler if they can handle those recyclables. If they can't, find one that can by searching Earth911 or the National Recycling Coalition's database.
2. One may be the loneliest number, and two may be the loneliest number since the number one, but they're both rock star divas in recycle-land. Plastic containers and bottles labeled "1" or "2" are much easier for recycling plants to handle (and much more commonly accepted) than those labeled 3,4,5,6, or 7. Next time you cruise the aisles with your "I'm not a plastic bag" bag, try to steer clear of anything in the 3-7 range.
3. Keep paper items with heavy metallic embossing (like gift cards or fancy magazine inserts) out of the blue recycling bin. They can ruin an entire batch of pulp at the recycling plant.
4. Recycle your organic waste by starting a compost heap. Keep a bucket in your kitchen, and toss in vegetable peels, banana peels, apple cores, and even egg shells. Almost anything besides meat scraps is fair game. Unload the bucket onto your backyard compost heap at the end of each day, and throw some dry leaves or grass clippings on top of the pile every so often. If you're a college student or don't have your own backyard, help your campus start a composting program, or Google search a compost collection program in your city.
5. Compact Florescent Lightbulbs are fantastic energy savers, but they do contain mercury. When yours run out of steam, make sure to recycle them properly. The EPA's regional CFL-recycling locator and Earth911's CFL recycling facility locator are both great ways to find drop-off spots. IKEA and Home Depot will also take care of your old CFL's for free, no matter where you bought them. As a very last resort, seal your bulb in two plastic bags before putting it in the trash.
6. It used to be hard to find a place to recycle an old cell phone, but today, the EPA makes it embarrassingly easy to give them the gift of reincarnation. Visit www.epa.gov/cellphones to find one of thousands of convenient cell phone drop-off spots set up all over the country.
7. Buying products made from recycled materials is just as important as sorting your plastics and papers at home and at the office. When choosing recycled paper products, look for the highest Post Consumer Waste (PCW) percentage available. Next, reduce the amount of harmful chlorine going into our water supplies and soil, by looking for products labeled Processed Chlorine Free (PCF).