Mixed
paper
recycling
by Vicki Eckels
i
f you aren’t recycling all your paper,
then you aren’t getting the most out
of your recycling program. Resi-
dences of single family homes can get
a Green Bin from the City for all things
paper. For those of you who live in a
multi-family setting and privately pay
for trash and recycling service, you too
can and should be recycling all paper.
It can help the environment and the
bottom line. The opportunity to recycle
more than just newspapers has been
the law in Broward since the summer
Here’s what we all can recycle in Broward
of 2007. Unfortunately, many service no matter whether our home is a house or a
providers haven’t been forthcoming
condo. Mixed Paper: Office paper (staples ok) Clasp
about how much you can divert from
envelopes Envelopes with/without clear windows Junk
mail, phone books Magazines/catalogues Cardboard boxes
(flattened) Wrapping paper All paper board (cereal boxes,
cracker boxes, toothpaste boxes, shoe boxes, mailers,
etc.) AND, of course, newspapers
your trash to recycling and this could Stuff That’s Still Just Trash:
be costing you money. The cost of dis- Styrofoam cups, egg cartons, trays,
posing of trash in Broward is one of the packaging (unless your grocery store
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posal. Here’s what we all can recycle in are sold in (might say #1, but lack a
Broward no matter whether our home is neck so are NOT recyclable) Cottage
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a house or a condo. Mixed Paper: Of- cheese/yogurt containers (typically #5,
fice paper (staples ok) Clasp enve- 6, or 7) Foil juice pouches (wanted by
Herbs • Tumbled Stones
lopes Envelopes with/without clear win- Trash to Treasure, see below) Plastic
• Music • Oils • Incense
dows Junk mail, phone books Maga- trays/cups/plates/flatware Tear resistant
• Candles • Books • Statues
zines/catalogues Cardboard boxes (flat- UPS/FedEx mailers Dirty food packag-
• Lemurian Seed Crystals
tened) Wrapping paper All paper board ing Soiled paper of any kind Plastic
(cereal boxes, cracker boxes, toothpaste or wire hangers (return to your local
Reiki Classes • Reiki Circle
boxes, shoe boxes, mailers, etc.) AND, cleaner) Plastic bags (consider a reus-
• Tarot Cards of course, newspapers Mixed Contain- able tote when shopping) Trash to
• Karuna Reiki
®
Classes
ers: Aluminum and steel cans Glass Treasure Creative Reuse Center Both-
bottles Waxy cartons Plastic #1 and #2 ered by the amount of “stuff that’s still
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containers (milk, juice, water, deter- just trash”? Check out Fort Lauder-
gent) WITH a bottle neck Though the dale’s new creative reuse center, Trash
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recycling industry is constantly chang- To Treasure, at their web site, www.
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ing in order to absorb more items for trash2treasureFL.org. They actually
recycling, there are some items that still want lots of those little household
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remain just trash. items that cannot be recycled but can
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