PAHS Recycling Initiative

PAHS Community, You might have noticed  new dual sort garbage/recycling cans all around the campus in classrooms and office.  I am asking for everybody on our campus to use the dual cans. The left side is for regular trash, the right side is for paper, bottles, cans, plastic.  Styrofoam is not recyclable.   I am expecting our community to embrace this initiative on our campus.  Thanks in advance.  Marcus Englund, Principal 

City of Peoria Acceptable Items: 
Plastics (with the symbol #1 through #7)Water jugs, milk jugs, juice jugs, detergent bottles and water bottles, squeezable bottles, yogurt, sour cream and cottage cheese containers, fountain drink plastic cups, disposable clean plates, CD cases, rigid plastics, campaign signs.
Paper and cardboard:
Newspaper, magazines, junk mail, phone books, office and writing paper, broken down boxes, cereal boxes, detergent boxes, shoe boxes, frozen food boxes, wet strength soda carriers.  Note: shredded Paper must be tied in clear plastic bag. 
Metals:
Aluminum (beverage cans) and steel cans (vegetables, fruit, soup cans), empty aerosol cans, foil paper and clean pie plates.
Glass:
Jars, containers, and beverage bottles. Please remove metal lids from glass jars and place both in your recycling container.

Why recycle?
Recycling is a daily activity for more than 100 million Americans and a great way to protect our environment and stimulate our economy. Recycling saves resources, prevents pollution, supports public health, and creates jobs. It saves money, avoids landfills, and best of all, it’s easy. To understand the value of recycling, we must look at the entire lifecycle of a product ― from the extraction and processing of raw materials, to the manufacture of the product, to its final disposal. Recycling creates a closed-loop system where unwanted products are returned back to manufacturers for use in new products. This prevents the pollution and destruction that occurs when virgin materials –like trees and precious metals– are extracted from the earth.

Recycling Saves Energy
By recycling about 30% of our waste every year, Americans save the equivalent of 11.9 billion gallons of gasoline and reduce the greenhouse gas equivalent of taking 25 million cars off the road.

Recycling Saves Energy
By recycling about 30% of our waste every year, Americans save the equivalent of 11.9 billion gallons of gasoline and reduce the greenhouse gas equivalent of taking 25 million cars off the road.

Recycling Prevents Pollution
When recycled materials are used in place of virgin materials during manufacturing, we avoid the environmental damage caused by mining for metals, drilling for petroleum, and harvesting trees.

• Producing recycled white paper creates 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution than producing paper from virgin fibers.
  
• Using recycled cans instead of extracting ore to make aluminum cans produces 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution.
  
• Recycling and remanufacturing are 194 times more effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions than landfilling and virgin manufacturing.
  

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