Recycling Habits

Recycling Habits: Learn how to start, maintain, or improve your recycling habit so that you - or your fellow community members - recycle more and recycle better.

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Level Up: Recycle EVERYTHING You Can!

Recycle ALL Materials Accepted at your Local Transfer Station, with image of woman recycling
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♻️ LEVEL UP YOUR RECYCLING HABIT ♻️

It's time to make a commitment: If something CAN BE recycled at your transfer station or recycling center, then YOU WILL recycle it CONSISTENTLY!

Source- Separated: Plastics, glass, paper, cardboard, aluminum cans - be sure to check out what your center takes (especially when it comes to plastic), whether caps should be left on or off, and then go from there. Make sure your items are clean (rinsed)Read more

Start the Ultimate At-Home Recycling: Compost!

Start the Ultimate At-Home Recycling: Compost!
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♻️ LEVEL UP YOUR RECYCLING HABIT: START COMPOSTING! ♻️

Now that you are consistently recycling glass, aluminum, plastics, and paper away from your waste stream, it's time to LEVEL UP and take on another big contributor to landfills: food waste!

Food scraps and yard waste together currently make up more than 30% of what we throw away, but could be composted instead. Making compost keeps these materials out of landfills where they take up space and releaseRead more

If You're Not Buying Recycled, You Aren't Fully Recycling

If You're Not Buying Recycled, You Aren't Fully Recycling with image of two Black women shopping
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♻️ IF YOU ARE NOT BUYING RECYCLED, THEN YOU AREN'T FULLY RECYCLING!♻️

This is one of our FAVORITE habits to share. We know how important - and impactful - it is to recycle for financial and environmental reasons, but many are NOT really fully recycling. Why? Because even though you may have established a recycling habit to turn in glass, aluminum, plastic, paper, and cardboard, you may not yet actively try to BUY products made from recycled materials, closing theRead more

Help Someone START their Own Recycling Habit

Help Someone START their Own Recycling Habit
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♻️ PASS IT ON: HELP SOMEONE YOU KNOW START THEIR OWN RECYCLING HABIT ♻️

You've been working hard at starting your own recycling habit - or upping your recycling game. Now it's time to pass it on and help someone you know start their OWN recycling habit!

**Before we say anymore, we just want to remind you to be kind and supportive when passing on this habit! "Eco-shaming" - shaming someone for their recycling habits or other choices that affect theRead more

Start or Join your Town's Recycling Committee

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♻️ TIME TO GIVE BACK: JOIN (OR START) A RECYCLING COMMITTEE! ♻️
 
It's no secret that town committees can be a lot of work - but they can also be a lot of fun AND create change for your community!
 
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This material is based upon work supported under a grant by the Rural Utilities Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Rural Utilities Service. Rural Community Assistance Partnership, Inc., is an equal opportunity provider and employer.