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In recognition of America Recycles Day (Nov. 15), Office Depot compiled a list of the top 10 ways to recycle at home and in the office. But let’s look at this list with a critical eye. Better answers are out there.
Buy recycled paper and print on both sides. When using paper in the office, print on both sides of the sheet and recycle the paper when you are finished. By recycling one ton of paper, you can save 17 trees, almost 7,000 gallons of water and more than three cubic yards of landfill space. Instead of printing on paper, use Skype and skip the paper, Scan and image everything.
Recycle your outdated technology. Skip the slogans and volunteer one hour a week picking up litter.
Make recycling bins readily available. Make sure your home and office are outfitted with recycling bins for paper, plastic and metal. Keep them out in the open and label them appropriately. Sometimes the convenience factor is all that is needed. Sometime the management needs to make it clear staff need to empty the bins themselves. Then trash will magically uncreate itself.
Recycle your empty ink and toner cartridges. Almost eight cartridges are thrown out in the United States every second of every day. That’s almost 700,000 cartridges per day. Buy remanufactured ink and toner cartridges.
Don’t buy ink at all but learn to manage your action items with less printing and more attention span.
Each remanufactured cartridge keeps approximately 2.5 pounds of metal and plastic out of landfills and saves about a half gallon of oil. Put the time in at a reclamation center deconstructing various parts and elements of non-landfill-allowed printerand ink cartridge parts.
Buy rechargeable batteries. It takes 1,000 regular batteries to equal the lifespan of one rechargeable battery. When you are discarding your batteries, recycle them. Try and get everyone on the block to convert to recharging batteries and chuck their old fashioned non environmental kind.
Purchase rewritable CDs and DVDs so that you can reuse them from project to project. Use one flash drive and never buy or dispose of another CD or DVD again.
Reuse your morning coffee cup. Or better yet, buy a mug to avoid the waste caused by throwing away the paper or Styrofoam. Re-use your sports water bottle and skip aluminum canned drinks for a week. A can never opened is a can that never fills the recycler bin, waste trunk, or landfill.
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