It’s amazing how much less garbage you have when you take out all of the paper products that can be recycled.  You can recycle virtually all paper products except dirty toilet paper and facial tissues!

The following should go to the recycling center:

books that are no longer useful such as old phone books or outdated textbooks
corrugated cardboard
fiber board such as cereal, shoe, and soda pop boxes
coated paper containers such as orange juice cartons, ice cream cartons, and juice boxes
newspapers and newspaper inserts
junk mail
regular paper
all types of paper envelopes, including those with clear address openings or metal fasteners
magazines and catalogs

 

At the recycling center paper products are grouped into three separate categories. You can do the same at home for easier storage. Newspaper, regular paper, and junk mail of various types can go together. The cardboards, fiberboards and cartons go together. Slick  magazines and catalogs make up the third group.

Paper, cardboard and fiberboard are used to make new paper and insulation, among other things.  When you look at the volume of paper products you can collect for the recycling center, it is easy to see that you are saving a lot of landfill space, trees and natural habitat.  You also decrease energy use and pollution and prevent all that valuable tree pulp from being wasted.

The Danville/Boyle Country Recycling Center is open early. Hours are 7:30 - 4:30 weekdays and from 8-12 on Saturdays. You can leave information anonymously about litter or open dumps, 24 hours a day at (859) 238-1116. You can also address questions to Ralph Smith, manager, at the same number.

Copyright 2007 Christine Missik