Recycling Information
Recycling is Back in Collegedale
| Location: | Six recycling bins are located at the Collegedale Public Works Department on Sanborn Drive. Sanborn Drive is the first turn to the right (at the old city sign) east of the crest of the Apison Pike pass through White Oak Ridge. Follow signs the short distance to the recycling center which is on the right. |
| When: | Sunday, Tuesday, Friday 1:00p.m. to 4:00p.m. Wednesday 8:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. |
| What: | Aluminum and tin cans; newspaper, mixed paper and cardboard; #1 (clear) and #2 (opaque) plastic bottles; used petroleum oils. Please rinse cans and bottles and remove all bottle caps. |
| Who: | All area residents. |
Why:
- Collegedale hauls roughly 150 truck loads of waste to the landfill each year. The cost to the City is more than $500 per load--about $75,000 per year. Recycling will reduce this cost. In addition, the sale of recyclable materials will help offset the cost of recycling.
- Recycling saves energy and reduces air pollution. For example, production of recycled paper uses 80% less water and 65% less energy, and produces 95% less air pollution than virgin paper production. On average, the entire recycling process uses about 11.3 million Btu to manufacture new products from a ton of recycled material. Manufacturing goods from virgin materials uses about 23.3 million Btu.**
- Recycling is the right thing to do. It conserves our natural resources for coming generations and saves landfill space. Extracting nonrenewable resources from the earth to manufacture items which are used for a short time and then sent to a landfill is wasteful and unsustainable.
**www.solidwastemag.com/PostedDocuments/PDFs/2007/JeffreyMorris.pdf
KEEP COLLEGEDALE CLEAN AND GREEN--RECYCLE