Blue Bins	Green Bins	Brown Bins

• Office Paper
• Copier Paper
• Computer Paper
• Carbonless forms
• Envelopes
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Junk Mail
• Corrugated cardboard which looks like this is cross-section: 

• Thermal FAX paper
• Carbon Paper
• Food packages or pizza boxes

• Clear and colored glass bottles and jars
• Plastic containers marked #1 & #2
• Steel (tin) cans
• Aluminum beverage cans
• Mix together in the bin; they're sorted later
• No aluminum foil

Recycling aluminum saves up to 95% of the energy needed to make the same products from raw materials. Recycling a 12oz. aluminum can saves the energy contained in six ounces of gasoline!

Recycling glass results in a 50% energy savings. Both these savings are in addition to the savings in raw materials and in landfill space.

Used paper is shredded and mixed with water, then ground up into fibers. Any ink on the used paper is removed by washing it with detergents and rinsing the fibers.

The mixture of fibers and water is almost the same as what you get when you grind up trees. It can then be bleached and used to make paper. The recycling plants that get our paper use an oxygen rather than a chlorine bleaching process. The wood fibers used in paper can be reused about four or five times before they breakdown and become too short to make paper.

When the fibers become too short, they pass through the screen used to make the paper instead of becoming part of the paper. Because the wood fibers eventually break down and become too short to use, we will always need to add new trees to the paper making process.