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Recycling Odds and Ends

11/6/2015

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Originally published June 3/15 The Reminder. Flin Flon, Mb. Sponsored by North of 53 Consumers Coop.

Little bits of recycling information can be found in many places.  Here is a sample from links on the Green Manitoba website.
-          Seventy percent of ‘garbage’ from homes can be recycled or composted.
-          Recycled plastic is used in pillows, comforters, sleeping bags, scrub pads, grill covers and road bed and pond liners.
-          Recycling five 2 litre bottles makes enough polyester for a square yard of carpet. Two 2 litre bottles makes enough polyester fibre for a ball cap.
-          Thirty five percent of the world demand for aluminium is met with recycled materials.
-          Recycling one aluminium can saves 95% of the energy used to make a new one from raw ore.
-          Seventy-five percent of all aluminium produced since 1888 is still used today.
-          Recycled tires are made into blasting mats and a variety of other things.
-          Recycling one metric ton (tonne) of plastic bottles saved 3.8 barrels of oil.
-          Recycling one tonne of paper saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water and 3.5 cubic metres of landfill space.
-          One half a kilogram of newspaper can be recycled into six cereal boxes, six egg cartons or 2,000 sheets of writing paper.
-          Making steel from new iron ore can use 50 percent more water than making it from recycled steel.

More information and links are available at www.greenmanitoba.ca  under the recycling tab.  A-Z Recycling Guide includes information on some unusual items. The Industry stewardship programs section has links to a variety of programs.

Green Manitoba is a special operating agency of the Manitoba government dedicated to creating a cleaner and greener Manitoba. It provides programs and information related to waste reduction. 

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    Deb Odegaard has been with the Flin Flon Community Recycling program since it began  in 1992.  She  became the Administrator in 2013.
    Deb writes a  column 'The Recycling Bin' in The Reminder, Flin Flon's newspaper. Past columns are posted here along with recycling stats  and anything else on her mind. 

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