All City
of Sanford residents should receive a green recycling
box with their garbage can from Waste Management.
All recycling materials should be placed in this green
box.
The green boxes are picked up on the same day as your
garbage and should be placed 2 to 3 feet beside your
garbage can on the day of pickup.
Waste Management has a separate set of trucks that
come out to pick up recycling materials.
If you do not receive a green recycling box, please
call Waste Management at (919) 777-5052 to have one
delivered to your home.
The City of Sanford’s Residential E-Waste items are picked up on your normal yard waste collection day. Place your items at the curb separated from other yard waste.
What happens to the paper we recycle?
- Waste paper is collected, sorted, baled and
transported to a paper recycling mill.
- At the paper mill, waste paper is fed into a
huge blender called a “hydrapulper”
which mixes water with the paper, pulling inks
away from the paper fibers and separating the
fibers themselves.
- The pulp mixture passes through several different-sized
screens, which separate the paper fibers from
paper clips, staples and other contaminants.
- In most cases, this clean pulp is then mixed
with some new wood pulp to make the recycled paper
stronger. The final mixture is pressed into sheets,
dried, finished and placed onto rolls. Most fibers
can be recycled several times.
Why should we recycle bottles and cans?
- Plastic bottles made from PET can be recycled
into many products, including beverage bottles,
plastic strapping, Fleece jackets, sleeping bags,
and carpets. Yet in 2002, less than a fifth of
all plastic beverage bottles in the U.S. were
recycled.
- Recycling glass yields a 10 percent energy
savings and preserves the life of the glass furnace.
Yet currently, less than a third of glass bottles
sold in the U.S. are recycled.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity
to run a laptop computer for four hours.
Materials
List for Recycling
Recycling
Tips
Earth
911
National
Recycling Coalition
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