Endless Summer Recycling Guide
Republic Services provides Central Oregon with
garbage, recycling and yard debris services.
We're proud to serve you and are working hard to increase participation in
recycling to divert material from our landfill
and ensure that our community is as sustainable as possible.
Please do your part by recycling the right materials,
every single time, every single day.
www.republicservices.com/centraloregon
Do or do not. There is no try.
Except in the case of recycling. We really need you to try harder to recycle.
Yoda, Jedi Master
Drop it like its hot...right into the recycling bin.
I think, therefore I recycle.
Necessity is the mother of recycling.
Snoop Dogg, Singer and Producer
René Descartes, Philosopher
Plato, Philosopher
Recycle Right!
Know what to throw!
Clean cardboard, paper and plastic jugs all belong in your recycling cart. And yes, you can keep the lids on!
Empty. Clean. Dry.
Dirty cans, dirty bottles and dirty cardboard can contaminate other recyclables. Don't ruin the fun. Keep it clean and stay classy.
Bags are bad.
You don't want them under your eyes and we don't want them in our recycling carts.
Just say NO to bags.
Gross!
Beautiful!
Recyclable? NOPE.
facts
Glass and metals, including aluminum, can be recycled indefinitely, without a loss of quality.
The energy saved by recycling one glass bottle will operate a 100-watt lightbulb for four hours.
The average piece of printer paper can be recycled 5 times before being made into lower-grade paper-based materials.
Americans waste about 425 beverage containers per capita per year--twice as many as we recycle.
Compostable plastics don’t break down during typical composting and end up in landfills where they last as long as forever plastics.
As of 2015, more than 6.3 billion tons of plastic waste was generated. Only 9 percent was recycled.
