Video: How Can I Recycle in My Own Home?

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In order to recycle at home, sort out plastic, glass, cardboard and other materials that can be picked up on the curb or carried to a drop-off site. Help the environment and save space at the landfill with help from a solid waste planning engineer and recycling program coordinator in this free video on recycling at home.

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Video Transcript

Hi, my name's Lynn Bestul. I'm the solid waste planner for New Hanover County in North Carolina. I'm here today to talk to you about how you can recycle at your own home. You've got all types of products at your house that are recyclable. That milk, when that milk jug gets empty, the jug is recyclable. The food that you picked up from a fast food restaurant last night, the salad in that plastic clam shell, in most recycling areas, that is something that is recyclable. Soda bottles, bleach bottles, your detergent. All of those items are recyclable. the cardboard, your cereal boxes, you can make sure that those things get recycled. Some places don't have curbside recycling. If you do, congratulations, it's a great way to handle it. You can just put all that material out to the curb and somebody comes and picks it up. If you don't have that type of material, of service, you'll have to carry those recyclables to possibly a drop-off site, that they will handle it and they'll haul the material away. Most of those facilities do not charge you to dump the recyclables. The benefits are you're going to reduce those garbage bags that you have to put in front of your house for the garbage man to pick up. You may not have a garbage can that's overflowing. You're also helping the environment. You're saving space at the landfill and there's all forms of material at that house that are recyclables. One of the other things to look at are the old coffee grounds. Why not try to start a compost bin? It's a form of recycling. Turning that old food into something that you can use as a fertilizer for the foods that you want to grow. And those are some of the easy things you can do at your house to recycle and to keep that cycle going with recycling.

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