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If each one of us does our part to recycle, we can make a HUGE difference! The earth that will exist for future generations is up to us. Cody, Wyoming is a beautiful, scenic area and we have a responsibility to preserve its nat- ural beauty. Take a moment to pick up that can or wrapper and dispose of it in a trash receptacle. Computer Paper Office Paper Newspaper Magazines Phone Books Corrugated Cardboard Aluminum Cans Plastics #1 and #2 Tin Cans Cody Recycling Center 531 15th Street Cody, WY 82414 Monday—Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (307) 587-2958 (307) 587-3990 Cody Recycling Center Once is not enough….please recycle! Recycle Five Good Reasons 1. Recycling conserves our valuable natural resources. 2. Recycling saves energy 3. Recycling saves clean air and clean water 4. Recycling saves landfill space. 5. Recycling can save money and create jobs. ---PAGE BREAK--- Recycling Tidbits Did you know…….. In 2015, the Cody Recycling Program shipped 2,048,914 pounds (1,024.61 tons) of recyclables to out-of-town mills. The Recycling Program kept the following products out of the Park County Landfill: 600,236 pounds of newspaper 75,540 pounds of office paper 1,290,780 pounds of cardboard 15,266 pounds of aluminum 46,902 pounds of plastic Computer Paper Office Paper Newspaper Magazines Phone Books Corrugated Cardboard Aluminum Cans Plastics #1 and #2 Tin Cans Cody Recycling Center 531 15th Street Cody, WY 82414 Monday—Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (307) 587-3990 Cody Recycling Center The Recycling Program has been in existence in Cody since 1993 when Cody recycled approximately 184,882 pounds of materials. In 2000, Cody recycled over 653,282 pounds of materials. In the year 2003, Cody recycled approximately 964,713 pounds. All material brought in to the Recycling Center from businesses and residential is volunteer. Remote recycling collection trailers are now located in the Walmart and Kmart parking lots. Why Recycle? There are several reasons why recycling is better than throwing out. First of all, it’s not as hard to recycle as you think. Perhaps you just finished a can of pop. Your trash can is probably about as far away from you as your recycling bin. It’s not really any extra work to wash out the can and put it in your bin. And besides, it’s a good thing for our earth if you do that! Another reason to recycle is that it saves money, something which we all value It’s a lot cheaper to use existing materials by melting them down than to go out and find new ones. By recycling that pop can earlier, you saved enough energy to run a TV for three hours straight! So recycling aluminum saves aluminum and energy too! A third reason to recycle is that it saves our natural resources. If you were able to time-warp to the second half of the 21st century, you may find that much of the oil, bauxite (aluminum ore) and trees are almost gone! Would you want your kids living in a world like that? If we can pick up the pace and recycle more, there will be more resources for the future*. Paper takes up as much as 50% of all landfill space. The average person in North America uses 550 pounds of paper each year. If recycled each person would save about 4.6 average sized trees*. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours...or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gas- oline.* *Source: funfacts.html Paper is the most common thing in a garbage dump. About 40% of an average dump is paper, all of which is recyclable! But, each time a piece of paper is recycled, 20% of the fibers are lost, so it can only be recycled 5 times. When looking for paper products that already are recycled, look for the words, Made from recycled products, Post-Consumer Waste or the recycling sym- bol. Some grocery stores even allow you to recycle your shopping bags at the store! And you should buy recycled paper. When you use recycled paper instead of new paper, you save 35% of water pollution and 70% of air pollution used in making new paper. Corrugated cardboard is also recyclable, and 9% of an average dump is made of it. The amount of wood and paper that is thrown away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail*. What is the Earth worth to you? How long does it take things to break down? Banana peel...2 months Cotton diaper...4 months Wool mitten...1 year Cardboard milk carton...5 years Tin...100 years Aluminum...500 years