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NOVEMBER 1992 VOLUME 2 DAY the new Can Can is catching On Everyone at the Recyclery is dancing a jig because residents have fallen right into step with the "can can/' We're refer ring of course to, the addi tion of steel (tin) cans to our recycling program, which already included aluminum cans. Now green bins all over town are brimming with both the steel cans and the aluminum ones. Here's some uncanny statistics on just how far we've come since add ing this first item to Winston-Salem's recycling program in August: ? We're recycling 4000 pounds of steel cans per week! That's 20,000 pounds a month! ? The natural resources saved so far by recy cling these cans include: 75,000 pounds of iron ore; 30,000 pounds of coal; 1 ,200 pounds of limestone. CONTRIBUTE LOCALLY, RESULTS GLOBALLY Consider this, the 100 BILLION pounds of steel recycled a year, nationwide, saves enough energy to supply the City of Los Angeles with electricity for 8 YEARS! WAR ON GARBAGE If you haven't joined in this steel can recy cling effort, think of it this way. In World War II, Americans collected steel cans which were melted down and reused for military hardware. Our battle in the 90's is saving the environment from unnecessary waste. Once again, Ameri cans are literally "pitching in" (their steel cans) during this ecological crisis. Won't you? It's easy to recycle steel cans, here's how: 1 . RINSE cans thoroughly^ Acceptable # cans includeTfruit, vegetable, soup, meat, fish, pet food, juice and coffee cans. No aerosol or point cons please. 2. DROP the lids into the cans. SQUEEZE lid slightly to keep lid from falling out. You don't have to remove the label , but it helps! 3. PLACE the cans into the bin along with other recyclables. For more information call 722-BINS. Garbage & Recycling Pickup Holiday Schedule Changes THANKSGIVING Observed Thursday and Friday November 26-27 If your collection day is Pick-up will bo Tuesday Monday, 23rd Wednesday Tuesday, 24th Thursday Wednesday, 25th Friday _ . Monday, 30th CHRISTMAS Observed Friday, December 25 If your collection day is Pick-up will be Tuesday Monday, 2 1 st Wednesday Tuesday, 22nd Thursday Wednesday, 23rd Friday Thursday, 24th NEW YEAR'S DAY Observed Friday January I .Same schedule as Christmas (above) RECYCLING SCHEDULE: IF YOUR RECYCLING DAY FALLS ON A HOLIDAY , YOU'LL SIMPLY BE SKIPPED UNTIL THE FOLLOWING WEEK! IF YOUR BIN IS OVERFLOWING, JUST PLACE EXCESS RECYCLABLES IN BAGS DIRECTLY NEXT TO BIN. PLEASE DON7 SEAL OR TIE PLASTIC BAGS IF YOU USE THEM IN YOUR RECYCLE BIN. THEY'RE HARD TO UNTIE AND SLOW DOWN THE DRIVERS. 12 MILLION POUNDS OF WASTE RKYOIDU TAUNT TRASH RECYCLE TODAY has some weighty statis tics on the program's success so far. Broken down, it looks like this: ALUMINUM CANS: Over 7,000,000 cans! Since recycling takes MUCH LESS energy than to produce new products, this amount of recycling, just in Winston-Salem alone, saved enough energy to run a television for 21 MILLION hours, OR saved enough energy to allow every household in Winston-Salem to run the TV for 4 1 7 hours! GLASS: The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will light a 100-WATT bulb for four hours. The lass recycled through RECYCLE TODAY has^saved 2,996 gallons of fuel. PLASTIC: 528,000 POUNDS of plastic! That is enough plastic to cover two lanes of a 7 MILE STRETCH OF THE NEW 1-40 BYPASS FROM 40 AND 421 ALL THE WAY TO U0 AND 311! NEWSPAPER: 7,800,000 pounds of newspaper. (Imag ine the fish you could wrap with that!) Recycling this much news paper saved 60,500 trees!
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