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Tips: Top Ten Ways to Recycle

  • Nov 12, 2007
 In 2007, Office Depot compiled a list of the top 10 ways to recycle at home and in the office.
  1. Buy recycled paper and print on both sides. When using paper in the office, print on both sides of the sheet and recycle the paper when you are finished. By recycling one ton of paper, you can save 17 trees, almost 7,000 gallons of water and more than three cubic yards of landfill space.
  2. Recycle your outdated technology. According to EPA, Americans throw out two million tons of e-waste each year. Avoid adding to that waste by recycling your old technology. For more information on electronic recycling, visit http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm.
  3. Make recycling bins readily available. Make sure your home and office are outfitted with recycling bins for paper, plastic and metal. Keep them out in the open and label them appropriately. Sometimes the convenience factor is all that is needed.
  4. Recycle your empty ink and toner cartridges. Almost eight cartridges are thrown out in the United States every second of every day. That's almost 700,000 cartridges per day.
  5. Buy remanufactured ink and toner cartridges. Each remanufactured cartridge keeps approximately 2.5 pounds of metal and plastic out of landfills and saves about a half gallon of oil.
  6. Recycle old newspapers laying around the office. When finished reading the newspaper, either leave it for someone else to read or recycle it.
  7. Look for the recycled option in all the products you buy. It's not just paper that is recycled.
  8. Buy rechargeable batteries. It takes 1,000 regular batteries to equal the lifespan of one rechargeable battery. When you are discarding your batteries, recycle them.
  9. Purchase rewritable CDs and DVDs so that you can reuse them from project to project.
  10. Reuse your morning coffee cup. Or better yet, buy a mug to avoid the waste caused by throwing away the paper or Styrofoam.

Search EPonline.com for additional recycling tips, including Tips: Protecting Valuable Data While Recycling and Tips for Paper Use and Recycling.


Comments

Sat, Jan 21, 2012 Recycler

If you go to www.recyclinggarbage.net, they show you how to recycle in each one of your rooms in your house! This site also helped with that.

Sat, Jan 21, 2012 Recycler

This website has many great ideas for reducing, reusing, and recycling. Even though I already knew what I could recycle, this site told me other things I could do.

Wed, Jan 18, 2012 Bill Suncook NH

If you do go shopping and end up with those plastic bags you can reuse them the next time you go shopping or by filling it with trash instead of just trashing it empty.

Sun, Jan 15, 2012

This site helped, but i was looking for ways to USE my recycled materials not what to recycle. I already know how. But, I didn't know there were so many things that could be recycled. And recycling is NOT a waste of time; we are saving the Earth one bottle at a time! : )

Thu, Jan 12, 2012

Very helpful

Tue, Jan 10, 2012

very good advice my teacher is telling us how important it is to reycle

Tue, Jan 3, 2012

thanks!! thats awesome!! :D

Tue, Dec 6, 2011 shindler

great advice by the way.

Wed, Nov 9, 2011 scranton pa

had to do a worksheet in class and this site helped me out alot

Wed, Nov 9, 2011

helping the enviro nice work

Wed, Nov 9, 2011 tice

good advice

Thu, Nov 3, 2011

blah blah blah

Fri, Oct 28, 2011

its good but you need more things like re use paper or do arts and crafts with egg carts or cardboard boxes ect because i came on to the website to look at that for a school project in year 7,8

Thu, Oct 27, 2011 zakendric griffen enterprise alabama

i love dhis!!

Thu, Oct 27, 2011 Jill Event planning jobs

This is a good way to minimize waste disposal, according to a survey I have ever read, the most terrible is electronic waste. Almost once a month electronics company issued the latest gadgets, and to not buy it it is like to resist the temptation of satan. So that more people buy the latest stuff, the more waste as well. Recycling should be of particular concern for the government. because if not, sooner or later we will be increasingly destroyed the earth.

Sat, Aug 20, 2011 zanele

im 18 and studying environmental course and it has changed m i've started to care about my community. i wish to see more.

Sun, Jul 3, 2011

Recycling is great, I'm glad to hear that more than a just a few people are really into protecting the planet. I'm also happy that my family and I are doing all we can to save the beauty and health of our environment. (:

Thu, May 19, 2011 Benjamin Australia

I'm 19, and currently studying an Environmental course in my engineering degree, and it's made me realise how much more recycling needs to be done in both Australia and all over the world. I hope that some day we will stop wasting so much of our resources, and start efficiently recycling

Wed, May 18, 2011 jasmin

I wish there was more

Fri, May 13, 2011

nice facts

Tue, Apr 19, 2011 halimatou evereet

I love it!

Tue, Jan 18, 2011 Steph

Recycling is great, I'm glad to hear that more than a just a few people are really into protecting the planet. I'm also happy that my family and I are doing all we can to save the beauty and health of our environment. (:

Fri, Dec 24, 2010

their are good ways .I am proud that my family and I are doing what it says

Mon, Nov 8, 2010 claudia

These are very good tios in recycling! I just hope people take their time to read this and make to make it happen.

Sun, Oct 31, 2010 Eunice New York City

Actually thanks for the tips and the information on the different ways to recycle and to keep our environment clean and tidy.Well any ways coming to think about it many people wont even care about the environment but its happy to have someone caring about it!!:)

Fri, Oct 15, 2010 Renni Singapore

Have a look to Europe. Since many years they try to reduce, reuse and than recycle. Newspaper, glas, aluminum, pet bottles, cans, batteries, electronic equipment are collected over 20years and than recycled into something else. It's even mandatory to do so. Almost all Europeans use reusable bags for shopping. Yes you can buy a paper bag at the cashier if you forgot to bring a bag along but you will reuse it until it falls apart. Just start doing it, after a while you will do it automatically. It's really not a big deal and we can all help protect our precious world for future generations.

Thu, Oct 7, 2010

Recycling facilities need to be made more accessible, especially for electronics and household hazardous waste. The county I live in holds a drop-off day for this stuff only once a year. If it's on a day I'm busy, or in a location I can't get to, I'm SOL. I've got boxes full of stuff in my basement that I don't want to take to the landfill, but there's no place else to take it.

Tue, Oct 5, 2010 Chanc'e Lawton, Oklahoma

This site help me make an A on my essay. also this site is so true. and the comments that everyone made gave me good ideas. so Thanks And Cody Id rather be a tree huggger than a tree killer

Wed, May 26, 2010 printer ink http://www.inkmart.com

Remember, it’s REDUCE, REUSE and then RECYCLE. Reducing the amount of waste we create in the first place will help reduce the amount of materials that need disposal. Many items that you no longer need may still be usable, can find another home and extend its life.

Wed, Apr 28, 2010 Jessiie. Alaska

Cody, That was mean. Really it helps a lot. If you think about it the worldis just going to be coverd in trash one day. Because of people that thought like you. Also, If you didn't care about this why did you comment? :)

Tue, Apr 27, 2010 Spaztastic tree hugger Denver

I don't have curbside recycling, so all my recycling is taken 10 miles away to the nearest facility. What a pain. So, I support products that incorporate less packaging to begin with. For example, some brands of packaged tea bags are typically encased in 4 layers of packaging. Add the shopping bag and you have 5 layers of packaging between you and the product.

Thu, Apr 22, 2010 Alex

I just finished reading this list and wanted to make a quick suggestion to add that people can also purchase recycled auto parts to help the environment, such as from LKQOnline.com (a company I work for). I think that it's something often overlooked by people doing everything they can to help protect our environment and that it would make a useful addition to the article.

Thanks,
Alex

Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Caitlyn Tennessee

Recycling is great and one day will help our kids and their kids and so on.

Wed, Jan 13, 2010 cody tildo

recycling is a waste of time go get a life u spaztastic tree huggers

Thu, Dec 31, 2009 Ryan utah

it kinda helped

Thu, Nov 5, 2009 lana australia

great website

Tue, Sep 8, 2009 Lyss Hawaii

good ideas

Tue, Sep 1, 2009

This is a great way to save our Earth

Wed, Aug 26, 2009 noone

this site did not help me at all!

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