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Why
Recycle?
The City of Peoria collects about
75,000 tons of solid waste each year and delivers it to local
landfills. Much of this waste can be diverted from landfills and
recycled. By recycling, citizens save money and make a positive impact
on their environment. Here’s how:
- Recyclable materials collected at
city drop-off sites are taken to a processing facility where they
are sold for market rate. The money earned from sales of
recyclable materials are then put back into the city’s recycling
program fund to help keep costs low.
- Recycling preserves natural
resources. Use of recycled material in manufacturing processes
reduces the demand for virgin materials – for example, making
paper with recycled material uses fewer trees than paper that does
not contain recycled material.
- Studies also show that less
energy is needed to manufacture products from recovered materials
than from virgin materials – in fact, manufacturing products
from recycled materials can reduce energy required in the process
by as much as 94%.
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