Recycling Links
Why Recycle?
About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is just 28%. --Environmental Protection Agency
About 86 percent of US landfills are currently leaking toxic materials into lakes, streams, and aquifers. Once groundwater is contaminated, it is extremely expensive and difficult, sometimes even impossible, to clean it up. --EPA, 2003
Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for 6 months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of air pollution. --Trash to Cash
Recycling glass instead of making it from silica sand reduces mining waste by 70%, water use by 50%, and air pollution by 20%. --Environmental Defense Fund
In 2006, Americans drank about 167 bottles of water each, but only recycled an average of 23 percent. That leaves 38 billion water bottles in landfills. --Earth911.org
It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year's supply of bottled water. That's enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars. --Earth911.org
North Elba Transfer Station (Lake Placid)
Open Monday through Wednesday, Friday through Saturday from 8:00 am to 4:15 pm
Closed Thursdays, Sundays and Holidays
518-523-2940
Items that can now be recycled at no cost:
- Glass
- Tin cans, aluminum cans, foil and pans
- No. 1 and No. 2 Plastic
- Newspaper, magazines, catalogs, junk mail and cardboard
- Paper grocery bags
- Books and publications (no hard cover)
- Cereal and food boxes (no wax coated)
- Cell phones
- Rechargable batteries
- Inkjet and toner cartridges
Other items accepted for recycling at six cents per pound:
- Unbroken fluorescent bulbs
- Household batteries
- Televisions
- Computers, monitors, keyboards, printers and copiers
The Freecycle Network
The Freecycle Network™ is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.
Catalog Choice
A free service that lets you decline paper catalogs you no longer wish to receive.
