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Complete the Circle
PRESERVE NATURAL RESOURCES
By making products from recycled materials instead of raw materials, we reduce the need to cut down trees, drill for oil and dig for minerals.
REDUCE ENERGY USE MORE SAFELY
It takes less energy to make recycled products. Making new aluminum from recycled aluminum, for example, takes 95% less energy to make than new aluminum from bauxite ore.
SAVE DISPOSAL SPACE
When the materials you recycle go into new products, they don’t go into landfills or incinerators. As a result, Indiana’s disposal space is conserved.
CREATE JOBS & SAVE MONEY
The recycling process creates more jobs than landfills and incinerator businesses. And recycling reduces money spent for energy, air and water protection, and disposal costs.
How can you buy more
recycled products?
READ LABELS
Look for the words “recycled content” or “made from recycled materials” and buy those products. Ask the businesses you shop at for recycled-content products. Encourage store managers to order more. You can call manufactures to express your preferences, too. In most cases, a package label will include the product-maker’s toll free number for questions and comments.
SAFE BETS
The following five types of packaging can always be counted on to have a high percentage of post-consumer recycled content, even if they’re not labeled as recycled:
Aluminum beverage cans: About 50% of the aluminum in beverage cans comes from used cans that were collected for recycling, melted and made into new cans.
Glass bottles and jars: Up to 25% of the glass in bottles and jars has been used at least once and remanufactured
“Tin” (steel) cans: So-called “tin” cans are actually made of steel, usually with a thin coating of tin. About 28% of the total content is recycled steel, half of that being post-consumer.
Molded pulp containers: Cardboard flower pots, fruit trays and egg cartons are made from recycled newspaper and cardboard that is re-pulped and re-shaped.
Corrugated boxes: Corrugated boxes are second next to aluminum cans when it comes to recycling. In 2007, 78% of the United States’ corrugated cardboard boxes were recycled. These boxes are the world’s leading shipping and merchandising material.
Shopping Ideas for Products and Packaging Made from Recycled Materials
HOME
It takes less energy to make recycled products. Making new aluminum from recycled aluminum, for example, takes 95% less energy to make than new aluminum from bauxite ore.
LAWN & GARDEN
The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills and incinerator businesses. And recycling reduces money spent for energy, air and water protection, and disposal costs.
AUTOMOTIVE
When the materials you recycle go into new products, they don’t go into landfills or incinerators and Indiana’s disposal space is conserved.
OFFICE & SCHOOL SUPPLIES
By making products from recycled materials instead of raw materials, we reduce the need to cut down trees, drill for oil and dig for minerals.
CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills and incinerator businesses. And recycling reduces money spent for energy, air and water protection, and disposal costs.
HOLIDAYS & SPECIAL OCCASIONS
The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills and incinerator businesses. And recycling reduces money spent for energy, air and water protection, and disposal costs.
PARKS & RECREATION
The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills and incinerator businesses. And recycling reduces money spent for energy, air and water protection, and disposal costs.