GAMA Recycling

Recycling saves natural resources, landfill space, and energy. Making new aluminum cans from melted recycled cans consumes just 5 % of the energy it takes to make one from scratch! Everything that goes into a landfill stays there, taking up space. As waste breaks down—which can take hundreds of years—it releases the greenhouse gas methane and can emit many toxic pollutants into our water table.

It generally takes less energy to make products with recycled materials than virgin materials, often significantly less.Together, Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and buying Recycled products make up a comprehensive waste and resource reduction strategy that benefits our natural world and our economy.

Products Bottles, Plastic, Styrofoam The easiest and most common plastics to recycle are made of polyethylene terephthalate (PETE). Examples include soda and water bottles, medicine containers, and many other common consumer product containers. Styrofoam items such as coffee cups, disposable cutlery, meat trays, packing and insulation. It is widely accepted because it can be reprocessed into many items, including cassette tapes and rigid foam insulation. Cans, Copper, Metal, Every day, more than 100 million aluminum beverage cans are sent to landfills, littered, or incinerated in the U.S. By throwing your empty aluminum can into the recycling bin or curbside bin, you are helping keep the environment clean. Americans throw away enough aluminum cans to rebuild an entire commercial air fleet every three months. Simple actions can mean big results. gama_recycling002011.jpg Cardboard, Paper Almost 40 percent of our total waste comes from paper and paperboard. If your organization would like to recycle newspapers as an ongoing fund raiser, you can research the many companies available that will place a dumpster like container in your school or church parking lot so that newspapers can be dropped off at any time.