Waste Farmers collects 100% of your discards including recyclables, compostables, and hard-to-recycle materials. Up to 90% of your discards will be diverted from landfills and reused or repurposed.

By recovering valuable materials from our discard stream — aluminum, steel, plastic, paper, glass and more — recycling substantially reduces the carbon emissions associated with the extraction of raw materials for product manufacture, avoids the emissions associated with landfilling or incineration and conserves natural resources for future generations.

Consider these facts on the carbon value of recycling:

• The EPA estimates that current recycling of municipal solid waste in the U.S. avoids Greenhouse Gas emissions equivalent to 180 million tons of CO₂ equivalent.
• An increase in the recycling rate in the U.S. from the current 32% to 65% could mean an additional 180 million tons of avoided GHG emissions.
• Recycled aluminum saves 95% of the energy cost of producing aluminum from raw materials.
• The plastic from a recycled beverage container can be used indefinitely, avoiding the Greenhouse Gas emissions associated with incinerating plastic wastes and eliminating the need to extract or import petroleum to make another plastic bottle.
• Last year, the amount of lost energy from throwing away aluminum and steel cans, plastic PET and glass containers, newsprint and corrugated packaging was equivalent to the amount of electricity consumed by 10 million Americans in one year.
• A 10%, 25% and 50% increase of the amount of cans, bottles, newsprint and corrugated packaging currently recovered would result in new energy savings of a respective 77, 191 and 383 million MBTUs. This represents a crude oil savings of between $957 million and $4.8 billion.

TOP 10 ITEMS TO RECYCLE
1. Aluminum
2. PET Plastic Bottles
3. Newspaper
4. Corrugated Cardboard
5. Steel Cans
6. HDPE Plastic Bottles
7. Glass Containers
8. Magazines
9. Mixed Paper
10. Computers

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