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 What a Waste
If you are like most Canadians, you produce approximately 4,000 kg of waste every year. Pop cans. Jam jars. Comic books. They all pile up somewhere if they're not recycled. Guess where.
When you don't recycle and just throw stuff out it ends up in a landfill run by one of the 12 regional solid waste Commissions in New Brunswick. We do everything we can to help you and your family keep stuff from piling up in our landfills. It's good for the environment and saves money, too!
What We Do
Here in New Brunswick, we run some of the best, most modern landfills around. Even though we deal in garbage, our landfills are very clean and safe. And we do everything we can to make sure they don't hurt the land and water nearby. For example, we line them with a special material so the liquid stuff that comes from rainwater that falls on the landfill- it's called leachate- doesn't end up in our rivers and lakes.
Other things we do to help keep your city or town clean include:
- mulching Christmas trees
- operating recycling programmes
- operating composting programmes
- recycling liquid containers such as pop cans and juice boxes
- taking care of all the different waste when a house is built or torn down
- providing students and teachers with neat information so they can really get into recycling
What You Can Do
You can help save your local environment and the planet. It's soooo easy! All you have to do is think of all the garbage you make and then think of ways you can reduce it, reuse it, or recycle it. It's called the 3 Rs. Practising the 3 Rs only takes a few minutes each day because it's really simple. Every R is important but reducing is at the heart of the best solution to producing less garbage. That the best way to keep our environment clean. And we're not just saying that because it's the business we're in. You'll see what we mean when you explore all the neat info at this site.
The 3 Rs
Reduce: Think of all the things you buy that just end up in the garbage then think of ways to reduce what you buy. Instead of buying single-serving bottles of drinking water you can by bulk water and use a refillable bottle to carry it around.
Reuse: Stop for a second and think before you throw something away. Ask yourself if it can be used for something else or if someone else can use it. When you get too old to play with one of your toys or computer games, you can give it to a charity that will make sure someone esle has as much fun with it as you did.
Recycle: This means turning our waste into resources that can be made into brand new things. For example, if your parents replace the aluminium siding on your house and recycle the old stuff, it can be made into new aluminium pop cans.
Why You Should be a Big on Recycling
Recycling paper and cardboard saves lots of trees. That's good for the air you breathe because trees recycle carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen.
Recycling plastic, glass and metals into the same or completely new things takes way less energy, which is often electricity made by burning dirty fuels such as coal and oil. The result is less greenhouse gases, and water and air pollution.
Those are just a couple of reasons why recycling old stuff is one of the best and easiest ways for you to help keep the earth clean and green. And it's why we help people recycle as much waste as they can.
Recycling is easy once you make it part of what you do everyday. For example, tossing a banana peel in a compost bin is just as easy as tossing it in the garbage but it's way better for the environment.
You Can Do It!
Clear air. Clean water. Life-giving trees. And a lot less ugly pollution. It's what saving the planet is all about. It's what we do at the New Brunswick Solid Waste Association. And you can do it, too! Become a Recycling Ranger.
This site will help you get started with easy tips, fun games and lots of neat information you can use to do your part to make your city or town, and the whole planet, an even better place to live and play. | |
