Did you know aluminum cans are the diamonds of recycling? — aluminum can be recycled forever and sells for almost $2,000 per ton! Paper sells for about $7 per ton. Recycling a can saves 95%of the energy it takes to make new aluminum and can run one TV for 3 hours. NEVER THROW OUT AN ALUMINUM CAN—ALWAYS RECYCLE!
Baltimore City realizes revenue from the sale of recyclables – your recyclables are too valuable to put in the landfill or even to send to the waste-to-energy incineration facility. Please don’t throw money away!
Here’s a little known fact—you can recycle CDs and DVDs as well as VHS and BETA tapes for re-use.
For CDs and DVDs, pack them in a box and send them to: Plastics Recycling Incorporated, 2015 South Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, IN 46225 317.780.6100.
The CDs are ground down, made into pellets and sold to large companies like Rubbermaid.
For VHS and other tapes, pack them in a box clearly labeled donation and mail them to: Carpel Video, 429 East Patrick Street, Frederick, MD 21701, 800.238.4300.
The tapes are cleaned, checked for damages, erased and sold to firms for re-use.
Baltimore City’s recycling volume jumped more than 20% since single-stream curbside recycling was introduced in 2008.
Roughly 50% of each household’s trash is recyclable.
95% percent of household waste in Baltimore is incinerated in a waste-to-energy facility on Russell Street called Wheelabrator (formerly know as BRESCO). Your burned trash produces energy and/or steam at at this facility and the ash is used as needed cover at our landfill.
Though electronic waste (TVs, computers, etc.) is very toxic, over 80% of obsolete or broken electronics get tossed. Click here to learn the easy and cleaner way to eCycle
Over 90% of the electricity used to light an incandescent bulb generates heat, not light. You are wasting cash with old light bulbs. CFLs save your house big bucks. Click here to learn more
Making Earth Day Everyday - learn the 9 top ways your household can reduce its carbon footprint starting with the biggest reduction, switching to “green” emission-free power!
Recycled paper manufacturing cuts pollution and energy usage by 50% while reducing the amount of waste that goes into landfills and other disposal means — a win-win for the environment and the City’s checkbook.
