2. Tenants and staff are outreached and educated by AFFORDABLE AUSTIN WASTE employees of what
to recycle and how to follow guidelines.
3. Complex residents place their recyclables in bags (designated time/day) outside their door.
4. AFFORDABLE AUSTIN WASTE uniformed Service Porters arrive on-site in a marked vehicle and
proceed door-to-door securely collecting the recyclables from each individual unit.
5. Service Porters will then make an inspection of the grounds and breezeways for loose items and litter
6. Once all items are collected, proper transportation and hauling to the on site bins will take place.
Plastic (Items may vary according to county codes. Certain types of plastic only.
The average person generates 4.5 lbs of garbage each day.
The average family generates approximately 2.5 tons of garbage each year.
Simply recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100 watt bulb burning for almost four hours, or run a television set for three hours.
An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now.
We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year!
500,000 trees must be cut down just to produce Sunday newspapers every week.
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year.
The amount of wood and paper Americans throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes
for 20 years!
Americans use 25,500,00 plastic drink bottles every hour. Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam coffee cups every year.
Plastics not recycled require 100 to 400 years to break down!
In one month, Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill an entire giant skyscraper.
Using recycled glass bottles to make new bottles takes 50% less water and 20% less air pollution than making them from scratch.
Recycling Helps The Environment
Recycling reduces energy consumption
Recycling saves energy and resources
Recycling decreases pollution
Recycling reduces hazardous waste from landfills
Recycling one pound of steel can power a 60-watt light bulb for more than a day.
For every ton of paper made from recycled materials saves 17 trees, 6.953 gallons of water, 463 gallons
of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution, 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space, and 4,077 kilowatt hours of energy.
