Recycling Links

Ink Cartridge Recycling - Two sites to turn in Ink Cartridges: LRC Desk and Terra Nova Bulletin Board in VPH, near room 215. For more information follow this link.

Norhtwestern College Recycles:

• RECYCLE
  • Plastics #1 & #2 (Usually hold liquids)
  • Clear Glass Containers
  • Newspaper, Paper, Brown Paper Bags, Envelopes (without plastic windows!)
  • Corrugated cardboard (thick with ridges)
  • PIZZA BOXES (Remove wax paper!)
  • Tin cans, Tin foil, Aluminum Baking Pans
  • Non – refundable pop cans
• NOT
  • Magazines
  • 12/24 Pack pop cases
  • Cereal Boxes
  • Plastic Bags (Walmart, etc…)
  • Plastic Baggies (Ziploc, etc…)

Recycling Facts

Ø Recycling is easy and takes virtually no time

Ø If all the world's people lived like today's North Americans, it would take two additional planet Earths to produce enough resources and to absorb the wastes.

Ø Reducing waste and recycling saves energy, reduces water pollution, acid rain and the soil erosion caused by logging.

Paper

Ø It takes an entire forest (over 550,000 trees) to supply Americans with one Sunday's newspapers.

Ø Nearly 750,000 photocopies a minute were made in the US in 1991.

Ø By 2010, world paper and paperboard consumption is expected to increase 90% from 1993, to 528 million tons.

Ø Every ton of high quality recycled paper saves 17 trees. It also saves 7,000 gallons of water and 60 pounds of air pollution.

Metal

Ø Every three months, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial airfleet.

Ø If we recycled one-tenth of the cans we now throw away, we'd save about 3.2 billion cans a year.

Ø You can make 20 recycled aluminum vans with the energy it takes to make one new can.

Ø A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces its air and water pollution and mining wastes by about 70%.

Plastic

Ø Five recycled soft drink bottles make enough fiberfill for a ski jacket. 36 bottles can make one square yard of carpet.

Ø Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

Ø The plastics industry uses five of the top six chemicals on the EPA's list of chemicals that generate the most hazardous waste during production.

Called to Care for Creation

Genesis 2:15: "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." Ps. 24:1: "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it." Gen. 1:26: Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." Gen. 1:28: God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Rom. 8: 19-23: "The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies."

What Recycling Does for YOU!

• Helps your wing earn money through can and bottle collections.
• Saves the college money.
• Helps create a better place for future generations.
• Creates a healthy habit for years to come.
• Promotes campus unity.