RecyclingMonster - The benefits of recycling are obvious -- it reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills, conserves natural resources and saves energy. However, some folks admittedly aren’t sure about the ins and outs of the environmentally friendly practice.
That’s why the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District and the City of North Olmsted are teaming up for the Recycling Seminar Series, which kicked off last month with “Recycle More, Recycle Better,” held at the North Olmsted Community Cabin.
The second of three seminars, “How Recycling Works,” is scheduled for 6 p.m. July 25 at the Lorain Road venue. The last event is “Waste: Reduce & Reuse” scheduled for Aug. 20 at the same location.
“There are many changes with recycling because of the solid waste company’s inability to get rid of much of the recyclable materials,” North Olmsted Service Director Donald R. Glauner said.
“The county offers these educational programs. So the City of North Olmsted wanted to do as much as possible to foster these programs and give the county additional locations for their seminars and to help the residents of North Olmsted better understand the ever-growing problem with recycling.”
Conducting the series is Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District Educator Kathleen M. Rocco, who described the first affair as recycling 101.
“We went through what you can and cannot recycle, as well as the amount of trash that’s created in our county,” Rocco said. “It sort of gives that background on everything recyclable, basically going from what you put in your bin to it going to the material-recovery facility.”
As far as the upcoming “How Recycling Works,” the session delves into how materials are sorted, reused and resold in the marketplace. The last seminar gets into donating other household items.
Rocco said the thing about recycling is that the industry continues to evolve.
“Our newest thing to recycle are paper cartons, which are like your milk cartons, almond milk cartons and soup cartons,” Rocco said. “Those can go into the recycling bin.”
The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District created its guidelines after meeting with different Northeast Ohio recycling haulers. Now its mission is to take that information to the public.
“Recycling is still very much alive and well, even though there are a lot of misconceptions about what could go into the bins,” Rocco said. “Folks were recycling a lot of stuff that they really could not recover at the material-recovery facility. So we really want to encourage people to recycle the correct things.”
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