Recycling

Recycle & reduce your waste impact

Recycling is an important way for individuals and businesses to reduce the negative impact of the waste they produce.

Every time you recycle, it supports the many companies and employees doing this important work.

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Why Recycle?

Financial Benefits

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Trash is more expensive than Recycling. In Teton Valley, recycling only costs around $20 per ton vs $100 per ton for landfill-bound waste.

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Over the next ten years, recycling represents a multi-million dollar savings opportunity for Teton Valley.

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Recycling operations create 5x as many jobs as normal waste operations.

Environmental Benefits

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Save natural resources and natural areas

Making products with recycled material slows the depletion of non-renewable resources such as metal, oil and natural gas, and reduces the encroachment of new mining and drilling operations.

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Save Energy

It is generally takes significantly less energy to make products with recycled materials than virgin materials. Benefits of reduced energy consumption include reduced costs and reduced dependence on foreign suppliers.

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Reduce Pollution

Because most energy is generated by burning fossil fuels, using less energy means generating less water and air pollution--especially the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Recycling also reduces other forms of pollution as well: Runoff from mining operations and farms, soil erosion and the toxic chemicals released when raw materials are processed.

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Conserve Landfill Space

Everything that goes into a landfill stays there, taking up space. As waste breaks down—which can take hundreds of years—it releases the greenhouse gas methane and can emit many toxic pollutants into our water table.

Recyclable Materials

Material
Bin #1
Bin #2
Acceptable
Not Acceptable
Aluminum Cans
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  • Beverage cans only
  • Empty and rinsed out
  • Crushing cans saves space
  • No food cans
Batteries
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  • Secure in closable bag or jar
Cardboard
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  • Corrugated Cardboard ONLY (tear the side, needs to have a a wavy interior)
  • Dry
  • Free of any other type of material and/or packing materials
  • Flatten and place under the bins
  • No brown packing paper
  • No brown paper bags
  • NO GREYBOARD
  • No Cereal Boxes
  • No Cracker Boxes,
  • No to (most) Beer and Soda boxes of any size
  • No waxed cardboard boxes
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  • Any Color
  • Empty
  • Rinsed Out
  • No lids
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  • Newspaper
  • White, copy paper
  • Must be dry
  • No books
  • No packing paper
  • No shredded paper
  • No windowed envelopes
  • No staples
  • No paper clips
  • No sticky notes
Plastic Bottles #1
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  • Bottle Shaped Only!
  • Must remove all caps and lids
  • Empty and Rinse well enough you would drink out of it
  • Examples: soda, juice, water, cleaner bottles, cooking and peanut butter jars.
  • No dirty plastic
  • No #3-#7 plastics
  • No Non-bottle shaped plastics
  • No Clamshells
  • No Tubs
  • No lids or Caps
  • No Wrap or Bubble Wrap
  • No Plastic Bags of any kind
  • No Plastic grocery bags
  • No dry cleaner bags
  • No motor oil bottles
  • No black bags
Plastic Bottles #2
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  • #2 bottles only
  • Bottle Shaped Only!
  • Remove all caps and lids
  • Empty and Rinse well enough you would drink out of it
  • Examples: milk jugs, shampoo bottles, bleach & detergent bottles, household cleaner bottles, vitamin bottles.
  • No dirty plastic
  • No #3-#7 plastics
  • No Non-bottle shaped plastics
  • No Clamshells
  • No Tubs
  • No lids or Caps
  • No Wrap or Bubble Wrap
  • No Plastic Bags of any kind
  • No Plastic grocery bags
  • No dry cleaner bags
  • No motor oil bottles
  • No black bags
Tin Cans
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  • Empty and rinsed out
  • No need to remove paper label

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