Our President:
Cletus W. Bergen, II, Esq
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- Aluminum and glass are two of the most easily recycled materials.
- Paper is another easily recycled product and it is naturally biodegradable. In one year, the average American uses as much wood through the use of paper as an average person in a developing country burns for heat.
- Plastic is difficult to recycle and can never be broken back down into the resource it came from, oil. While we should recycle all the plastic we can, the best way to help the earth is to avoid purchasing items made of plastic or packaged in plastic.
- The average American produces about 3.5 pounds of trash a day. 39% of this trash is usually paper, 7 % plastic, 9 % metal, and 9 % glass. Most of these items can be recycled. That means more than half our trash is usually recyclable.
- Another 8% of our trash is food items and 18% is often yard waste, most of which could be composted and mixed into the soil for home gardens, yards, plant boxes, and other potted plants.
- If everyone recycled and composted we would have as much as a 65% reduction in materials going to our landfills, perhaps even more.
Computer image of Gasper, the CGCCAW mascot,by Jessica Jenkins
