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Generating Less Waste
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3-17-2009 3:17 PM
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Some good tips here from the City of Ottawa.
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That's the first step in reducing what goes to Ottawa's landfills. The next is to reuse and recycle more often. The following list describes decomposition times and proper disposal methods:</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ottawa.ca/residents/environment/community/springcleaning/litter_facts_en.html"><UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Newspapers - 6 weeks = Recycle (<A href="http://ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_garbage/recycling/blackbox_en.html">Black Box</A>)</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Cardboard box - 2 months = Recycle (<A href="http://ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_garbage/recycling/blackbox_en.html">Black Box</A>)</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Banana peel - 2 years = <A href="http://ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_garbage/compost/index_en.html">Compost</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Cigarette butt - up to 15 years = Garbage</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Plastic grocery bags - 100 years = Reuse or <A href="http://ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_garbage/takeitback/index_en.html">Take it Back!</A> to any Loeb retailer in Ottawa</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Aluminium can - 200 to 500 years = Recycle (<A href="http://ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_garbage/recycling/bluebox_en.html">Blue Box</A>)</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Disposable diaper - 450 years = Garbage</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Styrofoam cup - up to 1 million years = Garbage</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Plastic bottle - up to 1 million years = Recycle (<A href="http://ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_garbage/recycling/bluebox_en.html">Blue Box</A>)</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Glass bottle - 1 million years + = Recycle (<A href="http://ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_garbage/recycling/bluebox_en.html">Blue Box</A>)</LI></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ottawa.ca/residents/environment/community/springcleaning/litter_facts_en.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ottawa.ca/img/F665EEAD-D560-46B6-95EC-2CC33B120A4A" alt="City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ottawa.ca/residents/environment/community/springcleaning/litter_facts_en.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ottawa.ca/img/91976959-D272-4AF1-9EEF-BBD8C2B66275" alt="Don’t be a LitterBug!" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FD101EF3-1D7F-4DEE-A1ED-5DEFC18D5803/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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