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Recycling Alabama

This website will explain to you why recycling in Alabama is important and how to recycle effectively.
1. Local Companies
2. Recycling - Quick Facts
3. How Recycled Paper Is Made!
4. Everything Old Is New Again!
5. Featured Local Company

1 . Local Companies

Southern Recycling
(251) 432-8550
114 Industrial Canal Rd E
Mobile, AL
Twin Oaks Recycling
(251) 661-0001
Old Pascagoula Rd
Mobile, AL
Rock Tenn Recycling Huntsville
(256) 533-9888
205 Wholesale Ave NE
Huntsville, AL
Recycling Programs Swda
(256) 880-6054
5251 Triana Blvd SW
Huntsville, AL
Rock-Tenn Recycling
(256) 533-9888
205 Wholesale Avenue
Huntsville, AL
Mobile Plastic Recovery
(251) 694-6888
580 Grand Bay Wilmer Rd N
Mobile, AL
First Recycling Choice
(334) 347-2274
1011 Geneva Hwy
Enterprise, AL
Wise Recycling L L C
(251) 479-1322
2200 Halls Mill Rd
Mobile, AL
Alabama Scrap Metal LLC
(251) 694-0204
701 N Joachim St
Mobile, AL
Counselman Automotive Recycling
(251) 330-2700
3019 St Stephens Rd
Mobile, AL

2 . Recycling - Quick Facts

Why Recycle?

1. Recycling conserves our valuable natural resources.
2. Recycling saves energy.
3. Recycling saves clean air and clean water.
4. Recycling saves landfill space.

Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water!

Making recycled paper instead of new paper uses 64 percent less energy and uses 58 percent less water.

One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year. More than 1/3 of all fiber used to make paper comes from recycled paper. Only 1 percent of the world's water supply is usable; 97 percent is in the ocean and 2 percent is frozen. It takes a 15-year-old tree to produce 700 grocery bags.

Where does the trash go? When you throw something "away", it doesn't go away! Trash is either burned, buried, recycled or dumped into rivers and oceans.

Disposable diapers last centuries in landfills. An average baby will go through 8,000 of them!

Recycling a stack of newspapers just 3 feet high can save one tree.

3 . How Recycled Paper Is Made!

Waste paper is collected, sorted, baled and transported to a paper recycling plant. You can help by sorting paper and keeping it dry and out of the sun (water and sunlight make it harder to remove ink).

At the paper factory, used paper is mixed with water in a huge blender called a "hydrapulper," which mixes the paper with water, pulling inks away from the paper fibers and separating the fibers themselves. De-inking chemicals are sometimes also added.

The pulp mixture passes through several different-sized screens, which separate the paper fibers from paper clips, staples and other contaminants.

In most cases, the clean pulp is then mixed with some new wood pulp to make the recycled paper stronger. Recycled paper fibers get shorter the more often they are recycled. Most fibers can be recycled! The clean pulp is pressed into sheets, dried, finished and placed onto rolls.

4 . Everything Old Is New Again!

  • Old newspapers can become new newspapers.
  • Old corrugated boxes can become new corrugated boxes.
  • Old printing and writing paper can become new printing and writing paper, wrapping paper, and paper used for magazines, books and brochures.
  • Old scrap paper of all kinds can be used to make new paper towels and tissues, egg cartons, fruit trays and flower pots.
  • Old grocery bags can become new mail wrappings for magazines and catalogs, new dog food bags as well as new grocery bags.
  • Old toy boxes or shoe boxes can become new cereal and soap boxes, soft drink cartons and pizza boxes.

    • 5 . Featured Local Company

    Southern Recycling

    (251) 432-8550
    114 Industrial Canal Rd E
    Mobile, AL
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