Being green is the new in and recycling effectively should be part of your home maintenance in New York. Be responsible for the planet. It’s the only one we have to share. Always use recycled paper. Here you will learn more about our natural resources, nonrenewable resources, renewable resources, pollutants, and how much landfill space can be saved from recycling in New York. Get inspired and think of recycling projects around New York that you could start or participate in.
Hunts Lane Town Recycling Center
914-238-8091
210 Hunts Lane
Chappaqua, NY
Geneseo Recycling Center/Transfer Station
585-243-1544
Warner Road
Geneseo, NY
Town of Huntington Recycling Center
631-427-6377
641 New York Ave.
Huntington, NY
e-Scrap Destruction
631-348-8801
4 Oval Drive
Islandia, NY
Integrated Recycling Services
716-685-7000
PO Box 382,122 - 130 Central Avenue
Lancaster, NY
PENCIL, Inc.
646-638-0565
30 West 26th Street, 5th floor
New York, NY
Northeast Surplus & Materials. LLC
315-476-4025
440 Shonnard Street
Syracuse, NY
Tompkins County Recycling and Solid Waste Center
607-273-5700
122 Commercial Avenue
Ithaca, NY
Bristol Hill Transfer Station
315-591-9211
3125 State Route 3
Fulton, NY
Tecnotes
516-725-2006
1668 Sag Harbor Tpk.
Sag Harbor, NY
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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.
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.
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.