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Recycling Wisconsin

This website will explain to you why recycling in Wisconsin 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

Metals America
(920) 321-1889
1401 Donald St
Green Bay, WI

One Source Recycling
(920) 496-5830
973 Haven Pl
Green Bay, WI

A & J Metal Recyclers
(920) 435-1681
820 N Chestnut Ave
Green Bay, WI

MidWest Scrap Metal
(920) 434-8301
3840 Velp Av
Green Bay, WI

Enviro Tire Management
(920) 884-2182
1330 Tomlin St
Green Bay, WI

Ecosource
(920) 435-2644
300 7th St
Green Bay, WI

Fiberland Inc
(920) 490-4330
300 S Taylor St
Green Bay, WI

Forward Vision Environmental
(920) 435-5955
710 Bay Beach Rd
Green Bay, WI

Lamp Recyclers
(920) 403-1166
3055 Holmgren Way
Green Bay, WI

Recycled Fibers Division of Newark Group
(920) 432-8005
940 Prairie Ave
Green Bay, WI

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

Metals America

(920) 321-1889
1401 Donald St
Green Bay, WI

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Recycling Wisconsin

1 . Local Companies

2 . Recycling - Quick Facts

3 . How Recycled Paper Is Made!

4 . Everything Old Is New Again!

5 . Featured Local Company