Turtle Island Recycling: Waste Management Program Partners in saving money and the environment Infor

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Turtle Island RecyclingWaste Management
ProgramPartners in saving money and the
environmentInformation for Tenants
Please visit our website for further info and to
contact your representatives. www.TurtleIslandRecy
cling.com
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Updated Recycling Program for 2002 from Turtle
Island Recycling

• With the environment and operating costs in mind,
  your building and property managers have
  partnered with Turtle Island Recycling in order
  capture all of your recyclable waste and prevent
  it from reaching landfill.
• The custodial staff are already onboard with new
  procedures that have been explained and shown
  through training sessions and now we are
  requesting the help of the tenants to source
  separate and help the buildings attain their
  diversion goals.
• Please join us in our goal to reduce costs and
  help the environment by taking the time to learn
  and implement the following changes.

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Why Recycle?

• Using recycled material instead of virgin
  resources when making new products is more energy
  efficient. By avoiding the need to process raw
  materials, industry is avoiding the most
  energy-intensive and pollution-causing stage of
  manufacturing.
• Canadians throw out more per person than the
  citizens of any other country in the world. Each
  of us, on average, produces 1.7 kg of garbage/day
  - roughly our body weight in a month! -
  University of Waterloo, Alternatives Journal 2000
• The costs of dumping garbage are increasing - we
  are shipping 137 truck loads to Michigan from
  Toronto every day! And the paper, cans and glass
  you recycle are worth money to manufacturers.

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Recycling Green Team Committee

• Meetings will be scheduled regularly and will
  provide a forum for suggestion and comment. All
  are welcome to attend.
• Schedules and updates will be posted
  electronically and sent to you periodically.
• Our goal of an 80 diversion rate is only
  attainable through your involvement and we
  welcome your assistance.

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Paper Recycling

• Every time a ton of paper is recycled, 20 trees
  are saved. - Municipal Waste Integration
  Network, 2001
• Each person in an office discards on average 57
  kilograms of waste paper each year. In fact,
  enough recyclable paper is land-filled in Canada
  each year that could have protected 80 Million
  trees from being cut down. - Canadian Paper
  Recyclers Ltd., 2000
• Making new cardboard from recycled cardboard
  takes 25 less energy than using fibre from wood
  preventing pollution! - Clean Calgary
  Association, 2000
• Paper can easily be pulped, de-inked and used
  again!

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Please help us recycle paper products by

• Not putting any other material, including
  recyclables, in the PAPER ONLY blue box.
• The recycling effort will be wasted if you do.
• Flatten and bundle your cardboard. Please affix a
  waste sticker so that the cleaners know to take
  it away.

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Bottles and Cans

• Recycling has many benefits beyond lower disposal
  fees efficient resource management is key to
  saving money and the environment.
• Recycling steel cans saves water. It takes
  223,500 litres of water to make one tonne of
  steel. When scrap iron is used instead of iron
  ore to make steel, water consumption is reduced
  by 50 - Recycling Council of Ontario, WRW
  handbook 2001
• Making aluminum from recycled material uses 95
  less energy then from raw materials (bauxite).
  One recycled pop can saves the equivalent of 11
  litres of gasoline. Recycling a 6 pack is like
  saving a full tank of gas! - Recycling Metal by
  Joy Palmer, 1990

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Glass and Plastic

• Glass is 100 recyclable and can be used over and
  over again.  And when you think that the length
  of time for a littered glass bottle to break down
  by natural processes is 1 million years, you
  realize why we have to recycle it.
•   Of the plastic bottles, PETE Bottles (1) is
  the second most valuable commodity that you
  recycle next to aluminium.  Over 21,000 2-litre
  pop cans can be made from one tonne of PET.  The
  most common use however is fabric - everything
  from a cotton-like thread to fleece can be made
  from PET. 

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Recycling converts garbage to a valuable input
commodity
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All your bottles and containers can be co-mingled
in the recycling bins - well sort them for you!

• Turtle Island Recycling has a sorting line at
  their facilities where the bottles and cans are
  washed and sorted so that you can mix all your
  glass, plastic, steel and aluminium containers
  together in these tall recycling bins.

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Benefits to Tenants

• As the cost of dumping garbage increases for your
  building and your company, you will continue to
  cut costs by recycling. With landfills filled
  and shipping costs to Michigan growing, there is
  no question the price tag associated with garbage
  disposal will only rise and these costs will be
  transferred back to the tenants as the
  cost-saving benefits of recycling also are!
• The team effort involved in helping the
  environment and avoiding wasteful corporate
  practices helps build strong company morale.
• Your buildings and companys reputation will be
  protected when under the scrutiny of social
  corporate responsibility and stewardship.

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• With your help in instituting these small
  changes in your staffs daily routine we will
  continue to save money and the environment by
  diverting from landfill and saving these valuable
  commodities. Through recycling you will have
  reduced excess energy use and pollution and
  slowed the extraction of raw material from the
  earth. Thank you.

Turtle Island Recycling Company Partners in
saving you money and the Environment
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• Contact Information
• Questions about materials, equipment, schedules
  and procedure see your property manager or
  contact Turtle Island directly
• Ted Manziaris of Turtle Island Recycling
  [phone]
• information_at_turtleislandrecycling.com