You can purchase a variety of products at Ellice Recycle: copper, copper plate, lead for your boat, all grades of aluminim, mulch, compost – and there is an off sales area where you can find things like bicycles and furniture.
Approximately 88 percent of the energy is saved when plastic is made from plastic rather than from the raw materials of gas and oil.
Ellice is the only facility in the area that can recycle Styrofoam. We can reduce 65 truckloads down to 1. Then it is sent to be made into things like picture frames (Number 6 plastics).
The process of recycling paper instead of making it from new materials generates 74 percent less air pollution and uses 50 percent less water.
Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 percent of the energy used to make them.
Not sure if you have steel or non-ferrous metal? If a magnet won’t stick to it, it’s non-ferrous and we will pay you for it.
Don’t have a magnet? Stop in and get one for free.
A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces water pollution, air pollution, and mining waste by about 70 percent.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, and a TV for 2 hours.
When you throw away an aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the can half full of gasoline and poured it into the ground.
Manufacturing recycled paper uses 60 percent of the energy needed to make paper from new materials.
Turning of the tap while brushing your teeth in the morning and before bedtimes can save up to 36 liters per day. This is a savings of 1,091 liters per month.
Recycling 1 tonne of paper saves about 16 mature trees, 24,000 liters of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and 4000 kilowatt hours of electricity. This is enough energy to power the average Canadian home for 5 months.
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