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Goals

Our goal is to introduce the idea of reusing and reducing to students and teachers, and promote recycling in many different ways.

Did You Know That...

People throw away a lot of things that can be recycled and not take a long period of time to decompose such as:

• Cigarette butts : 1 - 5 years
  
• Aluminum Cans and Caps : 500 years
• Glass Bottles : 1,000 years
• Plastic Bags : 10 - 20 years
• Plastic Coated Paper : 5 years
• Plastic Film Containers 20 - 30 years
• Nylon Fabric : 30 - 40 years
• Leather : up to 50 years
• Wool Socks : 1 - 5 years
• Orange and Banana Peels : up to 2 years
• Tin Cans : 50 years
• Plastic Six-Pac Holders : 100 years
• Plstic Bottles and Styrofoam : Indefinitely  

What You Can Do To Help

You can help by recycling the following items :

• Copy and construction paper, envelopes, cards and gift wrap
• Newspapers, books, megazines, catalogues and telephone books
• Paper egg cartons, rolls and bags
• Tissue and cereal boxes (Remove liners and plastic windows)
  
• Corrugated cardboard and pizza boxes (ensure that they are clean, unwaxed and flattened)
  
• Drink boxes and milk cartons (no straws)
• Metal cans and rigid aluminum containers
• Glass bottles and jars
• Plastic bottlers, jugs, tubs and lids
• Frozen juice containers

For an up to date list of everything you can recycle, visit http://ecoschools.tdsb.on.ca  and go to Minimize Waste > What can you recycle?