In an organic and environmental age that we live in, it is no surprise that the world is going green by reducing, reusing, and recycling.  EMagazine has an excellent article that gives some facts about the recycling industry and also tells you where and how to recycle practically anything.

From the article: 

Get this: Recycling and reuse businesses now employ about as many people as the auto industry, if not more, according to a 2001 “U.S. Recycling Economic Information Study” commissioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and several states through an agreement with the National Recycling Coalition. At least 1.1 million people now work in the industry, more than triple the jobs in mining. BusinessWeek in February pegged the number of auto factory workers at about 950,000. Demand from industrializing China and India is helping spur the U.S. recycling industry, which now provides a “major source of raw materials,” according to Jerry Powell, editor of Resource Recycling magazine. 

Some of the items that you probably didn’t realize you could easily recycle:

• Carpet
• Eyeglasses
• Fluorescent Lights 
• Fruit Rinds
• Packing Peanuts
• Smoke Detectors
• Priority Mail Envelopes
• Wire Hangers

Read the full article at EMagazine

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