Recycle - Reuse

See the list below for items we can accept for recycling!

Event Overview Support recycling in Wichita and throughout Sedgwick County, and will help to increase visibility and awareness for recyling efforts in our city and county.

Expanded recycling awareness can mobilize our community to demand improved management of our county-wide waste stream for all of us, and for our future generations. Help move from waste stream management into resource management.

Why Recycle ? Each year Kansans produce around 3.2 million tons of trash, which is enough to bury 100 Kansas High School football fields three feet deep in trash. Yet, we recycle only about 20 percent of this. With waste growing at 6 percent per year, that mountain will double over the next 12 years unless there’s a revolution in the way we think about waste.

Five Benefits of Recycling & Buying Recycled

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The purchase and use of products made with recycled material is the last step in the recycling process

Wichita 2007 Recycling Roundup Sponsors include:

Sedgwick County Extension Education Center — Event Site
7001 W. 21st St. North
Wichita KS 67205-1759
Phone: 316/722-7721 — Fax: 316/722-7727
Weyerhauser Wichita
4300 W. 29th St. Circle
Wichita, KS 67215
Phone (316) 943-1033 — Fax (316) 943-8413
Stutzman Recycling of Hutchinson
takes window and bottle glass and grinds it into various products including feed stock for a fiberglass insulation plant in McPherson, Kansas.
Inter-Faith Ministries
829 N Market St
Wichita, KS 67214
(316) 264-9303
Solid Waste and Recycling Coalition
KCAE
Earth Spirit Kansas
Great Plains Earth Institute
829 N Market
Wichita, KS 67214
316-262-4120 316-264-2233 fax
see page: Sacred Activism.
...Add your name or organization...

Where to Recycle in Sedgewick County
(Sedgwick County Environmental Site)
www.sedgwickcounty.org/environment/recycling.html

The following is excerpted and/or paraphrased from Get Caught Recycling a project of KDHE (Kansas Department of Health and Environment

While recycling waste is important, it is only half the story. Buying recycled products is key to creating the demand, which supports a healthy market for recovered materials. This in turn helps deliver recycling targets.

The purchase of recycled products is crucial to the success of Kansas’ recycling program and recycling in general. By purchasing recycled products, consumers are helping to create long-term stable markets for the recyclable materials collected from Kansas homes, businesses and institutions.

Where Can I Find Recycled Content Products?
Recycled products come in many shapes, sizes and forms including: paper, carpeting; construction materials; toner cartridges; vehicle fluids; pens and pencils; landscaping materials; furniture; retread tires; and many other products. Most of these products are readily available, but if your retailer doesn’t carry an item, ask for it. Also, don’t forget to look for products that are packaged using recycled content materials.

Schedule

Master Gardeners' Demonstrations & Displays

9:00 - 3:00 10:00 10:30 11:00 12:00	Mulch Mowing Display —on the lawn Tree Fertilizing Demonstration Compost Demo in the Demo Garden Tree Planting Demonstration Tree Tour in Arboretum

Extension Education Center Booths & Activities

Reusable bags/sacks, natural household cleaning supplies, and more helpful hints and ideas	Denise Dias, Sewing & Textiles FACS Agent
Gifts in a Jar	Lisa Friesen, Food and Nutrition FACS Agent
Gas cap testing	Nancy Larson, Pollution Prevention Institute
Bottlefish, reusing art project for children	Tonya Bronleewe, EARTH and Beth Drescher, 4-H Youth Development

In celebration of America Recycles Day!

Please see below what we can accept during this exciting recycling roundup!
Make sure all recyclables are clean and free of food residue.

In Wichita
Saturday, November 10

Please note what we can accept during this exciting recycling roundup!
We need for your items to be sorted as shown below, and all glass and plastic containers must be free of food or residue.

YIPPEE !

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#1 Clear Plastic Bottles - soft drink, 7-up, water, ketchup, peanut butter, etc. no lids.

#2 Cloudy Plastic Jugs - Milk, water, vinegar, orange juice (with bottom seam)

#2 Solid Color Plastic Containers- laundry detergent, bleach, fabric softener, cat litter, etc. (with bottom seam)

Mixed Plastic - all numbered household containers not specified above (plastic caps separated). No Styrofoam or styrene (clamshell carryout containers, meat trays, etc.)

Plastic bags - grocery and shopping bags (clean, dry) No frozen food bags, no "crunchy" bags or bags with a seam down the back.

Cardboard - heavy corrugated (empty, clean, flat) & brown paper bags.

Office paper - white & pastel, light colored envelopes, including stationery, annual reports. No dark paper, glossy paper or junk mail.

Mixed Paper/Junk Mail - shoe and cereal boxes (clean, flat with no inner bag), phone books, all shredded paper, dark and bright paper, manila envelopes, file folders, paper towel inner rolls, etc.

Magazines & Catalogs - must have shiny/glossy pages, NO newspaper inserts.

Newspapers - with ads and inserts. Newspapers only, no other kinds of paper.

Books - hardback, paperback, no metal or plastic bindings or plastic covers.

"Container Glass" - all colors - metal lids should be removed and recycled with tin cans. No mirrors, lightbulbs or windshields.

Aluminum beverage cans - rinsed, NO other aluminum products.

Steel / Tin food cans - rinsed, labels okay.

>Cell phones - working or not.

Print and toner cartridges.

Rechargeable dry cell & car batteries.

No Glass that was not originally a food or drink container. No mirrors or windshield glass due to silvering and/or imbedded plastic laminate.

No PVC, Styrofoam & styrene - (clamshell carryout containers, meat trays etc.) Packaging "Peanuts" can be taken to The UPS Store, several locations around Wichita and Derby. Some peanuts are water-soluble and non-toxic. If they melt under running water, you can safely wash them down the sink.

No Non-container plastics - vinyl, toys, hoses, siding, PVC or ABS pipe.

No to anything that is dirty or has food in it. But REMEMBER, PAPER food service, cups and plates, can be tossed into your blender, then put into your compost pile. No plastic tableware:knives, forks, spoons, sporks cannot be recycled at this time.

No frozen food bags, no "crunchy" bags or bags with a seam down the back.

No Hazardous waste (oil, antifreeze, insecticides) These may be taken to the Sedgwick County Household Hazardous Waste facility, 801 Stillwell, Wichita (316) 660-7464.