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Everyone should look at the paper in their office and find an appropriate way to get rid of it by using either a paper shredder, recycling bins or the old trash can. If one needs to file the paper away, they should create a file index of sorts that lists all of the file categories.

Patty Wolf

We think this is key to making recycling stand out and be recognizable by passer-bys.

Jenna Frosch

Originally, we had a lesson on recycling at homemakers. The state was pushing it at the time and I thought it was a great idea, and I am a green person.

Delores Swehla

We need to educate people and provide convenient recycling opportunities.

Aaron Baker

It helps close the loop and support recycling locally to be making stuff out of recycled products.

Carly Wier

I kind of followed that sound, thinking someone somewhere was recycling some glass. I end up meeting Ken Kyle (and) he told me a little bit about his business.

Sean Wilson

I think this was really successful. We?re going to crunch the numbers and produce an action report for the college so they can improve recycling around campus.

Jon Keesecker

I really think this could be a springboard to improve recycling on campus.

Jon Keesecker

Pallet recycling normally requires a lot of physical labor ... but you can earn a fair living doing that.

Chaille Brindley

It's the full circle of recycling.

Matt Maxwell

Students demanding a campus-wide recycling program would bring that about. President Bryant is very interested in what students care about. If enough students do something about it, that would influence the administration.

Don Judd

The theme this year is kind of a recycling theme. So we'll be making a lot of projects out of recycled materials.

Sondra Hines

When I worked in Ames at the recycling center we had two containers - pop cans and two-liter bottles. Now we have seven different sizes in plastic, and they expect us to separate them all out. Do all of that on the same penny.

Mari Vanderwal

It's said that we need to get students actively involved in the process. [The recycling program] would provide a very tangible way to participate If the program would generate funds, can't we use them to pay someone to empty the bins?

Rachel Davis

We see a lot of cardboard, glass, and plastic bottles in commercial garbage bins that should be recycled. We're more than happy to work with businesses to get them started with recycling and we hope they'll cooperate.

Peter Russell

If you partake of a living tree, you should be recycling it.

Andrew Cole

Enhancing the recycling, supplemented by improving degradable packaging, should be the future direction of dealing with one-off tableware pollution.

Tang Saizhen

The blue bag program helps the recycling numbers here at the landfill. We need to be above 25 percent, and the state's goal is 50 percent.

Mark Kunkel

I've seen so much progress. We have come from recycling about 100,000 tons a year 15 years ago to more than 500,000 tons.

Suzanne Jones

I don't think they put a lot of emphasis on it. I didn't even know there was recycling in the dorms until we had to do inventory and I noticed the bin. Then we had to ask about it and we didn't know there was a recycling area until then.

Darrell Johnson

It's a gentle nudge. We want all students to learn the basics of recycling and conservation.

Karen Bryant

We had the most forward-looking and aggressive recycling bill in the country.

Larry Martin

(We) are pleased to see them join Dell and H-P in providing free computer recycling for their customers.

Robin Schneider

Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.

Ted Danson

In its first year of operation, the Denver project has seen an 18 percent increase in recycling.

Lynn Brown

Here, all waste will be viewed as a recycling opportunity.

Beezer Molten

This is the only university I've been to that doesn't have campus-wide recycling. In a way it's embarrassing.

Don Judd

What we've seen in the last couple of years is flat recycling percentages. This Recycling Rewards program is part of an entire strategy to increase the amount of recyclables coming into our [materials recycling] facility.

Karen Fiedler

Fun way to remind folks in our community about the importance of recycling.

Jerry Abramson

Right now we charge a fee to recycle them, but we weren't charging a fee to landfill them. So we're hoping by charging a fee for the land filling of those items, we will encourage more recycling of those items.

George Dreckmann

Tomorrow our paper will be in the recycling bin or worse. These people will still be mourning their dead. And that lasts a lot longer than tomorrow's paper.

David Shribman

I didn't even know we recycled. I just throw all of my trash in the same place. I never saw any signs anywhere that designated a recycling area.

Sue Baranchuk

Our goal is to do better than last year, And to get people excited about recycling and, of course, to beat BYU.

Jay Price

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Chuck Reed

In Le Mars, we collect 12-15 tons of recycling each month.

Mark Kunkel

Up and down my road there's hardly a house that does not have at least one recycling bag outside every week.

John Mckenna

There are many recycling schemes, systems, or approaches throughout the EU.

Bruce Calder

One of the main things about recycling is you are making more room.

Daniel Johnson

I'm very concerned. If we're interested in recycling urban areas, instead of just promoting sprawl, then we need this tool. There's a lot of misunderstanding about it.

Richard Ward

In order to implement recycling, you need funding for a start-up program. The recycling program at Tech does as much as possible with funding, but ultimately it would be awesome if we could pursue recycling further.

Katelyn Keefe

It's for a better cause. It's for increasing recycling and getting trash off the side of the road. Anything that can do that, I think, is a good thing.

Jennifer Perrone

We are proud to be an industry leader in the responsible recycling of old phones.

James Mosieur

I think I can kind of be an instrument in my workplace to help people get a little more conscious about recycling.

Pat Mahoney

Only after We adopt recycling-based economy, we can achieve sustainable development which is of our three countries' national interests.

Xie Zhenhua

This is one of the most innovative programs to enhance recycling that we've seen in a long time.

John Casella

Recycling is one of our most effective tools to protect our environment. We are glad to support efforts to increase recycling in the Nogales community.

Steve Owens

I would like to see the program expanded to include bottles and cans. Paper recycling is great for offices, but truly doesn't meet all of this campus' needs.

Rachel Davis

Over 80 percent of all construction waste was sent to a recycling facility instead of a landfill.

Gillan Taddune

Spain's military establishment still hasn't undergone the democratic recycling that is imperative.

Josu Erkoreka

This for mercury-related products, taking them out of the waste stream and putting them into the recycling stream.

Ann Pistell

We felt that [recycling] was getting kind of a negative connotation and people were getting turned off, so part of Linda's idea was [the Recycling Rewards] program, which I think was a good one. Let's create a positive approach here. We do want people to recycle.

Karen Fiedler

Informal recycling is a very wide-spread activity in poor countries.

Dr. Jutta Gutberlet

I might even be able to educate interested students about recycling, by taking them to a recycling convention this summer.

Jodie Vogler

Every year when we do the budget we look at a number of things including the environment, landfills and recycling. We've decided this is an area that wasn't going anywhere at this time.

Sandra Cooper

The number went down because a lot of cities brought programs to the public where they picked trees up for recycling.

Pat Raglin

No matter who the hauler is, if they haul to Sioux Falls, they should provide recycling collection.

Dick Birk

We look for a rebound due to the recycling of oil money, such as in high-ticket orders from oil-producing nations.

Takehiro Sato

There is no immediate economic benefit. It's just a nice benefit to offset some of the costs we have for our overall recycling program.

Kurt Ferguson

The benefits (of recycling) are obvious. You're not using up space in the landfill. You're putting a natural product back into a compost that can be used in your garden.

John Mullen

That's just a small piece of the puzzle. Remember now, Mid America Recycling isn't taking from here in Des Moines to fill the landfill in eastern Polk County and taking up landfill space.

Bill Stowe

That system has not been working well. It burdens the businesses that are hauling the waste, and yet it's the generators of the waste that really need to be responsible for recycling.

David Pelser

These Christmas tree recycling programs have really taken off in the last 15 years.

Roni Java

The biggest benefit (is)?that a competition allows people to ask questions about recycling without any hang-ups. They have a stake in it, they have ownership in it, so they are going to inform themselves about it.

Lauren Mecham

At that point, we'd stop recycling.

Heidi Adams

Before the scheme we used to occasionally take glass bottles to recycling banks but that was it.

John Mckenna

You can argue we can get rid of recycling and save the city a million dollars, but why don't we try to get rid of the garbage and save the city even more money?

Andrew Goldstein

We are pleased to be part of this campaign as while people are good at recycling their green glass, we know that the recycling of brown and clear glass is less common and we need to make our residents more aware of this, and why it is important.

David Hopper

I think we got a ways to go. I think everyone has a ways to go. I am familiar with the recycling programs at CSU and CU (University of Colorado- Boulder) and I think they both do a really good job.

Darrell Johnson

What's great about the gold recovery in the recycling of discarded computers is the fact that there is no guesswork on the amount of gold you actually have. If it takes 10 computers to recover an ounce of gold, and you want to recover 100 ounces, then you'll need 1000 computers.

James Logan

We just knew (Island Recycling) wasn't using the resource center for what the contract said, and we brought that to the attention of the county. They were doing trash service.

Scott Kouchi

It (UK recycling) probably increases a little each year, because we find newer things to recycle.

Tom Gregory

The city's primary objective is to get a second recycling center ... that would make for a more comprehensive site.

Steve Atkins

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

Pam Shoemaker